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GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…cinal intervention. Unlike Judaism, Islam has few specific requirements to classify food as inherently good or permissible, and only disallows wine, pork, and its byproducts. The Qur’an states that food is part of living a full life, and caring for one’s physical body—as part of the larger self—is an essential part of salvation. In his essay, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim ethicist Ebrahim Moosa examines the ways that Muslim lea…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…ortance and self-love that come with being part of the permanent governing class. They take their extreme privilege for granted. Daschle said Monday that he just didn’t see that the car and driver he enjoyed might represent taxable income, rather than “a gift from a good friend.” Hello? And did Obama seriously think that because Daschle wasn’t registered as a lobbyist, he wasn’t effectively lobbying for the private-sector clients that dumped $5 mi…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…rs feel heard. It also solves a lot of messaging debates. Do white working-class voters need to hear a strong economic message? Get their neighbors to give it to them. Do black women need to hear a message of hope and liberation? Deliver it to them through the religious institutions they trust. A coalition of citizens speaking to itself is stronger and more inspiring than any candidate. Along those lines, if Democrats are wise, they’ll put combatt…

A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change

By Brent Hege

…on and are taking public steps to leave the ELCA or to remain with certain reservations. A dissenting group called Lutheran CORE (formerly Coalition for Reform, now Coalition for Renewal) met in assembly in September of 2009 to discuss the possibility of forming a new Lutheran church body in North America. Those discussions resulted in the announcement of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), which will include disaffected “confessional” Luth…

Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…against all evidence, that culture rot proceeds entirely independently of class war from above. That is a naive and dangerous delusion. Economic spoliation and civic decay go hand in hand, but the leading hand belongs to the iron law of oligarchy. When 80% of the population is being fleeced by greedheads at the top (who now have so much money they literally don’t know what to do with it), a coruscating rage fueled by status anxiety is bound to ke…

Does Church Temper Trump Voters’ Views on Race? New Report Whitewashes Conservative Christian Problem

By Timothy Gloege

…tions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class,” 87% of religious conservatives disagree. They apparently believe African-American poverty is completely unrelated to centuries of slavery and discrimination. Yet three-quarters of these voters claim that “discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.” All this contradicts the assertion that religious…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…y. You know what I mean. Go to school, learn what it is what you want to do. A lot of people in Hollywood are like, I can do it, I can act, I’m just gonna go there, get an agent and do it. It makes a difference when you have a class—it’s like anything else. You’ve got to dedicate the time to it. And here’s the thing, it’s not an easy road. It’s just something that you love, and if you can’t see your life being fulfilled if you don’t do it, then do…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…ith organized crime and with the distrust of their new government. It is a classic immigrant story, made all the more poignant by the contrast between the two brothers: one tattooed in ways which make it impossible for him to deny his own identity, while the other seeks to mask his identity, having adopted an assimilating name and demeanor. He refuses his mother-in-law’s suggestion that he take his son back to the world they came from, yet he’s co…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…ation [about] how he might accomplish his dream [bringing together working-class Catholics and evangelical Protestants] when he attended a political strategy session run by liberal operatives.” Although Weyrich hadn’t been invited to the confab—and to my knowledge he never revealed how he got there—Martin’s book quoted him as saying that “there before my eyes was revealed the modus operandi of the left:” They had all these different groups, includ…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…n and encourage the idea that the body of Christ is segregated by race and class. To people of color who have spent centuries being shunned or diminished by white evangelicals, anything less than acknowledgment, and changed behavior, specifically from Bible-toting white men who’ve manipulated scriptural teachings in order to keep Black people in both literal and proverbial chains, will be as fake as it is antagonistic. The acknowledgment that Blac…