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The Racial Dimension of Trusting in Police Violence

By Eric C. Miller

…that summoned opprobrium on the Right. In the first two cases, government agents attacked white suspects living on compounds. In the third, they invaded the home of a child Cuban refugee, famously pointing assault weapons at terrified civilians. On his radio show, around this time, conservative commentator and Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy offered this advice: Now, if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are…

America’s Racist God Meets Miss Celie: Darren Wilson Not Indicted

By Anthea Butler

…fice to this god of white supremacy was Michael Brown’s. Darren Wilson, an agent of that god, was vindicated. For his reward, he is showered with blood money from other followers of the racist god. No one should be surprised that Darren Wilson was not indicted by the grand jury. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch played the role of Pontius Pilate, washing his and Darren Wilson’s hands of impunity, while the sacrifice, Michael Brown, was deemed worthy of…

Mars Hill May Be Disbanding, But Big Questions Remain

By Becky Garrison

…gh Sutton Turner resigned on September 19, 2014, he is still listed as the agent and member of Resurgence Publishing LLC, which is the entity established to handle the sale of Mars Hill’s merchandise. While the process of amending the corporation documents can take several weeks from the moment the organization files the change, Turner has been gone for over six weeks at this juncture. Perhaps when Mars Hill files their annual report, due December…

Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall

By Becky Garrison

…reates”bestsellers. At present, Driscoll seems to have been dropped by his agent, and his relationship with his current publisher Tyndale remains unclear. A cursory glance of Mars Hill’s history illuminates a church embroiled in “dissent” since the formation of Mars Hill Church* in 1995 (though Driscoll, Leif Moi and Mike Gunn co-founded the church itself the following year, in 1996). Mars Hill’s growing controversies remained hidden, due in large…

When Churches Do Business

By Sarah Posner

…pring 2012, but eventually cut off negotiations. The diocese’s real estate agent accidentally forwarded the couple an e-mail in which a diocesan official said the church was no longer interested in a deal “because of the potentiality of gay marriages there.” The couple sued under the state’s anti-discrimination law, and Coakley weighed in on this point (emphasis mine): Our laws provide important protections for religious organizations and people…

The Two Mythologies Behind True Detective Come Crashing Down in Finale

By Joseph Laycock

… Buried in the bottom of one story about the case was a report from an FBI agent that no pentagrams or animal blood were found at the church—even with a “cult informant” guiding the investigation. The second source is the book The King in Yellow, written in 1895 by Robert W. Chambers. Part of the fin de siècle decadence movement, this work is an anthology of horror stories about a fictional play called “The King in Yellow,” which renders anyone w…

“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…ratification, and lack of discipline? Lust after all is a powerful bonding agent for couples, and the great motivator when it comes to procreation, which Callister has nothing but awe for: It is almost unbelievable to think that God has given to His children the power that is most prized and sacred to Him—the power to create life. It’s such a vacuous notion of sexuality. Why is it “almost unbelievable” that human beings procreate? After all, to na…

Vatican, ‘Cool Pope’ Blast UN Link Between Sexual Abuse Scandal and Church Attitudes on Gays, Contraception, Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…the pontiff. While that article attempts to determine just how much of an agent for change Francis might actually be, the big question, as commentators like Mary Hunt here on RD have asked in one form or another, is how much headway he can make—or wants to make—on reforming church doctrine on the role of women, contraception and LGBT issues. But as the report released today by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child slamming the Vatican for…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…y to things porcine Kaminsky called himself a “ham idolater” and owned his agent’s description of him as a “professional hamthropologist.”) Then there’s Ari Stern, owner of Culturefix, a bar and gallery on the Lower East Side, whose trendy monthly supper club held an event called “Passover for Goyim, A Very Traif Seder Plate.” The traditional ritual centerpiece at this event—the seder plate whose five (or six) foods recall the divine delivery of t…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…rown long ago, but the U.S. has no moral standing or credibility to be the agent of that overthrow. The U.S. interest in Syria is not perceived by much of the world as a human rights interest. If the U.S. cared about human rights, it would not have armed Saddam Hussein after he gassed the Kurds in Iraq; it would not still be arming the Egyptian military after its coup and murder of thousands; it would not be arming Israel without demanding that…