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Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

By Frederick Clarkson

…UCC is the direct institutional descendent of the Pilgrims who came to the New World on the Mayflower, and was the church of the influential 18th century preacher, Jonathan Edwards. The UCC’s photogenic white churches still populate the village greens of New England. It also prides itself as a “church of firsts,” They were among the first Americans to oppose slavery. By 1785 the church had ordained the first African-American protestant minister; i…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…, all living vertically next to the elevated train tracks, in time-honored New York City tenement tradition. Only, in contrast to Chinatown or the Lower East Side, there is nearly nothing left of Little Syria. I walked what remains of Little Syria with Joseph Svehlak, a longtime tour guide and founder of Friends of the Lower West Side, whose mother, of Czech heritage, grew up in the neighborhood. He hadn’t realized its significance to the Arab Ame…

What the Catholic Supreme Court Justices Get Wrong About Marriage

By Patricia Miller

…cular, parental-controlled system as it “established its position as a power in the land … the largest landowner, a position it obtained by gaining control of the system of marriage.” The cornerstone of the West’s understanding of marriage “for millennia” has been a relationship of mutual consent bound by deep ties of affection based on a pledge made by individuals to one another. It’s true, of course, that the assumption was of a man and woman, b…

Possibility that Bachmann Believes in Wifely Submission Irrelevant?

By Julie Ingersoll

…e. As I wrote here on RD after that debate: In the conservative Christian world there is a spectrum of views on how these texts (the biblical texts concerning women) are to be read. Evangelical feminists argue that the Bible actually teaches mutual submission between men and women. Sarah Posner argued that Bachmann’s lack of clarity on this issue, and the potential impact it would have on policy, make it fair game for public inquiry: Bachmann ha…

“Far Too Extreme For America To Accept,” Hamas “Endorsed Obama,” “Forced Abortions,” and More

By Sarah Posner

…ing in the final days leading up to the election. The National Republican Trust PAC, run by conservative conspiracy theorist Scott Wheeler, has purchased airtime in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to broadcast its 25-minute “Breaking Point” political attack ad, starting last Friday. Using clips from Townhall.com, World Net Daily, Fox Business, CNSNews.com, and Glenn Beck, narrator E. W. Jackson invokes the boogeymen of…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…on the LDS psyche—it only exposes it. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did cruel, cruel things to their followers and their wives as they taught and practiced the doctrine of polygamy. My ancestors, admittedly clannish, self-righteous people, paid for their faults by being repeatedly evicted from their homes and being threatened with extermination on order of the governor in Missouri. The Mormon migration to Utah involved tremendous suffering, as e…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…m God’s ambassador, sent to earth with his full authority,’ he announced.” New York Times editorial, June 27, 2004 To some, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon may be a relic of a bygone era; to others, he’s a brother from another planet. But despite the fact that news about Moon’s various religious/media/business endeavors rarely appears on the radar screens of the nation’s media (both mainstream and alternative), Moon continues to move ahead on a number…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…s upon the sick. Getting in and out of boats. Going off to pray alone, sometimes weeping alone. Breaking bread and seeing to it that there was enough wine to go around. Laughing, eating, making bad puns. When he was gone, did they first remember his list of religious instructions? Did they remember his debating points against his adversaries? Eventually they remembered these things. But first they remembered the Good Shepherd. Archaeology shows…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…nistration. There are close to a million undocumented immigrants living in New York according to Pew Research, yet Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is also the Archbishop of New York, has done little to offer those immigrants reassurance that the Catholic church will stand up for them. In a Daily News op/ed, Dolan described immigrants as “a gift” to New York and stated that Trump has shown a lack of concern for immigrants. And New York’s Archbishop has…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…friend’s bathroom, go vomit your ignorance out. ‘Lota’ is the South Asian word for this implement, and the South Asian word wins, because we’re one-third of Muslims, so demography rules; built-in ‘Muslim showers’ today come in the form of hoses or in-toilet jets, present from Bangkok’s airport to Istanbul’s. A parking lota is just one you keep in the car for, you know… Ramada: Hotel chain that has been confusing recently-arrived immigrants to the…