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Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ompany even closed a Canadian store that voted for one—but even without an official union, workers taking collective action on the job are protected by labor law. On the picket line and in Bentonville, in conference calls and statements to the media, the workers have charged that the company retaliates against workers who speak up about their conditions by cutting their hours or changing their schedules. They’ve demanded a halt to such actions by…

Archbishops Try to Hold it Together, Order Re-Vote on Women Bishops

By Joanna Brooks

…space for minority perspectives and what emerges, really, is a concern for numbers. As one of the authors of the Times letter, Tom Sutcliffe, wrote elsewhere, “I absolutely do not want to see the Church of England ending up as a result of our in my view correct determination to include women in the ordained ministry at all levels with an even smaller footprint. I do not want the Church to vote to shrink more, and there is no doubt that the ordinat…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…live tweeted from Gaza. Hacker collective Anonymous tied its disruption of official Israeli Twitter accounts to its intervention against Mubarak’s authoritarianism. Among celebrities, too, there were consequences. Stevie Wonder, a “messenger of peace” and fundraiser for the IDF, canceled a concert for the latter’s benefit. Kim Kardashian, whose prayers of sympathy for Israelis under threat of Hamas’ indiscriminate rocket fire, drew anger, uglines…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…copy of the legislation to the federal registrar, so the law didn’t become official. Okay, so that’s kind of an absurd situation with comedic potential. But then Jon Stewart did a bit where he pretended to be Dick Molpus putting the form in the “mailbox,” which was really a paper shredder, because… Molpus is likely a racist, I gather was the idea. It turns out, though, that the real Dick Molpus has been a champion of civil rights in Mississippi,…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…6. Election-year media scrutiny discloses lingering LDS racism, prompting official statement from the LDS Church. Racist comments defending the LDS Church’s century-long ban on black priesthood ordination by BYU religion professor Randy Bott appear in the Washington Post, prompting embarrassment among rank-and-file LDS people and a statement from LDS Church headquarters acknowledging past racism and suggesting that there are no doctrinal grounds…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

Did you catch the 14th Annual Official NFL Super Bowl Gospel Celebration on the Friday before Super Bowl XLVII? Yeah, me neither. In fact, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that despite having spent the better part of my adult life studying and writing about gospel (albeit the Southern white variety rather than the more familiar black gospel tradition featured at the Super Bowl event), I had never heard of this “faith and football” celebration be…

Five Women President Obama Should Invite to Give the Inaugural Benediction

By Joanna Brooks

…ustice and spiritual revitalization. Sanaa Nadim: Nadim (pictured above in official White House photo) is one of the first Muslim chaplains at an American university and among the first women to serve as a Muslim university chaplain. Anapesi Kaili: A Mormon Tongan-American community organizer and founder of the HYPE (Helping Youth Pursue Emancipation) Movement for and by Pacific Island Youth. And she’s a layperson. Because it’s important to rememb…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nged and I’m no longer attracted to the same sex, I’m attracted to the opposite sex.” When I would ask those questions point blank I would find out these people weren’t changing. Not only that but they push these theories. I heard over and over again that I must have had a distant father or an overbearing mother and this was why I was gay. When I told them that was not true and that I have a great relationship with both of my parents, I was basica…

Mormon Church Finally Notes Black Elders, Still Offers No Apology

By Darron T. Smith

…tenance of racist discourse. Church leaders appear convinced that the 1978 official declaration, which ended 125 years of racial discrimination against black people (beginning with Brigham Young’s statement to the Utah Territorial Legislation in 1852) was enough to silence their critics. With a revelation and the stroke of a pen, white racist traditions ostensibly ceased to exist. Mitt Romney claimed he was overcome with emotion at the announcemen…

The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement

By Jonathan Dudley

…other side of the argument. As Aquinas put it (in a view that remained the official position of the Catholic Church from the medieval era to the mid-1800s), “The rational soul ought to be united to a body which may be a suitable organ of sensation… before the body has organs in any way whatever, it cannot be receptive of the soul.” More sophisticated anti-abortion arguments were advanced once the movement was already underway, notably the 1982 pub…