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NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…ely shown to over 1300 police officers—or about the size of one graduating class from the police academy—and that Kelly sat for a 90 minute interview expressly for the film. And we’re supposed to believe that police force, in part of it’s counterterrorism training, used a film from a DHS contractor that they didn’t vet, and that they didn’t know who the contractor was. Imagine this scenario: A man walks into a building in NYC. No one knows who he…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…te media chatter on about the consequences of a national default on middle-class people’s pensions. They chatter on about “will he or won’t he” Paul Ryan. Almost nobody with a soapbox, and (sadly) none of our religious leaders, talks about broader GOP campaign to strangle what remains of the welfare state. The corporate media let well-fed white guys like Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan talk about the need not to saddle his children and grandchild…

Yes, Virginia: There IS a War on Christmas: Its Revolutionary Meaning is Inverted in the Winner-Take-All Era

By Peter Laarman

…more or less reserved for the comfort and consolation of the upper middle class; churches that will also turn away the smelly and potentially disruptive poor without the slightest hesitation. I said that I have started to catch the holiday spirit. Just a tiny bit. But I almost cannot bear to hear the “Magnificat” read—or sung—in a rich people’s Advent service. It’s just too painful to heard Mary’s exultant words, “[God] has brought down the power…

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…dations that supplemental materials be introduced in public school science classrooms have been part of anti-evolution bills in states across the country as a way to sneak creationist literature into the curriculum. Because they are not subject to the same formal adoption process as official textbooks, supplemental materials used in local school districts could rely on some seriously dubious source matter. (Discovery Institute material, perhaps?)…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…atives both here and in Britiain, and even make a cameo in E.P. Thompson’s classic, The Making of the English Working Class. And so, for me, the process of writing this book was a real eye-opener that demonstrated that even small, some might say, “marginal” religious groups are connected in so many ways to so many other groups, crossing lines of space, race, and time. It led me to rethink the utility of the “marginal” and to discover just how rich…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…ine, heterosexual, Christian, native born, culturally conservative, middle-class Americans were the unquestioned center of the culture. Trump has worked to restore them to that place of privilege. Consequently, “Keep America Great” isn’t just an empty phrase or trite repackaging of the ubiquitous MAGA slogan. Trump’s supporters believe it. They believe it because the appeal of “MAGA” was never really about returning to some golden age when America…

At Religion Newswriters Meeting, Obama Campaign Bans TV Cameras [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…use of the president’s stance on economic issues and protecting the middle class. “Faith has been a huge part of my life — I’m a Christian, a very solid Christian,” said Ellwood, 19, who also is on the executive board of College Democrats at OSU and attends the h2o church on campus. “They’re two big parts of my life. It’s intertwined, being a Democrat and being a Christian.” Why would the campaign want to highlight how gosh darn remarkable it is t…

Op-Ed: Liberal Hatred

By Laurie Patton

…my mother’s lawn for a penny a dandelion. But that summer in Sunday school class we also learned about the ways in which people were deprived of rights, and we collected money to help them. We learned about the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. And we learned about what kinds of things people were doing to change the world. During that summer of 1968 I think I even performed in a play like the one the children of Knoxvill…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…reds of thousands of people across all the superficial boundaries of race, class, ethnicity, religion, and gender. When have we seen a politician running for office drawing crowds of 100,000 persons as Obama did in St. Louis over the weekend? Most important, Obama’s campaign has caught the imagination of the nation. He is now within reach of becoming the next president. It seems almost surreal that he should have nearly 3.5 million contributors to…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…I began thinking about all this at the first meeting of a feminist theory class I took in a Ph.D. program at Temple University 20 years ago. Students went around the table introducing themselves. Halfway through, a young woman said, “Hi. I’m so and so, and I’m a lesbian.” Then she paused. “Well, I used to be a lesbian,” she added, “but my partner had a sex-change operation, so now I’m not exactly sure what I am.” And that was just the beginning….