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Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…r vigil. This past year we had just one rabid protester. We’ve come a long way.” Loyd, a soft-spoken Vietnam vet who grew up in a rural area near Conway, credits the peace that the couple currently enjoys to their willingness to confront their would-be oppressors head on. “The night before our first parade someone dumped six tons of manure in front of the house,” he says. “But we found out who did it and we saw to it that they did time in jail. We…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved were always in our lives. On the 21st of each month (Nellie had passed on March 21), Coach would write a letter to Nellie, adding it to the neat pile on her side of the bed. During my development as a teache…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…ven when the road was near a river. Kedarnath saw the building of new cell phone towers, a railway reservation office, helicopter landing pads, lodges with hot water available in the room. Prices soared. When a wave of water and rock crashed down upon Kedarnath last month it crashed down upon a site bursting at the seams—had this event happened twenty years ago deaths and destruction would have been far, far less. This disaster feels to me like th…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…into a martyr and now stands to make a lot of money from the taxpayers of Wayne County from a costly federal lawsuit. As Darrell Dawsey wrote for Detroit News: “With all that this region is going through, you mean to tell me that we can’t deal with some ass-backward country preacher spouting off about his xenophobic fears of Arab-Americans and/or Islam? Indifference, ridicule, pity — any of these would’ve been an appropriate response to this foo…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…and Guilford (Greensboro) Counties Michigan: Macomb and Oakland Counties (Detroit Metro Area), and Kent County (Grand Rapids) In a 2022 Facebook Live video Carrie Sheffield, the director of AFPI’s Center for American Values offers a version of the standard yet misleading explanation of Christian Right politics, claiming that they seek to “leverage churches” by educating them on the America First agenda, through their Biblical Foundations initiati…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in that book was to wake people up to the fact that we’ve got this strong way of looking at human history—and to see both its goods and the way in which it can also be incredibly demonic. To work within those two poles without become dualists is our challenge. I know people on the left who are very dualistic, except in reverse—anything the right does can’t be good, etc. I think that the trick is critical consciousness. So, I wrote the book to rai…

Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…equate health care, and single moms unable to feed their families. In many ways, The Rich and the Rest of Us is political sustenance for the already converted to liberal and leftist causes. Quoting historian Howard Zinn and looking to the insights of filmmaker Michael Moore probably will not convince many conservatives to rally to the cause—and when Smiley and West rely on Barbara Ehrenreich, they are drawing upon a fellow dissident. Put simply, t…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…the 1990s) will be joined by other conservative leaders in an eleven-city (Detroit, Phoenix, Los Angeles Cleveland, Tampa, Orlando, Chicago, Indianapolis, Pewaukee, WI; Sacramento and Newark), “Education Revolution Tour,” the goal of which is to renew “American Exceptionalism.” The result of these reforms is likely to be a fractured educational system incapable of serving the very purpose of public education: to ensure an educated citizenry capabl…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…support him’ says Kathy Khang, a Christian writer and speaker based in the Chicago area. When asked about the outspoken remarks of popular Christian writers and speakers like Jen Hatmaker, Khang says that she wishes they had spoken up when Trump was making derogatory comments about immigrants and African Americans: “It was great when evangelical women started speaking out. It’s just unfortunate that it took them so long and that it took that [the…