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Why Zubik is Especially Important for Women of Color

By Elizabeth Platt and Kira Shepherd

…reach a clinic. A recent New York Times article found that clinic closings appear to be closely linked to the uptick in searches for illegal, self-induced abortion. In addition, women who have unintended pregnancies are more likely to abuse substances while pregnant and less likely to seek prenatal care, which can negatively impact the health of the fetus. Some unintended pregnancies cost women of color their lives. The United States is now one of…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…I can most be of use in my writing and activism, so I take that pragmatic approach. However, in my day-to-day life I often feel very estranged from the normal trappings of Christianity—the emphasis on raising children in the best (safest) way possible, for example, or the importance of attending church, or debating doctrine. This all seems very far removed from my life—there are precious few church plants in poorer neighborhoods, for instance, or…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ons) is something that no one had foreseen and no one knows now what will happen,” bishop Tor Berger Joergensen told public broadcaster NRK. “We must have a little time now to look into the procedures.” Russia: Legislator Calls for Saudi-Style ‘Morality Police’ Vitaly Milonov, the author of a regional anti-gay “propaganda” law that helped build momentum for the passage of a national law last year, has called for the creation of a “morality police…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…ical milieu and I know the language of the tribe. I understand the immense appeal of belonging and also the immense appeal of the concept that we are all God’s “vessels” for service to our neighbors and the wider world. I was raised to respect the ethos, still taught by Family types, of “eradication of self,” of total surrender to God’s will. Older and wiser now, I also understand the danger of this presumed self-emptying and of the potential for…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…also temporarily block entry visas from seven countries—Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya—for 30 days as part of a broader security review of visa-admission programs, after which permanent visa bans could be enacted for those countries and others.” Take this transparent attempt to privilege Judeo-Christian faith traditions in immigration policy and combine it with the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, which Trump has promise…

Terror is as Terror Does

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…oblem is that if they are combatants, then there are rights and rules that apply to them. If we do not wish these rights or rules to apply to them, then we must define them in some other way. It is not terrorism which should occupy our attention, so much as the dangerous proliferation of new and indiscriminate weapons. It is the enormity, and the gravity, and the global nature of this threat that demands global partnerships, and the long view. Bot…

A New Frontier for Democrats and Religion?

By Sarah Posner

…le in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, religious freedom in Israel, Sudan, Cuba, and elsewhere, and combatting global poverty. Other popes might have talked about peace and poverty, but Francis’s much-discussed “new tone” seems like a permission slip for Democrats to talk religion without a full scale showdown on culture war issues. That said, there are topics apparently left undiscussed: a new war on LGBT people in Russia, Nigeria, and els…

Electability of Biden is More ‘Conventional’—and Less ‘Wisdom’

By Branko Marcetic

…ly emerge, while Biden can only protest his son’s mysterious and lucrative appointment to the board of a Ukrainian gas giant trying to curry favor with the US by insisting the arrangement wasn’t illegal—hardly exonerating in a town where so much of corruption isn’t. Trump will make hay of Biden’s longstanding fealty to corporate donors, whether as the “senator from MBNA” who made bankruptcy harder for middle-class families at the credit card indus…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…er family reunion arrangements. Finally, an estimated 25,000 Africans from Sudan, Eritrea, and other countries have infiltrated the country via Egypt. Together with Arab Israelis, approximately 30% of the population (inside the Green Line) is not Jewish, similar to Belgium with a 30% Walloon and a 60% Flemish population or pre-1993 Czechoslovakia (54% Czech and 31% Slovak). Israel’s very raison d’etre is to maintain its Jewish exclusivity. David B…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…ury. Even if we assume that that theoretical construct of Shari`a is still applicable today, it cannot possibly apply as the law of the land in dar al-Harb, namely Kenya, in this case, where Senator Obama’s father was born and raised, presumably as a Muslim. As a matter of historical fact, the territory now constituting the modern state of Kenya was never part of dar al-Islam at any point in time. More specifically, when Senator Obama’s father was…