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Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…; Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in New York City; Rev. Robert Hardies, senior pastor of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C.; and Bishop Tonyia Rawls of the Freedom Center for Social Justice in North Carolina. Forbes said the Repairers of the Breach will be working with economists and others to conduct an audit of the state of the nation’s poor people. “The nation has systematically ignored or down…

Whose God in America?

By Marian Ronan

…ned in with considerable enthusiasm when WNET broadcast the series here in New York last week. I did okay with the opening sequence, in which the Pueblo Indians throw off religious oppression by Franciscan priests in Spanish California. I should perhaps admit upfront that I am a “practicing Catholic” of a distinct sort: my grandparents, on one side, and great-grandparents on the other, were poor Irish immigrants. I inherited from them my perspecti…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…to Trump’s meeting last month with more than 1,000 evangelical leaders in New York City, Wehner pointed to the “problematic” embrace of Trump by evangelical luminaries like Jerry Falwell, Jr., Franklin Graham, and James Dobson who recently vouched for Trump’s born-again status before saying he couldn’t confirm for sure Trump’s conversion. More than just an embrace, Trump’s support from this motley crew of evangelical politicos helped clear the pa…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…hen you thought the conflict in Syria couldn’t get any more confusing, the New York Times reports that Sudanese weapons are apparently making their way, on Ukrainian aircraft, to Syria, via Qatar and Turkey. Of course the latter countries’ involvement means these are not helping Bashar, unless you think his overthrow is good for his long-term life plans. This means that the Sunni Islamist regime in North Africa, closely allied to China and Iran, i…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…ffects of global warming than the American public at large, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted this month. The survey found that only 14 percent of Tea Party supporters said that global warming is an environmental problem that is having an effect now, while 49 percent of the rest of the public believes that it is. More than half of Tea Party supporters said that global warming would have no serious effect at any time in the futu…

Stop Policing the Borders of Christianity

By Brandy Daniels

…reasons related to sexuality. A few weeks ago, another young gay man from New York City, Joseph Jefferson, hung himself. Joseph, who graduated from Harvey Milk High and worked at Gay Men of African Descent on HIV prevention, left a final Facebook message before he took his life: “I could not bear the burden of living as a gay man of color in a world grown cold and hateful towards those of us who live and love differently than the so-called ‘socia…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…Buddhist nun. We had already heard that an occupy movement had started in New York, but from what we read, it sounded frenzied and unruly. The following week, however, I received an invitation from the ministers at Judson Memorial Church [Rev. Michael Ellison] to attend a meeting of clergy that would lay the foundation for a movement of faith leaders in harmony with the aims of Occupy Wall Street (which by then had assumed this name). I attended…

I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan

By Joanna Brooks

…ing front-page, column-one headlines in the national edition of the Sunday New York Times and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert calling for a “Million Moderate March” on Washington, DC, for October 30, it seems right to ask of these moderates the same questions we here at RD have consistently asked of the Tea Party: does this movement have a religion? Here’s a brief roll call from the moderate camp: Michael Bloomberg: Reform Judaism Jon Stewart: Ref…

The Week in Religion, Poetically:

By Michael J. Altman

…side a Hindu home adjoining a temple in the Bronx. While in West Sayville, New York an Indian Christian parade draws interest from the surrounding community. The St. Mary Malankara Indian Orthodox Church’s Assumption Day Parade is an annual favorite for the neighborhood. Keith Olberman found the Aqua Buddha. How did Fox News let him scoop them on that? It seems the happiest countries in the world are also the least religious. In Illinois, one athe…

Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…rican Religious Debates over Birth Control, 1907-1937, Archbishop Hayes of New York worked very hard to shut down the activities of Margaret Sanger because he believed that such technology violated the “natural” connection between sexuality and new life. In November 1921, he literally contacted the police to stop Sanger from using a public town hall for the American Birth Control Conference, telling the New York Times: Heinous is the sin committed…