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Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…ctivist garb. Harris meets Rand meets Griffith. Bush’s Trix Doctrine viz. “freedom is god’s gift to humanity,” morphs into “freedom is the technological imperative” slash “technology is freedom’s imperative.” Hence reactionary discourses surrounding “open government,” “big data,” and unprecedented levels of bipartisan “public-private partnership” in which the individual as individual is finally stripped of agency and any idea of personal faith is…

Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…g papered over or rejected. It includes an adherence to the moral vision encoded in the Ten Commandments and expanded and deepened in the New Testament: a rejection of violence and cruelty, a deep suspicion of worldly wealth and power, and a heavy stress on chastity. It includes a commitment to the creeds of the ancient world—Nicene, Apostolic, Athanasian—and to the idea that a church, however organized and governed, should guarantee and promulgat…

The New Values Voters: Progressive Women

By Cynthia Hess

…to Obama’s words and campaign indicated that Americans are calling for a “new politics of the common good.” Progressive Women and Values This approach to politics and public life is not exactly new. For the past several years, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research has interviewed over 100 progressive women leaders and activists working as community organizers who are, in many ways, living out a vision for politics and public life that resonat…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…phenomenon one of six outcomes along a spectrum, ranging, according to the New York Times “from outright rejection to more nuanced reasonings” (declaring, in other words, whether or not a Catholic is permitted to devote themselves to it or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled r…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…o the gym. The funerals slowed or stopped and the neighborhoods changed, a new kind of AIDS body modification came into being. No more KS and wasting syndrome on the street, now we have the Crixovan Look: sunken eyes and a pot belly. Guys who are HIV can bulk up the way the steroid-pure cannot. Now they’re larger than ever. Some men got their power back. We could not, did not face what we had really endured. Thirty years later we have still not f…

Gay Ain’t the New Black, But…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…y. Turning citizens into “intimidated, fearful and helpless subjects,” according to West, is what it means to be a Nigger. For this reason, Rev. Sekou argues convincingly that while Gay may not be the new black, with the passing of Prop 8 and other state constitutional amendments proscribing the lives and liberties of our gay brothers and sisters, “Gays Are the New Niggers!”…

The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…he state of New York has eliminated its entire kosher inspection division. New York Rep. Peter King is promising to use his new position as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold hearings about Islam in America. Record numbers of Brits are converting to Islam, according to a new survey. Opponents of Scientology in Chicago are fighting for the right to protest outside the Church of Scientology. Atheists, agnostics, and humanis…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…the politics of individual board members “play no role” in its decisions. News of the new venue came in a Jan. 15 email to members of Congress. Heitkamp and fellow board member former Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) provided members with new details on the event and location. (Hultgren is a longtime Family insider who has met with anti-LGBTQ+ leaders on trips paid for by The Family.) In their email, Heitkamp and Hultgren announced that the NPB Foundat…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…uld be considered nonsectarian. The results of the study, presented in the new report Reading, Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12, were decidedly mixed. On the one hand, eleven school districts did quite well, offering courses that were careful not to promote one religious perspective over all others, and which encouraged critical thinking, careful communication skills, and creativity. Twenty-eight districts had co…

“I had been part of the problem of Islamophobia”: Pastor Danny Cortez On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Conservative evangelical pastor, Danny Cortez, changed his mind on LGBTQ equality. The first person he told was his teenage son, Drew, who moments later came out as gay. That moment changed their lives forever and brought one of them close to death. In interviews with each of them, we learn about the triumphs and troubles that followed. (Subscribe and listen to the…