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Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…ple who would benefit from health care reform and other progressive social policies—Miranda believed that the kids would be better served learning to trust that God, not the government, would provide for their physical needs. It was at this point that Miranda decided to display her own trust in God by submitting the movie ticket receipt for reimbursement from the Salvation Army, taking a daring stand for truth, 501c3 be damned. She later told me t…

Here’s What Hospital Care Could Look Like in a Post-Roe World

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…hospitals in the South had similar restrictions. Doctors told us how these policies limited the treatments they could provide to pregnant patients with conditions ranging from leukemia to kidney disease. After reading the Supreme Court’s draft opinion that stands to overturn Roe v. Wade this June, it’s clear that our findings will have a new relevancy far beyond what we initially aimed to study. To understand what medical care after Roe will be li…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…tical where one school in a district might decide to adopt trans-inclusive policies, while another rejects those same policies. He acknowledges that “it sucks” for trans students attending the non-affirming school. “But, holy cow, as a religious guy, I understand too that we can’t repeal the fall of man,” he continues. “You can’t just get rid of every bad thing that exists and still have a free society, a democratic society.” Parsing out Mero’s pa…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…here and in Europe. But this violence isn’t a simple response to American policies (nor is this evidence of a congenitally Islamic inability to accept criticism), and cannot be dismissed as such. There are a few points to keep in mind as we try to understand how an amateurish fourteen-minute film produces such a dramatically disproportionate and wholly offensive counter-reaction. First, the storming of the US embassy in Iran was quickly hijacked…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…tate of Israel is finished.” Clearly, making a comparison between Israeli policies and these of apartheid-era South Africa is an incendiary charge in both the United States and Israel. In Europe it is more commonly heard. The claim will make you a lot of enemies on the political Right, and earn you points on the international Left. Israel allied with South Africa The Unspoken Alliance is not directly concerned with the Israel-South Africa compari…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…ries (e.g., convoluted literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and behavioral policies required for black enfranchisement and interaction with whites). Such practices are rooted in colonial uses of Christianity to circumscribe black life. Colonial use of Christianity—or “Christianization”—is the employment of “Christian” rhetoric and identification to construct meaning in social and political life. This has included establishing specific conceptions…

Why Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton

By Lauri Lebo

…emocrats as the racists supportive of slavery and post-Emancipation racist policies. Barton frames the details for maximum impact on contemporary politics, to an increasingly growing audience. Like Barton’s larger revisionist effort to develop and perpetuate the narrative that America is a “Christian nation,” the “Republicans-are-really-the-party-of-racial-equality” narrative is not entirely fictive. Some historical points Barton makes are true; b…

A Letter to the Pope in Advance of the Synod: Why Must I Get My (Lutheran) Marriage Annulled?

By Randall Wedin

…I feel that I understand the history and reasons for the church’s current policies— in an ideal, perfect, and sinless world, all first marriages would endure. But we are human, and we do not live in such a world. Thankfully, the gospel and grace of Christ’s message is that we do not have to be perfect and sinless in order to receive God’s love. It appears to me that the strong, clear theological message of God’s love and forgiveness is obscured b…

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…or, or at least indifference towards, “tough on crime” and “law and order” policies. Politicians have been able to pass harsh sentencing laws and build more prisons in part because deeply entrenched racial prejudices make the general public less likely to sympathize with the low-income African Americans most affected by these policies. But it’s more complicated than just racial prejudice. It’s difficult to pin down exactly how people come to their…

Reconsidering Reagan’s Racism: Trump is the Culmination of The Gipper’s GOP

By Neil J. Young

…ions for segregated private Christian schools aligned neatly with Reagan’s policies. In the White House, Reagan’s staunch anti-communism and his expressed, if inactive, support for religious conservatives’ social issues, including opposing abortion and gay rights, helped strengthen the bond. His anti-affirmative action and “War on Drugs” policies, couched in the language of “fairness” and “safety,” provided a more socially-acceptable agenda than t…