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“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…ages of a torched CVS as if it were a dying human being. In warmer months, New Bethlehem Baptist Church, among others, led walks to ward off the drug activity that is the only real option for survival for many in areas where police can’t—or won’t—keep them safe. In Baltimore, symbolic gestures on the pulpit are best complemented by concrete actions in our streets. In coming years the black church’s role in the struggle for justice might be less pi…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…fight to define what is protected by the First Amendment religion clauses. CNN is reporting that a federal judge has ruled a Missouri State law prohibiting is picketing and protesting outside military funerals is unconstitutional. The challenge was brought by the Westboro Baptist Church and its pastor Fred Phelps, who were the target of the law. In the 1990s, Phelps and members of his church began attending funerals of gays who had died from AIDS,…

Texas Court Rules Against Polygamist Raid

By Diane Winston

…arsay piled up in place of real evidence. Other commentators agreed. Noted CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: “It was difficult to find out what was going inside that compound, and there was certainly ample grounds for suspicion, But it’s a good thing that the courts insist on a very high bar for the decision to remove children from their parents.” As expected, comments on the blogosphere runs the gamut; but most support the court’s decision. Some because it a…

Is Evangelicalism Too Nice?

By Eric C. Miller

…d interpretation. Both believe that Christian faith requires action in the world. But while Evans emphasizes the “nice” elements of the gospel, Darling fixates on the mean stuff. He then insists that the mean stuff be manifest in policy. The conflation of orthodox belief and discriminatory social policy is likely to be detrimental to Christian witness in an increasingly tolerant age. There’s absolutely no reason why the one should necessitate the…

RDGenerations: Religion in the Academy

By Lucia Hulsether

…can be a headache when deep interpretive conflicts come up. But that’s the world we live in; sometimes we can use a classroom like a laboratory to explore them. LH: Exactly—your last point hits the core of my reasoning for studying religion. If nothing else, I can come up with sociological questions in class and think about how religious commitments affect the lives of my classmates. Because isn’t that the point of Religious Studies? This probably…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…can, mentioning the former Massachusetts governor by name more than sixty times in the first one hundred pages. While Huckabee doesn’t have anything particularly nice to say about Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, or John McCain—the others barely rate a mention—it is Romney who personifies everything that is wrong with the Republican Party. It’s clear that Huckabee resents Romney’s wealth and the millions of dollars he pumped into his own campaign. H…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…TV, we admit it. But we’ve watched enough to know that the list-makers at Beliefnet missed our favorite in this odd category. They forgot about reality television’s most charismatic Christian, ex-Run-DMC rap star, Reverend Run. In MTV’s Run’s House, the Rev lives with his big, blended family in New Jersey. It’s part hip-hop, part Brady Bunch. And he sermonizes from the bathtub. Bet he would have given a heck of an inaugural invocation too……

Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy

By Nick Street

…he openly gay chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum Foundation in New York City, as Secretary of the Navy. Early in his campaign, Obama promised to dismantle “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” the sloppy compromise the Clinton administration cobbled together after its unskillful effort to repeal the ban on openly gay servicemen and -women inspired conservative revolt in Congress and the military establishment. While Obama’s timetable for allowing qu…

Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

…p campaign. L’chaim! Mazel Tov Cocktail 1 sugar cube or 1 tsp 2:1 simple syrup 2 dashes Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub 1 orange wedge 1 brandied Rainier cherry (pitted) 2 oz Slivovitz This fiery take on the old-fashioned Old Fashioned is eager to grab control of global markets and pull the strings of vulnerable governments everywhere. Put the sugar, Hellfire bitters, orange and cherry into a whiskey glass and, while inhaling loudly through you…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…rn-again Christian Kirk Cameron, along with evangelist Ray Comfort, led a crusade at college campuses around the United States and Canada, distributing free altered copies of Origin of Species. Because Origin is in the public domain, Comfort was legally able to add to the book his own new 50-page introduction, in which he quotes from Mein Kampf in order to link Darwin to Adolf Hitler, accuses Darwin of being sexist, and argues falsely that there a…