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A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…, noticing the dramatic, drumroll sounds that preceded the announcement of breaking news, and hearing Wolf Blitzer say, “And CNN can now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, will become the President-Elect of the United States…” I read on the screen “Barack Obama Elected President” and felt the pandemonium of celebration around me. The palpable energy that had until that moment felt like an undercurrent became a gushing waterfall, some of whic…

Rick Warren’s Biblical Blowback

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ble to eliminate the indigenous peoples from the land. Some places, like Jerusalem itself, were not taken until much later, during the first unified campaigns under King David, who renamed the city after he took it, as “David’s City.” Why, then, were the children of Israel incapable of completing a God-ordained genocide? Not for moral reasons, oddly enough. No, the real reason is revealed in the next book, the book of Judges. The book of Judges te…

RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…sert that some action is cruel, do I mean simply that I consider it to be cruel or do I mean that it is in fact cruel? Most of us, believers and nonbelievers, mean the latter. This position is called the objectivity of values and C.S. Lewis considered it, and not belief in God, to be the core of a religious orientation. The opposite position, that people invent values, that man is the measure of all things, in other words, is scarcely imaginable….

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…stian cultures? I attended my first Christian music festival, the Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, in 1998. I was already in graduate school and knew I’d end up writing about Christian conservatives. I attended with three friends (no one was a Christian), and we were outsiders at the concert. There was a capacity crowd, and I remember the crowd standing up and singing along to the opening act. Since none of us was a Christian rock fan, we stuck out bec…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…a Van Halen; his travelogue through Muslim America, Blue-Eyed Devil, as he searches for the true identity of Nation of Islam founder W.D. Fard, and his autobiography, Impossible Man. It’s easier to understand the unease MMK causes when you consider his work together. The Taqwacores was seen as inflammatory by dominant Muslim-American voices when it emerged, packed as it is with drinking, drug use, sex, and Sunni-Shi’ah friendship. But it undeniabl…

Religious Groups Counter Evangelical Opposition To Equality In Immigration Reform

By Sarah Posner

…merican citizens cannot sponsor their partners for citizenship. “The only true pro-family bill is one that keeps all families together,” said Rachel Tiven, executive director of the Immigration Equality Action Fund. That’s apparently not persuasive to the “pro-family” leaders who are holding their support for immigration reform hostage because they believe certain families are “unbiblical.” (The conservative evangelical bloc also supports provisi…

‘Centrist’ Advocates of ‘Common Ground’ Endorse Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Bill

By Sarah Posner

…of the other Casey amendment endorsers — including Sider and Christianity Today’s editor David Neff, both recently endorsed the Manhattan Declaration, which asserts that reproductive rights are inimical to religious liberty. That “liberty” obviously requires, for them, legislation that restricts other people’s rights to supposedly preserve theirs. At the unveiling of the Manhattan Declaration last month, Sider told me, “I think that the evangelic…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…t behind that curtain and we sat on folding chairs, and I remember being struck by how small she was and how powerful her hands were, despite her size, and that she was wearing sandals in February in Washington. (Laughter.) We began to talk, and she told me that she knew that we had a shared conviction about adoption being vastly better as a choice for unplanned or unwanted babies. And she asked me—or more properly, she directed me—to work with he…

Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs

By Shalom Goldman

…l media, the photos of the blue-painted demonstrators were seen around the world. The conflict at Bilin revolves around disputes over the West Bank separation barrier—what many Israelis call the ‘security fence’ and what Palestinians refer to as the ‘racial segregation wall.’ The section of the barrier that runs through Bilin separates the villagers from their farming land. The town’s villagers and their political supporters took their case throug…

Film Follows Teen Exiles from Polygamous Sect

By Becky Garrison

…reached the conclusion separately that it wasn’t right for us. It was a struggle and very difficult, especially living in Utah. Leaving one’s religion is much more than not just going to church on Sunday when you have a church such as the LDS faith, which is part of a community and family. Without knowing it, Jenny and I were helping a lot of people who were looking to leave. They would come to us and ask questions and we were able to help them t…