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A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…rican who happens to be black” (which I heard him proudly state on a local Chicago television station the morning of November 5). I am willing to acknowledge that part of the brilliance behind President-Elect Obama’s campaign was his lack of emphasis on race. In the nearly two years of campaigning for the office of president, Obama really did not talk about race until he had to—which ironically was connected to his religious affiliation with Rever…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…Throughout the video Kanye is trailed through the streets of his hometown, Chicago, by an goofy white Jesus who performs a series of miracles. He puts cash in Kanye’s pocket. He fills an empty refrigerator with food. And he heals a young man on crutches, who then promptly breaks out into a praise dance. More than a clear theological message, ultimately “Jesus Walks” puts on display the silly (yet still seductive) idea that God might serve humans m…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h profiled Armet Kolesov, a 23-year-old gay Russian violinist who lives in Chicago. This spring, a day after his birthday, Kolesov recorded a 15-minute message to young gay people in Russia, and it went viral. A few excerpts: He went on, in Russian, to tell the story of growing up as the fourth of six brothers in a small town, an hour’s drive from Moscow, where his father was a deacon and his mother was a youth pastor at the Pentecostal church. “I…

Catholic Group Blasts Cardinal’s Comment Comparing Gay Rights Parade to KKK

By Sarah Posner

…e, past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, objecting to Chicago’s gay rights parade. On Fox News Chicago, George said, “You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.” Equally Blessed charges in a statement that George “has demeaned and demonized LGBT people in a manner unworthy of his office. In suggesting that the Catholic hierarchy ha…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…rences for several years. Hosting visiting protesters was a coup for TST’s Chicago chapter, which only gained official status in February. April: TST announced their intent to sue the state of Arkansas. The legislature, in an effort led by Sen. Stanley Rapert, installed a Ten Commandments monument on their capitol in 2015. After TST began meeting with the capitol arts and grounds committee to discuss a location for their statue of Baphomet, the le…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…mission to use the image and to the design department at the University of Chicago Press for creating a terrific cover with it. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are many excellent books by historians, philosophers, and social scientists on the representation of Jews in social thought, the backgrounds and contexts of Jewish social thinkers, and the historical sociology of Jews and their relations to gentiles…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…begin a weekend spiritual retreat hosted by the Mystic Soul Project, a new Chicago-based organization working to create spiritual spaces that center people of color, including their trauma, gifts, experiences, ancestral traditions, and activism. Mystic Soul is part of a broader movement of people of color moving beyond dominant Christianity, which largely reflects white culture, to chart their own spiritual initiatives, ones that increasingly inco…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…1898. Like most dioceses, San Francisco has seen a precipitous drop in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clea…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…to protesters doing the same, but protester Michael Joseph Garza told the Chicago Tribune that he did not believe that was the case and elaborated a bit: “I went up to her and said, ‘Ma’am, please leave, we have understood you, we have made a (path),’” Garza recalled. “She said, ‘Go? Back in my day, this is what we did,’ basically, and then she hailed Hitler.” Garza posted his own recollection of the incident on Facebook the same night: The woman…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…mporary reports belie that notion).* It’s all rather fascinating: from the Chicago spookhouse to the Yellowface act to the fights over, and oversights of, “authenticity.” Not least is the fact of Robinson’s flip-flopping career as a sometime spiritualist sometime anti-spiritualist. That magicians and spiritualists did battle is no surprise. Their turf-wars over the meaning, mechanics, and professional locus of “phenomena” are the stuff of familiar…