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Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…r and wounded seven people before shooting himself in the head at a Carson City, Nevada restaurant in 2011; Seung-Hui Cho, a Christian, Korean American who killed 30 people and wounded 15 at Virginia Tech in 2007 before turning the gun on himself; Jiverly Wong, a Buddhist, Vietnamese American who killed 13 people (himself included) and wounded four in Binghamton, New York in 2009; John Allen Muhammad, the Islamic, African American “Beltway Sniper,…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…he deciding factors was Truman’s sincere belief in the accuracy and historicity of biblical narrative and prophecy. In 1953, only a year after he left the presidency, Truman affirmed explicitly his biblical understanding of the United States’ recognition of Israel. In a conversation at New York City’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism, Truman was introduced as “the man who helped create the State of Israel….

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…ther longtime anti-gay activist, protested gay marriage at San Francisco’s City Hall, where they were arrested. Marcavage is the head of an entity called Repent America. In a February 2005 interview with the Philadelphia City Paper, Marcavage declared that “Homosexuals are to be put to death,” and “The wages of sin is death.” He went on: “But I want to make it clear that I’m not advocating the independent killing of homosexuals… I’m saying that th…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…d the trustees who supported her. General Theological Seminary in New York City, once known as a finishing school for future bishops, was engulfed in a similar but even more public battle in the fall of 2014 after struggling financially for years. While sideshows like these play on in the background, the Episcopal Church continues to hemorrhage members. No wonder Jefferts Schori said thanks but no thanks to a second term as Presiding Bishop. Who w…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…hich functioned as the center for teacher training, greatly augmented the number of yoga teachers who received official training in Iyengar Yoga and became the headquarters from which to disseminate the Iyengar system. Today, there are thousands of Iyengar Yoga teachers and millions of practitioners in over seventy countries across the world. Some yoga advocates and pop culture critics have suggested that popularized yoga reflects only the impuls…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ove rhetoric. The disbelief and outrage that African Americans had the audacity to believe in a Supreme Being that would punish America for its treatment of Black people seemed implausible—or worse, “hate speech.” To be Black however means that long-suffering and forgiveness are the only acceptable modes of religious response, as witnessed in the aftermath of the Mother Emmanuel shootings in 2015. The dominant narrative has focused on the survivin…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…rio writes, “Thank you truckers for your compassion, love, courage and tenacity. I, along with many of my friends, greatly appreciate what you are doing for humanity worldwide……and the ‘walls of parliament came tumbling down’ – just like the biblical story of Jericho. It is time as prophesied, for the old to end and the new earth, the new way with freedom to begin. God Bless you all!” And referencing their tools a donor from southern Michigan says…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…ent Trump has an interesting sex life, to put it mildly. He seems to enjoy multiple partners. I hope that if there are any paternities involved, that he and other men like him who enjoy multiple partners, that post-Roe, we track our reproductive behavior so that it’s not just women who get stuck with these children and the shame of having borne them. Men should learn to either be ashamed or take some responsibility. This whole notion that women ha…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…e February 18 against inhuman prison conditions. Kurds in Syria’s northern city of Qamishli cried, “honor our fallen!” on March 12, anniversary of Kurdish deaths at state hands in 2004 and 2008. Wielding the microphone over the throng of fifteen hundred was a woman, Harvene Awsi, a representative in one of Syria’s Kurdish parties. In ringing tones, she called for repeal of emergency laws, release of prisoners, and freedom. The crowd chanted—The pe…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…’s meeting last month with more than 1,000 evangelical leaders in New York City, Wehner pointed to the “problematic” embrace of Trump by evangelical luminaries like Jerry Falwell, Jr., Franklin Graham, and James Dobson who recently vouched for Trump’s born-again status before saying he couldn’t confirm for sure Trump’s conversion. More than just an embrace, Trump’s support from this motley crew of evangelical politicos helped clear the path for hi…