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Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…re us. Even though I felt I had no choice, getting arrested was a very big deal for me. The great prayer of my mother and father (especially my father) was twofold. First, that I would be a Christian, and second, that as a black man I would never see the inside of a jail or prison cell. They knew that such places were built really only for me. Only people like me walked the smooth path already angled toward incarcerated spaces. Like children stepp…

Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…If not, why? Is it the music (the genre being very particular to the Anglophone world)? the underlying thought of treating “Muhammad as punk rocker?” BU: What an ignorant question. Anglophone world? Punk is ten times bigger in Kuala Lampur than it ever will be in the UK, France, or Germany. Or America. No, the reason for forming the Dead Bhuttos, and the rush to put a single online was to show, at least cosmetically, that Pakistan was as capable…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

…ews on various news channels, and on Infowars itself. Trump gained a great deal of attention with his Birtherism (the theory that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen), his assertion that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese government to damage the American economy, and claims that Muslims gathered to celebrate 9/11 in New Jersey, all before deciding to run for office. Unlike most conspiracy theorists who spend endless hou…

No Bible-as-State-Book for Tennessee as Legislators Suffer “Symbol Fatigue”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r maybe one could say, state legislatures are finding themselves unable to deal with even softball initiatives like these. Some New Hampshire fourth-graders recently learned this the hard way, when they took their “state raptor” appeal to the New Hampshire legislature. The kids thought the red-tailed hawk would make a great state raptor. But to be fair, New Hampshire already had a state bird. Rep. Christy Bartlett raised this issue, asking “But no…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…r of invasions of Ukraine, Georgia, and Chechnya, user of assassination to deal with defectors, murderer of opponents, likely orchestrator of domestic terrorist attacks in Russia to justify warfare, champion of the Russian Empire directly in opposition to America: it seems strange that he would find American champions on the Christian Right. But they love him because he loves violence. He loves the same violence they crave. And unlike them, he has…

By the Way: Revolting Evangelicals

By Randall Balmer

…, not a right. And most such organizations have seen this as a pretty good deal—as indeed it is. Just to be clear, a pastor (or anyone else) has every right as an individual to engage in political activity—and even to run for political office, as Pat Robertson, Jesse Jackson and Mike Huckabee have done in recent decades. But that does not mean that they can engage in partisan politicking from the pulpit. If these ministers want to do so, fine. But…

African Anglo Male, Obama, Running Against White Anglo Female, Hillary…

By Paula M. Cooey

…rging us to clean up our language as a quick fix? Am I making too big of a deal out of trivial matters? No. I think this is a golden opportunity for meditation, a chance to think long and hard about where we still are as a society, even while we congratulate ourselves on how far we have come. With respect to residual white racism, note that Barack Obama’s father is an African, not an African American, and his mother is a white or Anglo woman from…

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction

By Gary Laderman

…Scott Thill on scientific research suggesting that the drug holds a great deal of therapeutic promise for veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. While Thill unpacks the politics of this research, he also links to another recent article on MDMA in O, The Oprah Magazine with the more sacred-sounding title “Can a Single Pill Change Your Life?” The reportedly transformative and life-altering affects from scientific studies, as well a…

Speaking of Family: When Children of Queer Families Talk About Their Lives

By John Blevins

…“Civil Pact of Solidarity” (“Pacte civil de solidarité” or PaCS for Francophone readers). Under the law that established these PaCS, lesbian and gay couples were specifically forbidden from public adoptions and from access to reproductive technologies that would allow them to become parents. The rationale: to become a coherent, productive French citizen, a child needs the influence of a father and a mother in her or his psychological development….

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…t amounts to little more than “the power of positive thinking” or with any number of programs that bring people together for dialogue across political and religious divides. These problems don’t have convenient “spiritual” solutions. For a set of highly privileged Americans, I can understand why Worthen’s prescriptions might hold a certain attraction. But whatever one’s attitude to metaphysics and religion, it’s necessary to face the truth that Am…