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Commies, Blacks, Jews, the UCC and Other Threats to America

By Daniel Schultz

…re afraid of the religious left. It means we’re doing our job. And just in case anyone missed the number of religious progressive groups endorsing the rally, here’s a list culled from One Nation site. Their list of endorsers is pretty long, so I apologize if I missed somebody: Rainbow PUSH Coalition The Shalom Center Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Sikh Coalition The Religious Institute The Community Church of NY Unitarian Univ…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…ans are Muslims too (and here you should read, tongue in cheek: white American, because obviously African-Americans are Americans). In fact, the origin of Islam in America is through Muslim slaves brought over hundreds of years ago from Africa. Some estimates are that as many as one third of the slaves brought here from Africa were Muslims. The record is emphatic: royalty, scholars, businessmen, Africans from all walks of life were caught up in th…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…is at stake and this power comes with all manner of political and ideological implications. Thus, there is a vested interest on the part of the religious and political right in keeping LGBT persons silent and subjugated. Whereas political rallying on issues like same-sex marriage and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell serve to maintain some ground on the preservation of anti-gay cultural ideology, the intermittent reinforcement of violent attack…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…ogressive values like support for reproductive rights to win back working class Catholics. Krueger says that the best political way forward for the Democrats is what he calls a “50-state/all constituencies” strategy that includes a strong Catholic outreach component. He notes that Hillary Clinton’s outreach to Catholics was notably less robust than Barack Obama’s. She didn’t recruit prominent Catholic backers the way that Obama did and skipped imp…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…the PTL network with half a dozen employees in a former furniture store in 1974. By 1986 PTL had annual revenues of $129 million, 2500 employees, a 2300-acre theme park, Heritage USA, and a private satellite network that reached into fourteen million homes in the US. That year, six million people visited Heritage USA. Jim and Tammy lived in luxury, buying vacation homes, expensive cars and clothes, and traveling first class with an entourage. The…

Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army

By Peter Montgomery

…theological dividing line between good and evil, but also legitimate political fodder because they say it is a source of his collectivist, even Marxist, worldview. And it demonstrates his lack of commitment to the “quintessential American concept” of individual rights. Barton’s theory boils down to this: if it weren’t for revolution-supporting preachers and their doctrine of individual salvation, individual rights would not have been incorporated…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…are praising the Pope for his leadership at the CDF during the time these cases came through, it would do them well to remember that this issue has been before the church long before 2001. This was the year that these sexual abuse cases were turned over to the CDF for Church oversight, headed by the leader of the CDF, Cardinal Ratzinger. Before it was renamed the CDF, this commission was called the Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…s in the U.S. for comparing their struggles to the struggles of women, African Americans, and GLBTQ citizens. On a global scale, however, secularism most certainly is an issue of civil rights and of human rights. And it’s important to note that the suppression of religious dissent online is being carried out not just by government authorities but also by private corporations. During the Innocence riots, for instance, Google restricted YouTube acc…

My Business, Myself: Piercing the Corporate Veil

By Howard M. Friedman

…n it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?” In the Affordable Care Act cases, some courts have avoided the difficult issue of whether a business has religious conscience rights by instead concluding that the business is so closely identified with its owners that it may assert the owners’ religious objections as its own. This idea—that a corporation and its owners should be treated as the same person—is a well-known concept in corporat…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…dren equally.” Does He? Sure. But it’s certainly not reflective in evangelical teachings. Fix that. I can tell you that Christo-centric Instagram pages would be wise to not play the safe side by clinging to “Christ would want us to unite…” jargon. No. If unity is truly the end goal, it cannot come without first the acknowledgment of wrongdoing and the understanding that peace does not equal passivity. Choose a side. White churches such as Hillsong…