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Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…over gender troubles, which resulted from colonial pasts and continued to frustrate black social life. Toni Cade Bambara encouraged the construction of new myths and the cultivation of a revolution within the self as important methods for dismantling both racism and sexism. In the midst of a “by any means necessary” moment like that of the late 1960s, the allegedly unmarked idea of “Angelhood” made even the unlikely figure of Father Divine a poten…

“Fusion Politics” Is the Only Cure to America’s Plutocracy

By Emilie M. Townes

…nitely something wrong with this equation, and it is doubtful that we are truly engaging in a healthy version of democracy. As the old Black women I grew up with used to say: Ummph…ummph…ummph. Moral Monday, to my mind, disrupts this train we are currently riding and the various stops we are taking along the way—immigration/deportation/fences, gun violence, terrorism and more. It builds a movement that is, as Barber points out, “an indigenously le…

‘Bad Faith’ Reveals This isn’t First Rodeo for Racism and Religious Right

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…heir bogus “morality” created the template for the current anti-democratic politics of the die-hard evangelical Trump base. We now see what the last half-century of the Religious Right pursuit of power has reaped as it’s being tested by the worst pandemic in a century. Their voter base rejects information from medical experts, refuses to mask or be vaccinated, turns to taking disinfectants and potentially dangerous drugs with no scientific support…

The Ultimate Dirty Politics or Bipartisan Opposition to the Tea Party?

By Julie Ingersoll

…cratically-oriented polling firm) tests the numbers in a two-way race with Rubio facing either Crist or Meek. Rubio still beats Meek, but a hypothetical contest between Crist and Rubio is a dead heat. The Crist campaign denies having any part in trying to coax Meeks to withdraw. But yesterday Crist added to the list of Democrats who have defected from supporting Meek when he secured support from the Palm Beach Democratic People’s Choice PAC. Just…

Reagan’s Religion in Politics Legacy

By Sarah Posner

…Ronald Reagan’s major enduring legacy on religion in politics: not pastors endorsing politicians, but politicians endorsing pastors. Continuing….

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…. Why doesn’t a person’s religious denomination give us insight into their politics? Shouldn’t your beliefs about morality and ultimate truths be a good predictor of your political views? Those are somewhat different questions, I think. A person’s religious denomination doesn’t necessarily tell you all you need to know about their actual beliefs. People can identify with specific denominations for reasons other than theology, like family tradition…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…zed coalitions that strive for the common good, whatever that might look like. Texas, like the union of which it is a part, is built on tall tales, epic myths, and on the grand ideals of freedom, equality, and justice. I, for one, believe in the potential of politics to create more perfect unions. So today and every day that I am at the Capitol during this called legislative session, I will wear orange—not as a challenge, but as an invitation to…

Republicans Charge Obama Is Anti-Catholic and Play Politics with Sex Trafficking Victims

By Sarah Posner

…ed information. At the heart of all this (apart from the obvious electoral politics being played here) is what’s wrong with the way federal faith-based funding has grown over the past several decades and how it is perceived by its recipients. Getting taxpayer money to perform services you believe are part of your faith mission doesn’t entitle you to require those you serve to live by the tenets of your faith, or to use that money to promote your f…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…party in the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, underscoring how politics trumps religious affiliations. As such, contrary to the caricature of U.S. media portrayals, there aren’t roving Hindu mobs roaming the streets of Indian cities or rural villages converting Muslims and Christians en masse. Moreover, the lines between religion and clan, caste, and regional identity are often much more fluid and ambiguous—and often contradictory. Rel…

Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible

By Daniel Schultz

…hat America can be said to have a soul, that thing is a dark, twisted and brutal thing. Hasn’t anyone ever read Moby Dick? The Fire Next Time? People don’t want to redeem the “soul” of the nation. They don’t even want to do the right thing, half the time. What they want is for their ethics to be normative. Let’s be honest about that. In a contested moral narrative, the perspective that wins is the one that uses power effectively. Let’s be honest a…