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Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…zus and Ramona and ended with Ramona’s World, published in 1999. The eight books span from my mother’s generation to my daughters’. A journalist friend, a stair-step older than I am, said she’s kept the series alongside first-edition art books and feminist theology. I grew up with Ruth Chew’s magic and Phyllis A. Whitney’s mysteries, but I found Beverly Cleary’s Ramona while raising two girls. The world Cleary described for and with Ramona was a g…

Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed from Office” editorial, there’s been a great deal of buzz in the pundit class over whether Trump, after a highly publicized impeachment trial, needs to be concerned with possible defections in his white evangelical base. From an analytical standpoint, the buzz is mere noise, horse race politics nonsense from people who don’t understand that most white evangelicals have long since come to regard CT as “too liberal.” As John Stoehr observed on RD…

Trump’s SOTU Address Was a Christian Nationalist Dog Whistle

By Andrew L. Seidel

…to codify Christian privilege and elevate Christians to a special, favored class. All others will be second-class citizens. As Chrissy Stroop noted in her Religion Dispatches piece on the SOTU, these ideas have been mainstreamed due to the influence of the radical Christian Reconstructionist movement. Right now, Christian nationalists are raging against the dying of their privilege. Trump’s State of the Union encapsulated this rage. And, as Americ…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…to membership status, trans folk in the church are to be treated as second-class members, in much the same way that Black people were treated until 1978. Trans people can get baptized and confirmed, but priesthood and temple ordinations remain tied to “birth sex.” Even attempts to socially or medically transition will now lead to other significant restrictions on membership. It’s important to note that in previous versions of the handbook such res…

‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

By Tony Keddie

…aven. Eunuchs, in Pliny the Elder’s censorious words, belonged to a “third class of half-males.” The satirist Lucian from Syria concurred, classifying eunuchs as “something composite, hybrid and monstrous, outside of human nature.” Some Jewish authors like Philo and Josephus were also quick to degrade eunuchs as a detested class of gender-ambiguous people who were able neither “to disseminate seed nor to receive it.” Since eunuchs were unable to p…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…de to minority status within the population at large. In an invaluable new book titled After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging, Yale theologian Willie James Jennings brings needed attention to the ways in which the White Way of Thinking perpetuates itself in academic settings where what’s called “rigor” is really an unexamined allegiance to a certain ideal of white masculinist self-sufficiency. Jennings gives eloquent voice to his own anger and…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…nisha Sinha explains while discussing Heather Cox Richardson’s fascinating book, How the South Won the Civil War. Serwer’s piece aligns with the way many scholars and public commentators discuss White Supremacy now. The terminology is a provocative way to focus on how society is a place in which whites benefit from the exploitation of BIPOC. It also attends to the—often conservative—narratives that make this status-quo seem so natural to most whit…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…Americans in general, but specifically Black Americans, to their subhuman class. The trauma of historically being relegated to a subhuman class can manifest itself through 14 generations. No matter how callous we become to our individual trauma, our grandparents’ and our parents’ trauma (especially) can continue to impact us in profound ways unless we take steps to heal. There is a tender spot on every callous. Therapy, art, healthcare—those are…

Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…brew, offer extensive analysis of a very problematic relationship. Cohen’s book makes use of recently declassified Israeli and IDF documents and thus broadens and deepens the analysis. Of course, Benny Morris’ The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, first published in 1988, made significant news by debunking many Zionist myths of Palestinian deportations and village liquidations in 1948 (though in his 2004 revised edition he argue…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…istian. The conservative bloc on this Supreme Court is dividing our nation along religious lines. If it continues on this path, Christians will be a favored, privileged class; non-Christians will be second-class citizens. Chief Justice John Roberts needs to get his house in order….