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The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…arking the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade flooded Washington with 650,000 protestors—the number organizers are now using to say their march should draw the same kind of media coverage as the Woman’s March—anyone who has ever covered the march knows that that’s Trump-like wishful thinking about crowd size. Most media coverage of the march optimistically reports attendance in the “tens of thousands.” But that often equates to some 20,000 or 30,000…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…isited 16 US cities, drawing sold-out crowds at every stop, with regularly priced tickets ranging between $250 and $500. It is arguably the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…mpany, so it does not have to disclose much financial information. But his provocative claims probably haven’t been bad for its bottom line. The joy of provocation does not explain white supremacy. But, while the alt-right didn’t invent white supremacy, this particular cocktail of troll-ish pleasure, countercultural ethos, threat, and old-school racism does seem to be having a moment. And it is posing fresh dilemmas. An effective troll is harmful…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…no need the recite the whole joke. Prisoners can just call out the joke’s number to provoke raucous laughter. Or not—because some people just can’t tell a joke. Some days I wonder whether we shouldn’t adopt a similar system for church arguments about homosexuality. Not the raucous laughter (though there are plenty of causes for it), but the numbering. Instead of reciting the familiar arguments once again, we could simply call out the numbers to c…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…it days or weeks to communicate by exchange of letter or telegram. The telephone promised a pathway out of our isolation and loneliness. In 1926, Arthur Pound sung its praises: “We who are still young have beheld millions of farm families emerge from isolation, the tucked away mountain hamlet and prairie village brought into touch with the busy currents of trade and social intercourse. Many new tools and systems originated by science and organized…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…ified, and the mass cremation of the bodies in a way that is religiously appropriate. Some Uttarakhand residents protested this decision, saying that the state government was proceeding with mass cremation in order to prevent the true number of deaths in and around Kedarnath from ever being known. One of the government organizations involved in rescuing survivors reportedly refused to assist with cremations. Even as the state government continues…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…d Dylan Krieger Delete Press August 2017 And a shock, surely, to the small press that had produced the volume. Orders placed in the wake of that review’s publication were filled just this month, an interval that only furthered expectation regarding Simmons’s claim that the poems here went “places I have never seen any poet go before” and that through “the abundant literary, religious and philosophical references embedded in the ingenious wordplay,…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…slipped into the dorms we couldn’t get signed into, and posted hundreds of cheap notices printed on 8.5 x 11 paper. We’d invited a prominent imam to speak and ordered a delicious dinner, convinced that the perpetually elastic undergraduate stomach would be the gateway to the soul. The next morning, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were struck, thousands were murdered, New York City went into lockdown, and our community was sent reeling. Eve…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…even have the courtesy to check Trayvon’s phone for his mom and dad’s telephone numbers because it’s just a black criminal’s body to them. While Zimmerman the trigger man slept in his bed, the police ordered a drug and alcohol test for Trayvon’s lifeless body. A black body that was representative of evil against the whiteness of George Zimmerman. I hesitated to write about this story, because there are many good stories about Trayvon and his pare…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…they discussed the family and reiterated their opposition to gay unions…. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has proposed the legal recognition of civil partnerships, but he does not support the extension of marriage rights for same-sex couples. Rome, Florence, Naples, Palermo and more than 100 other Italian cities and municipalities have created largely symbolic civil union registries. Tuscany, Puglia and Emilia-Romagna are among the regional governmen…