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Right Wing Christians and Radical Feminists Form an Odd (Transphobic) Couple

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ly rejected the claim that allowing trans folks to use the facilities that best match their gender identity leads to any increase in reports of harassment or assault in such spaces. It just doesn’t work that way. In fact, if anyone has anything to fear it should be transgender people since they’re actually more likely than their cisgender peers to be harassed and assaulted in sex-segregated spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms. And with high-pro…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ers to reopen the economy. Our ugly history of social Darwinism is perhaps best exemplified—or revealed—by the Tennessee protester who famously brandished a sign reading, “Sacrifice the weak, Re-open TN.” The now former chairperson of the planning commission in Antioch, California suggested letting the virus run its course to kill the weak, elderly and homeless in order to relieve health care and Social Security costs. These perspectives are not o…

Bad Karma: Life Lessons From Earl

By Anthony B. Pinn

…the possibility that the United States as a nation has not lived up to the best of its democratic ideals, has not represented in its internal practices and foreign policies the commitment to freedom that fuels its rhetoric. And, while we’re at it, we might throw into the mix some attention to our materialism and its awkward and distorting presentation. There is something useful in examining the policies and practices of our nation and demanding th…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…ionship with Jesus Christ” will get to heaven. (I’m not alone here, by the way; a growing number of evangelical Christians agree with me.) At the same time, the most moving and culturally important visions of heaven are those created by the conservative believers. These are the visions that move people to action: to be faithful to One God, for example, or to martyr themselves. I would like to believe in heaven as a concrete reality in the future,…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…article’s closer: A tough businessman and a philanthropist who has given away hundreds of millions of dollars to causes in Israel, the United States and Asia, Adelson—who has been there and done that—was nonetheless sufficiently emotional, when presented with a sculpture of Jerusalem, to wipe a tear from his eye. And speaking of tears, the best case scenario for Israeli news consumers: Adelson only spoke to American reporters so they had an alter…

Blank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft

By Peter Laarman

…ng dominating and exploiting the weak. Domination is the pattern we know best, after all, and the fact that we may choose to ignore the very long shadow cast by chattel slavery in our culture doesn’t make that shadow any less significant in the shaping of our consciousness. I have been doing some small group work lately with unemployed and underemployed people who have felt the mean edge of employer contempt in both large and small ways. They a…

Op-Ed: A Few Things I Wish Barack Obama Had Said

By Garret Keizer

…sumes to question my sincerity and judgment simply because I aspire to the best expression of the best ideas I have. “In the beginning was the word.” That too is found in the Bible, but it is every bit as true of political change as of divine creation. On His Senate Vote to Hold Domestic Spying Blameless Were I asked to provide a single challenge to the notion that ours is a nation rooted in the principles of the so-called Abrahamic faiths, I woul…

Bagels Aren’t Enough

By Jay Michaelson

…cal, and more than a little awkward. It’s hard to see Jewish Millenials speaking in tongues. A tongue sandwich, maybe. This leaves those of us invested in a Jewish future contemplating either smaller, boutique forms of Jewish engagement, or perhaps a Judaism that transcends the Jews. Perhaps the best of Jewish spirituality becomes as accessible to non-Jews (i.e. 99.5% of the world population) as the best of Jewish humor. Or perhaps anti-semitism w…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Passover are scheduled, as it were, in ways that make them more likely to overlap, as they do this year. Because both holidays have assorted food restrictions, they can be hard to observe in parallel. Lenten practice varies, but many people give up indulgent foods, such as alcohol or chocolate, sacrifices that can make it hard to participate in a Passover seder, where alcohol is part of the ritual meal and choco…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…g down from a high, and literally fell to the floor. “God, I have tried my best to ignore you and to do things my way,” he remembers praying. “I’m broken. I’m broken and in need of fixing.” A classic prodigal son story followed. Tchividjian recommitted himself to Christ, entered the seminary, became a minister. He married and had three children. He started the New City Presbyterian Church, a 450-member church in Coconut Creek. Tchividjian’s “class…