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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…nominated to maintain the goodwill of white evangelicals in order to get Trump re-elected. It worked, kind of. Although he lost the election by seven million votes, 84% of white evangelicals voted for him—a 7% increase from 2016. Moreover, the rush of abortion laws in 2021 coincides with Joe Biden’s first term as president and the surprising Democratic majority in the Senate (not to mention their control of the House). Whereas in 2018, when Trump…

100 Years Later, Just Weeks After OK Bans Critical Race Theory, the Tulsa Race Massacre is Still Marginal History

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…r of George Floyd, even as local, state and federal agencies continue to struggle with the appropriate response to police brutality and the continued deaths of unarmed African Americans at the hands of law enforcement. Also, as Tulsans of all backgrounds commemorate and memorialize the events of May and June of 1921, the Oklahoma legislature passed HB 1775, signed into law by Governor Kevin Stitt, which bans the use of critical race theory in publ…

Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”

By Garibaldi

…Israel, none other than Rabbi Shmuley Boteach interviewed Dr. Oz for the Jerusalem Post. Asked why he chose to come to Israel Dr. Oz replied that it was “an effort to better understand the source of the universal Jewish values that have so positively impacted on the world and the place from which they stem.” Is it really necessary to visit Israel to better understand Jewish values? Can’t one just as easily become acquainted with Jewish values, rig…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…/academic, and total competence and signiﬁcantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and externalizing problem behavior than their age-matched counterparts …” Being a lesbian, Gartrell obviously has a vested interest in those ﬁndings, right? Maybe, but her research has been backed up by the likes of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Social Workers, “who all…

“Let’s Get in Formation”: Beyoncé’s Spiritual Call for Black Resistance

By Yazmine Nichols

…nsgresses boundaries. Black women gyrate in what looks like a “big house,” breaking the rules in “Massa’s” quarters and desecrating white-designated spaces. Similarly, Beyoncé herself desecrates pop culture. She takes the colloquial term “slay” and turns it into an anthem of resistance. To “slay” means to dance, it means to live, it means getting in formation and surviving. It means having “negro noses with Jackson Five nostrils,” it means eating…

Lessons From a Spiritual Failure

By Joanna Brooks

…ou have to dispense? First, take a digital Sabbath. I need to have time to read and reflect and connect with people instead of a machine. Second, I’ve learned the hard way that many people who react vitriolically to something I’ve written are in great pain. As much as I’d like them to see me as human, I must try to remember that they are human too. Third, I try and be open to criticism, which is sometimes based in truth. Finally, I realize I can’t…

Time is on Our Side

By Amina Wadud

…it? Between suhur and iftar (which means “break fast” or the meal at fast breaking time) sun set, there can be no consumption: no food, no drink—not even water, no smoking, for those who smoke, and no marital sex, for those who are married or sexually active. That’s a pretty big challenge if you think about it. Me, I’m a grazer. I tend not to eat more than 2 meals a day but I eat all the time a little bit at a time, like animals in the field: gra…

Sacrifice, Suffering, and Rick Santorum

By Ivan Strenski

…at one’s principles—religious or not? Could it be, for example, that Santorum’s distrust of science, such as his opposition to evolutionary theory, dismissal of climate change and such has bled into his personal life? Did he sneer at medical statistics in favor of throwing up his arms in surrender to “Thy will be done”? Second, I simply cannot fathom why it would be so important for a woman of Karen Santorum’s age—48 years old—to have risked conc…

Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?

By Arri Eisen

…g thinking, these same parts of the brain have been implicated in language rule and other rule retrieval. The researchers also found that sacred values thinking activated the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain. Perhaps not too much surprise there. Why does any of this matter? It goes back to why we believe what we do; the military strategists, the politicians. People make decisions—and act—based on their beliefs. The more we understand ab…

Missing the Extra Point: The Real Cause of Tebow Fever

By Carter Turner

…ng Tebow, but want to believe he is. There’s a lot of angst in our country today—uncertainty about the economy, environment, politics, and international stability—and many people simply want to believe God is paying attention and capable and willing to offer a hand. If God can help a faithful quarterback win games, surely he can help a faithful nation free itself from its seemingly intractable problems; or a faithful person find a job, have childr…