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Why Immigration is Such a Key Motivator of Nationalist Aggression and Hostility

By Willie Young

…anation was wanting to deny President Biden a “win,” as another example of Republican intransigence enabling the blame of a Democratic administration. Political strategy is certainly part of the issue, but it doesn’t get at the deeper question: apart from the maximalist few who won’t stop until every last demand of theirs is met, why would Republicans, and Christian nationalists more specifically, want to keep this specific issue alive? A brief co…

Bad Karma: Life Lessons From Earl

By Anthony B. Pinn

…n sacred and profane, “right” and “wrong,” is blurred. But capital remains central. But what of the more complex arrangement that actually frames the notion of karma or “right action”? In the show, karma is plucked out of Buddhism: No mention of the “four noble truths” and the relationship between suffering and desire. Earl crosses things off his list, but what of the surrender of desire through the eight-fold path? Yes, there are ways in which th…

A Victory for Conservatives in Revised AP History Curriculum

By Peter Laarman

…ry will be sending the white students off to college still ignorant of the central reality played by white racism (“Southern way of life,” indeed) and thus more likely to recapitulate the callousness of their forebears, while the students of color will be deprived of an urgent healing truth. One must also wonder whether the Right’s fierce determination to perpetuate the essentially religious belief in American exceptionalism has anything to d…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…ble finding doctors who will write them a prescription for lethal drugs. A central Washington man diagnosed with pancreatic cancer asked his doctors for the drugs, but not one would approve his request. Stephen Wallace died on April 8, after what his family said was a painful struggle that could have been avoided had doctors respected his wishes. “Patients need professional medical support for their choice, not abandonment at their moment of need,…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…ies that “don’t have this problem” because everything is controlled by the central government. “As contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be, I know there isn’t a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth”—one of two lines in the speech that triggered the evening’s loudest and longest bursts of applause. The president surely knows that Niebuhr endorsed the theory of democracy; not as an inhere…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…ommunist-backed forces. It’s no coincidence that Catholic defection to the Republican Party during the Reagan era coincided with the start of John Paul II’s papacy. John Paul’s emphasis on opposition to abortion as a core Catholic value—and his warnings about a pro-choice “culture of death“—perfectly meshed with the Republican Party’s use of abortion as a wedge issue. But even before John Paul, the U.S. bishops’ conference had, in 1976, meddled in…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…cloud on our future that climate change presents—all seem to reinforce our central point, which is that without disruption, connection alone won’t deal with our problems. But without a strategic approach to disruption, which also requires connecting across our differences, we won’t achieve system change either. My basic advice to activists is to pay attention to how to build a movement that’s prepared to endure through the inevitable pushbacks it…

Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…Christian experience (which, I argue in Satan in America, actually forms a central theme in the American religious experience). Angels, portrayed as warriors fighting beside evangelical Christians, became a hugely popular representation of spiritual life. Billy Graham’s 1975 Angels: God’s Secret Agents increased this fascination with angels, demons, and the possibility of spiritual warfare. Graham insisted that what he viewed as an increased inter…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…exhibition explores the various paths of journeys undertaken to reach the central fixture of Islam through manuscripts, photographs, textiles, relics, and what it means to be a haji (a pilgrim of the Hajj). Notable hajis represented in the exhibition include Lady Evelyn Cobbald, the first British woman to perform the rituals of Hajj. Two awe-inspiring highlights include one of the oldest copies of the Qur’an from the 8th century, and a visually s…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…graces. Pride is not the root of all sin, for some LGBT folks shame is the central sin. Are there any of these sins and graces that resonate more with you and why? The Queer Christ model that I call The Hybrid Christ, both divine and human—a blend of both. For me, as a queer person of color and an Asian American who is also gay, I often feel like I’m never able to bring the two together, I’m always forced to choose. Will I be Asian American today…