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Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

…on with this meeting”. Dr. King replied, “We don’t know anything about welfare. We are here to learn.” More than a month into the coronavirus pandemic, our nation is revealing how little it knows about welfare or how to care for all of its people. The $2 trillion stimulus package passed last week may include stop-gap measures for the poor, but it does very little to respond to the vast need being created by COVID-19 nor the pre-existing crisis fac…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…tale as a writing device, and the Talmud as a muse. “Long ago, in a land far, far away” allows him to say what he feels he has to about what is happening here and now. “What I want out of life is the wonder of childhood, the curiosity of childhood, everyday, for myself and for everyone else. The moment I start to self-consciously divide children from adults is the moment I lose sight of that broader focus.” Which perhaps explains why his next pro…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…cted the women to carry their water. Instead, they learned that those days are largely behind them. As I put it delicately at the time: “If you can spell Catholic, you are probably asking: how dare they go after 57,000 dedicated women whose median age is well over 70 and who work tirelessly for a more just world? How dare the very men who preside over a Church [church?] in utter disgrace due to sexual misconduct and cover-ups by bishops try to dis…

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…salism has stuck with me to this day, I find myself feeling more warmly toward Armstrong’s work this time around. Fields of Blood has elements of Armstrong’s patented smooth-edged history. But it’s framed as a direct retort to the argument, often leveled by New Atheists Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, that religion causes war. Back when I was in college, we hadn’t quite completed the conflation of the words “Muslim” and “terrorist,” and the atheis…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…as a “false religion.” At around the same time Pat Robertson issued a similar warning describing some aspects of it as “really spooky.” Even more recently Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, told a live audience that: “Yoga is demonic… It’s absolute paganism… Yoga and meditation and Easternism is [sic] all opening to demonism… if you just sign up for a little yoga class, you’re signing up for a little demon class. Tha…

Civil Rights’ Roughneck Preacher, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)

By Anthea Butler

…l Rights movement: Everyone knew Shuttlesworth would have to be beat down hard to get him to turn around. Compromise was reached, and Shuttlesworth stood with King and Ralph Abernathy to read the prepared statement. Despite the compromise, white segregationists would go on to bomb several places, including the home of King’s Brother Daniel, and a few months later in September of 1963, Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist church would be bombed, k…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ed by conservative American Catholics opposed to federal spending on social programs. Catholic Vote’s Brian Burch connected the vote directly to the 2016 election in the U.S. “In some ways, Margaret Thatcher’s shocking win in 1979 foreshadowed an electoral shift in the United States a year later,” he wrote. “Perhaps history is repeating itself.”…

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism

By Mary E. Hunt

…ex, and how good people live their lives. University of Chicago legal scholar Mary Anne Case lays out the contours of the Vatican’s long and increasingly damaging campaign in a well-researched, complex, and convincing article, “Trans Formations in the Vatican’s War on ‘Gender Ideology’”. She explores “…the Vatican’s decades-long, worldwide, multifront war on what it has come to call ‘gender ideology’ from its very recent incarnation in Donald Trum…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…ook comes out during something of a “Book of Mormon” moment. Literary scholars are beginning to study it and teach it as a peculiar and deeply complicated text. This is new. It’s a break from the more than century-long tradition of intentional Book of Mormon illiteracy among serious readers (inaugurated by Mark Twain’s famous quip that the book is “chloroform in print,” which was sustained by the likes of Harold Bloom, who said the book does not h…

A Progressive Christian Conference With an All-White Lineup: What Could Go Wrong?

By Anita Little

…picture of what many Christians of color, evangelicals of color in particular, are facing right now post-election. As Lee wrote here in RD, many are deciding whether to “divest or dive in,” whether to abandon institutions that hurt and exclude or keep fighting to change them from within. Austin Channing Brown, a Christian writer and social justice activist, expressed the former in an email: “I am trying to think beyond these conferences, and don’t…