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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…g about here is community, belonging. And that’s what we all want. I mean particularly now, particularly in this crisis—it’s tough times in a lot of places, and the church has always been this place to come into for support. There’s plenty of good that can be done around that. I even think a lot of these programs are doing a lot of good. But the potential for exploitation is so vast, and the trade-off over time becomes extremist views. Nobody ever…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…panions who continue to help him find words to trust. “Memory pulls us forward,” says Ruth in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, “so prophecy is only brilliant memory.” When I think of his pastoral theology, I recall an image he’s often made use of in his preaching: I think of someone becoming all fire. Isaac ended a sermon in 2010 with a fourth-century story of two monks in the Egyptian desert—a crazy story about “someone who believes that God’s…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…e, and here for Letters to the Editor in response to it. ++++ In early January, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, posted a short essay on Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith.” The response to his posting was so passionate and violent that Gandhi was forced to resign his position as director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester. The topic of discussion on the blog that day was “the future of Jewish ide…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e. And in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority finally delivered conservatives another important victory they’d been longing for ending affirmative action for colleges and universities (at least for non-White people). As Madiba K. Dennie writes for Balls and Stripes—the John Roberts-written majority opinion was quintessential Roberts: In a classic Roberts move, the…

Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…Maria Nosowska who was the woman who had created the program twenty-five years earlier. She’d done it five days a week for twenty-five years. And she was just completely devoted to Chopin. We spent four hours together listening to music. It was an amazing thing. They told me my interview would be broadcast the day I got back. So I took the train back all the way back to Regensburg. I arrived in the afternoon. I went back to my little dingy room in…

The Devil in Dover

By Lauri Lebo

…ion to teach intelligent design in ninth-grade biology classrooms, eleven parents sued, sparking a federal Constitutional challenge. Lauri Lebo, a small-town reporter who covered the trial, knows not just the legal case and science, but the people on all sides of the divisive battle. In The Devil in Dover, Lebo traces the compelling backstory of this pivotal case described by some as a perfect storm of religious intolerance, First Amendment violat…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…the day: he just says what other people are thinking. The stakes here are far larger than one peevish critique of intersectionality. And ironically, his post serves as a sharp reminder that the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class discrimination that inspired legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw’s powerful insight back in 1989 still make for perilous crossing. For all the work it does (kudos!), the main points of Sullivan’s post are uncom…

‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

By Emma Cieslik

…o I think it’s important to see the way that, while this was started in a particular religious context, it’s also a national myth. One of the things that I’ve also been trying to understand is January 6th and thinking about White womanhood. So again, regardless of White women’s sexual experiences and their beliefs about it, White women can step into a position of moral correctness simply by asserting their virtue and their innocence. This is the l…

All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America

By Mary Valle

…rs. Even though I tend to poke fun, there are times when the super-earnest are snark objects and I feel a little bad on their behalf, since they’re as defenseless as newborn lambs. (I also felt sad for Harold Camping recently when his apocalypse didn’t go through.) It got me thinking about the odd cultural bird that is Halloween—America’s number two holiday in terms of money spent—a holiday with deep “pagan” or “old religion” roots and the site of…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…therings, and become a defensive force against the Bund. Lansky in particular learned a lesson about the necessity of violence in defense of Jews while witnessing his Grodno Jewish community (in what is now Belarus) prepare for a rumored Christian pogrom. Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge Dina Porat Stanford U. Press Nov, 2022 Bernstein traces these early Jewish criminals to the story of the Golem, a violent, amoral mons…