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More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…rientation, gender identity, disability or geography. We support religious freedom. Religious freedom means that each individual has the right to exercise their own beliefs and the right not to have others’ beliefs forced upon them. We believe no employer has the right to deny the women who work for them basic health care. Individuals must have the right to accept or reject the principles of their own faith without legal restrictions. No single…

Prominent Evangelical Pundit Accuses Obama of “Abusing” Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…obscured by reckless, sloppy and somewhat McCarthyite behavior” by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.) Lee Fang, the Center for American Progress blogger who broke the story, has more details on the funding this week and told me that the Chamber’s use of foreign funding for political attack ads “is unprecedented.” Anything else? I asked Wehner, aside from going after that well-known friend of Jesus, the Chamber of Commerce? His replies incl…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…Jefferson himself was interesting and challenging. Your book reminded me that Jefferson was one of those great Enlightenment polymaths. He saw himself as equipped to do anything, any challenge, whether it was archaeology or politics or editing the Gospels. Except freeing the slaves. He wasn’t up for that challenge. That’s something I realized only later, that he is excused as a man of his time when we talk of the ownership and enslavement of men,…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…three separate times, pairing it with the terms human nature, rule of law, freedom, and peace, thus making it a major theme. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” No doubt, Stephen Miller’s language was intended, generally speaking, to invoke these lo…

Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right

By Jake Johnson

…f doing. Rather, they teach us how to imagine (what they consider to be) a better, more just version of our world—though in the case of the Christian Right that version of the world tends to be “more just” only for those who believe and look like they do. Truth isn’t a currency in these economies. This act of lying is what’s important. It opens up space for possibility. Musicals and religion both do it with ease. There’s something special about th…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…they understand this as a public health intervention addressing the root causes of racial inequality. And there’s also an important difference between these protests and those in previous eras. They are decidedly multi-racial. The demand to defund the police and reinvest in social goods that address social problems while redefining safety strikes at the heart of the racial contract that citizens in Minneapolis and across the nation are attempting…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…he POTUS declare his vigorous support for gay marriage (to resounding applause and boos) and the religious right declare its vigorous support of Chick-fil-A (to resounding applause and boos). The old hymn “Sweet By and By,” beloved in Southern Gospel circles, promises that “in the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.” During this crucial iteration of the culture wars, which never seem to be quite fully won nor yet fully lost, Ha…

In Qur’an Burning We’re All Losers

By Julie Ingersoll

…ntly, and the simplistic use of it seemed too manipulative. Now I’m beginning to wish it were true. What if our enemies really did just hate us because we believe in freedom? Get a grip people—maybe it’s not too late….

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…itration boards, and ineffective external (non-police) review boards being used to release accused police persons from justice. ○ An end to the standard of reasonableness that allows police officers to shoot to kill Black and other racial minorities on the officer’s assertion that they feared for their life. ○ Pressure on insurance companies to demand changes in police procedures and policies used by police departments that consistently lead to hi…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s toys, without acknowledging the spiritual authority of believers as they use them in the world and bring their experience and insight into religious institutions misunderstands the radically participatory, dialogical, and collaborative nature of a contemporary Western culture informed by digital social technologies. It inadvertently reinforces a line between “faith” and “life” that believers now routinely transgress. Bible Mash-Up Where religiou…