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New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…abortion, taking away LGBTQ rights, and putting prayer and the Bible in schools. Christian nationalists also tend to view contemporary political tensions in terms of “spiritual warfare,” seeing America as beset by “godless,” “satanic” forces such as liberals, “communists,” queer people, racial justice advocates, and “globalists” from whom “real Americans” have a sacred right and duty to “take the country back.” Christian nationalism has been a con…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…viscerated domestic anti-poverty efforts; war is always “the enemy of the poor.” War punishes the poor in a second way by sending the poorest to do the fighting and dying; King is scandalized that the United States finds it possible to make poor whites and poor Blacks fight and kill Asians together but won’t allow them to be schooled together here at home. War’s organized lethal violence represents a defeat for the wider cause of nonviolence—and h…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…he kids these days. Hence, the rebrand to make the ostensible son of God ‘cool’ and ‘relatable.’ The “He Gets Us” campaign is a project of the Servant Christian Foundation, which Christianity Today describes as “a nonprofit backed by a Christian donor-advised fund called The Signatry.” Both the Servant Foundation and the Signatry, its financial arm, are headed by Steve French—and that’s all we know about who exactly is behind the campaign. Donor-a…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

Michelle Goldberg had the goods yesterday at the Daily Beast on Glenn Beck’s “exposé” of philanthropist George Soros, entitled “The Puppet Master,” a “symphony of anti-Semitic dog-whistles” that Forward editor J.J. Goldberg called “as close as I’ve heard on mainstream television to fascism.” Soros has long been a scapegoat of the right, which has smeared and demonized him as an atheist, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, communism-promoting, one-world or…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…l, sorry if you missed out on that ridiculously racist song from Sunday school days. Speaking of colors, what color are we accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of being (or not being) today? Whether you consider her ‘Momala’ or ‘Copala,’ ‘QueenVP’ or ‘Homicidal Harris,’ one thing’s for certain: she’s Black. Or is she? One of the oldest critiques floating around the world wide web is that she is “Black when it’s convenient.” Similar to the birther…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…utside the levees of coastal Louisiana—my wife and kids would say I spend too much time out there. It is a slow-motion, shape-shifting deltaic masterpiece where water and land have clashed for millennia to form wetlands, marshes, ridges, barrier islands, and bayous able to adapt to the creative and destructive hand of God. Also for centuries, people of Native American, European, and African descent have lived on land and with water in ways that fl…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

According to New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks, some of us do not lack the mental equipment to govern ourselves. And that is good news, indeed. We have it in us, naturally, to see the world on its own terms, to choose our battles, wisely, and to wield our hard-won reason in the service of a kinder and gentler world. Others, particularly those who might question Brooks’ self-assured rendition of Western/American/Brooksian selves and the…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…blished The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger. The 800-page book includes over 50 pages of references and covers a vast history that spans 50 million years—a magnum opus from a highly acclaimed scholar of Hindu traditions. A few months after The Hindus was published in the United States, it was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The award-winning Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly comprehensive,” a…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…h actually served as a précis of the longer essay. So we translated that, too. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Women were ordained as deacons and can be so ordained again. Is there anything you had to leave out? Actually, no. We worked very hard on the translation and our publishers were very generous with their plans for it. The shorter essay appeared in Worship, the journal for scholars of liturgy published at St. John’s…

Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…litary to satisfy the most extreme and selfish cadre of President Obama’s kooky coalition. When it comes to “kooky” Levin knows his stuff. His release goes on to mimic Robertson’s past statements about gays and lesbians – and the alleged acceptance they are currently enjoying in the United States – as the cause of natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. We have seen the underground earthquake, tsunami, Katrina, and now Haiti. All thi…