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100 Years Later, Just Weeks After OK Bans Critical Race Theory, the Tulsa Race Massacre is Still Marginal History

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…r of George Floyd, even as local, state and federal agencies continue to struggle with the appropriate response to police brutality and the continued deaths of unarmed African Americans at the hands of law enforcement. Also, as Tulsans of all backgrounds commemorate and memorialize the events of May and June of 1921, the Oklahoma legislature passed HB 1775, signed into law by Governor Kevin Stitt, which bans the use of critical race theory in publ…

The Christian Right’s Main Moral Argument Against Abortion Rights Completely Ignores This Critical Issue: It’s Time to Raise It

By Elizabeth Freese

…Coaston and featuring columnists Michelle Goldberg and Ross Douthat, constructively illuminated opportunities for moral intervention. Goldberg verges on some true breakthroughs deploying core values in the Constitution, which can be taken further by centering labor; while Douthat lays bare a conservative “personhood” premise in dire need of labor critique. In my research on public discourse and moral framing around abortion, I’ve observed that fe…

When Satire is Redundant

By Holly Welker

…aw of Tithing” (because Mormons aren’t supposed to gamble, and obeying one rule while breaking another is morally iffy) or “Relief Society Counselor Asks Sisters to Cultivate ‘More Appealing Problems’” (based on a woman I knew who complained about how she disliked helping people with “unappealing” problems—like there are really any other kind) or “MTC Fashion Advisor Calls Scriptures ‘Great Accessory’” (because the fashion and makeup classes siste…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…ever be seen as humans, or live free from racist violence, or learn to put words to trauma so we might work towards healing. I am saying with certainty none of that will happen without a rupture in America itself. No, not a reformed American Democracy, but a total breakage from America’s “terms of order” is crucial. That breakage will lead to a society where all people atonally abide in one another. A society where all people, regardless of their…

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

By Peter Laarman

…ging an energized and equipped lay priesthood to minister to the suffering world outside the church doors. I’m worried about how little time we have to get all of these changes firmly rooted. You? We should all be worried. A Native American sage once told me that the world cannot survive 500 more years of Christian domination. It may be more like 50 years. Until we feel that our toes are already hanging over the edge of the precipice we have not t…

Can We Ask Mitt About Mormonism’s Racist Past?

By Darron T. Smith

…d the contentious subject of American racism would likely bring unwanted scrutiny to the candidate who could become the first white man to unseat the nation’s first black president. The remarks earlier this year by now-former BYU professor, Randy Bott, that African Americans had been banned from the priesthood because they weren’t yet ready for it, brought unsolicited attention to the LDS faith’s racist past, causing a swift reaction from Church…

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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…clinations, it’s becoming less relevant because the Right has essentially crushed Palestinian aspirations, or pushed them to a breaking point. It wrongly thinks the Palestinians will be wrestled into submission. That they will give up. But zero-sum games are rarely successful as long as people remain alive (which may be why many observers, Israeli scholars among them, believe the government is threatening genocide). ‘Yad Vashem with an air force’…

God Bless You, Barbara Herz

By Sarah Posner

…e the chaos late this afternoon: The [Democrats’] 2008 platform stated: “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.” In the newly approved 2012 document, there is no mention of Jerusalem, stating that Obama and the Democratic Party “maintain an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security,”…

Two and a Half Men Child Star Calls Show “Filth”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…k people” in an insultingly reductive and fatuous way. Black people of the world! Angus Jones LIKES you! He wants a church where there is a FULL SET of you, because he wants the COMPLETE BLACK PEOPLE CHURCH EXPERIENCE! My GOODNESS! Are you not FLATTERED? No no no. No more of that, please. Mr. Jones, you are not a college student, your dorm room is not your church, and “black people” are not the flokati rug from TJ Maxx that will really tie the r…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…nowledges openly, and rejects openly, the shamefulness of still wishing to run the world and keep the course of events under one’s control. But it’s not easy for those accustomed to to step out of the saddle and agree to to take the role of foot soldier in a march toward the unknown. White skin privilege among educated elites is every bit as persistent as white tribalism among non-elites—and in some ways more destructive. Ethical accompaniment is…