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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…al ideas—the same stuff he tells those who visit his regular Sunday School class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. For example, Carter told the Liberty graduates that “America has abandoned its leadership…as a champion of a clean and healthy environment,” an indirect reference to Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement. He also reminded his audience that America has always had a difficult tim…

Hillary-the-Preacher, and Why Journalists Can’t Let Go of the “Democrats Don’t Get Religion” Story

By Daniel Schultz

…consin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you could attribute the results to any number of factors: economics, race, vote suppression, Clinton’s mistakes, or yes, Russian interference and Comey’s disastrous memo late in the game. The point isn’t that any one of these explanations is good, it’s that they’re all plausible, and need to be reckoned with. So I’m intensely dubious when reading something like this: The big swing states that Clinton lost in Nov…

What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Gorsuch declined to categorize LGBT people as a “class,” that is, as a group who could look to the courts for equal protection. Instead, he answered, “I’ve tried to treat each case and each person as a person—not a ‘this kind of person,’ not a ‘that kind of person.’” While he went on to declare Obergefell “absolutely settled law,” it was unclear just how far Gorsuch believes that landmark decision reaches. Fast forward to…

Atheists of Color Transcend Opposition to Religion and White Atheist Privilege in Working for Social Justice

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…e re-energized secular activism. Yet Black secularists in poor and working class African American communities are especially disdainful of liberal white atheists who bemoan the Religious Right’s grip on the Trump White House and public policy, yet remain silent on the racist criminalization of communities of color or rising homelessness among Black and Latinx folk. Secular social justice is a way of defining and articulating these critical differe…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…al ideas—the same stuff he tells those who visit his regular Sunday School class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. For example, Carter told the Liberty graduates that “America has abandoned its leadership…as a champion of a clean and healthy environment,” an indirect reference to Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement. He also reminded his audience that America has always had a difficult tim…

Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…n in George Orwell’s 1984, the gag order would effectively condemn working-class women to incomplete and/or inaccurate information while middle-class women with private health coverage would continue to be empowered with the resources and information to control their bodies. Women of color overwhelmingly rely on Title X-funded clinics for comprehensive care and counseling on family planning. According to California Latinas for Reproductive Justice…

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

…—not to mention arcane puberty rituals straight out of an anthropology textbook. Program title page, Sixth Veiled Prophet Festival, 1883, produced by the Compton Litho Company The year 2017 marks the 135th instantiation of what has long been known in St. Louis as the Veiled Prophet Parade, a public event hosted by a secret society founded in 1878. Organized around a gun-toting, masked mystic (the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan), the VP Organization,…

Paul for the People: John Dominic Crossan Imagines a “Letter to the Americans” In His New Video Series

By Peter Laarman

…way to ask this: Can you envision a time when more than a relatively small number of Christians will actively challenge and oppose the imperial project? Or is not so much a matter of numbers as it is of intensity? At this point we have to take with equal seriousness both human evolution and the core of the biblical tradition—or either one separately, as I take the same message away from each. For Jesus and Paul, it is never just about being agains…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…Reading his 2010 sermon again, a vivid memory comes to me—Isaac lifting a book from his desk, manically flipping through its pages, finding the passage and reading this story to me while he stands by his crowded bookshelf, smiling the whole time. As the memory plays in my mind, Isaac gets to the end—His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, If you will, you can become all fire—then he closes the book, looks up at me, speechles…

The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

From Greek philosophers to womanist theologians, western thinkers have struggled to make sense of the problem of evil and divine vindication in light of the reality of human-induced suffering. As I sat and watched Wonder Woman just one day after its big debut, I could not help but think that the entire film was a modern-day attempt to work out this deeply philosophic and theological problem. What is evil? Why does God, or the cosmic order, allow…