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Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…rtant point is that it isn’t innocuous. It causes the heart to become calloused and creates deep chasms between individuals that can only be crossed with self-reflection, because, as Smith states, “A child’s personality grows by reaching out to others, by feeling identified with them, by acknowledging the common dignity of all men.” Calls for education reform and “protecting” children reside at the core of Christian nationalism because when childr…

Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist

By John D. Carlson

…moral valence of war, the pursuit of peace through force, and the noble causes American wars have defended. He forcefully affirmed that some evils—Nazism, al-Qaeda—require coercive force to confront. Speaking especially to Europeans, Obama left no room for presidential pacifism. (The German Marshall Fund reported that over 70% of Europeans disagree—about 50% strongly—that war sometimes is necessary to achieve justice.) He lamented that “in many c…

Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…ever,” an echo of both the enduring significance of this English hymn to African American culture, and its apocryphal history as a melody born on a slave ship. As the often told story goes, “Amazing Grace” was first published by the Christian minister and former slave ship captain John Newton in 1779 . In a popular Youtube clip, the gospel singer Wintley Phipps recounts that it was on a ship packed with suffering human cargo that “many believe [Ne…

Do the Arguments Against Bathroom Equality Hold Water?

By Patricia Miller

…libertarian Peter Schuck calls “[p]rotecting the dignity of transgender Americans” a “noble cause,” but argues that by skipping the usual notice-and-comment process, the Obama administration “aborted a much-needed public debate over whether identity-based bathroom use can and should be regulated as a legal right, or merely left as an option.” But despite the fact that Schuck professes to believe transgender equality is a noble cause, he unnecessar…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…tate officials have said they believe the policy to be illegal and will refuse to comply. On Tuesday, the news dropped that Texas officials had opened “child abuse” investigations into parents who support their children in accessing age-appropriate gender-affirming medical care. They started with a state CPS employee, referred to as “Jane Doe,” who has a 16-year-old transgender daughter (“Mary Doe”) and says she feels “betrayed by my state and the…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…ities is disproportionately focused on the modern-contemporary and the “American.” Contra these currents, we refuse to cede or constrict “relevance” to presentist concerns. Rigid construals of “relevance,” including the tokenization of the present, fail to encourage decolonization across periods and disciplines. Decolonizing is a matter of justice. It starts with correcting the historic marginalization of researchers and subjects that are not cish…

Philly Gives Doctors Wide Leeway with Religious Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…short of the current standard of care for adolescent patients. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that adolescent patients be counseled proactively about contraceptive use as part of routine exams, particularly about emergency contraceptives and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), because of their potential to dramatically reduce teen pregnancy. The AAP “encourage[…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…pensity toward aggression and violence in the Southern imaginary.” But the use of visceral, brutal imagery in American hymnody flows in part from a much earlier and more formative force in American religious life: the widely influential hymns of Dissenting Anglican Isaac Watts (author of such graphic texts as “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and “Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed”). However, given Harrison’s hefty task of clarifying the significance…

WikiLacks: Did Clinton Campaign Mock Catholics? Not Really

By Patricia Miller

…nt of Catholic Democrats. “Catholics are all too keenly aware of both the damage of sexual abuse on victims—sometimes life threatening—as well as the connection between sexual abuse and the abuse of power.” It’s an irony that I’m sure will be lost on the Trump campaign—as well as his “Catholic” supporters….

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…Kings (2014). In response to this criticism, Scott hired actors of Arab, African, and Indian descent for Killing Jesus. The Lebanese-American actor Haaz Sleiman was even cast as Jesus. But here’s the rub: while Scott hired people of color to play Jesus and his disciples, he hired white actors of European descent to portray the Roman elites, Herodian kings (Kelsey Grammer—Frasier himself—is Herod!), Jewish high priests, and the traitor Judas Iscari…