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

By Christophe D Ringer

…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 outliers. We’re in the grasp of the politics of death over whose lives can be sacrificed (just as Black Lives Matter protesters across the nation). It did not and does not have to be this way. There’s still time to choose solidarity…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ng.” That’s what newspapers should do, right? The news is not the “Jewish” news, it’s just the news. The renaming seems to me a recognition not only of journalistic realities but of cultural ones. Here my best example is also an item of full disclosure: The Forward published my personal essay about how not-Jewish I am, despite my Jewish heritage, and what other Jewish publication would do that? I am a prime example of the audience that the Forward…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y. Those are the good things happening. But then you’ve got these internet rumors that Obama is a Muslim—email chains that are like a virus, something that infects society, and keeps perpetrating this lie. The internet facilitates a destructive alternative reality. I think that it feeds that desire to have the world be different than it actually is; as the conspiracy theorist wants it. Back when the John Birch society was handing out tracts it was…

Of Love and Lodging: Doctor Who Part VIII

By Gabriel Mckee

…ng, the Doctor stands in for him at his job (with great success). Craig’s frustration at this invasion of the extraordinary is palpable. What right has this intruder to underscore how utterly conventional he is? The contrast between the two is the meat of this episode, and at first the Doctor comes off as… well, as the villain, really. But after seeing how Craig sees the Doctor in the first half of the episode, the second half begins to show us ho…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…nd providing for defense. Reconstructionist theocracy, based on the Reconstructionists’ reading of the Bible, gives coercive authority to families and churches to organize other aspects of life. In this view—one that also meshes with Tea Party rhetoric—the Fed’s control of monetary policy is a prime example of federal government “tyranny.” North argues that the Federal Reserve is unbiblical because it usurps power not legitimately held by civil go…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…he Vatican articulated growing support for unions in encyclicals such as Rerum Novarum, many a prelate worried that they might prove a gateway out of the Church and into the clutches of godless radicalism. This tale of churchly opposition to the early labor movement is a relatively familiar one. What’s new in Union Made are the stories of printers, glovemakers, blacksmiths, seamstresses, and the like, who insisted that trade unionism was fully com…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ion to Israelis “would it not be better to befriend those who hate you?” struck many readers as both naïve and hostile. And then there was that final clincher—that “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” in today’s culture of violence. Critics of Israel, both Jewish and non-Jewish, might have misgivings about Israeli policies, but singling out “Israel and the Jews” as the world’s worst offenders sounds to anyone’s ears like anti-Semitic cons…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…n the show, his goal now is both “preaching the gospel” and “to get people ready.” But this twin mission runs into a problem—and a sales opportunity—because “there’s only four companies that make twenty-year shelf life food.” Of these four, only two pass Bakker’s supposed quality requirements. Bakker’s show is dedicated to making sure you have plenty of opportunities to buy these top-grade survival rations. The up-front costs are high. For example…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…e of color get is that the cops are not our friends. But has the average protester who’s never come up against the “man” felt that? Does that moment of realizing you can’t trust the structures become a transcendent moment that re-orients someone, or does it just send you home? Time will tell….

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

…from a fake news site. Not like Jon Stewart fake news. Or even Onion fake news. Actual fake news. “By the way,” Stetzer added, “if you are a pastor you should already know that no one can make you officiate anything. In fact, you can refuse to officiate an interracial marriage. You’d be an idiot and a racist, but you wouldn’t be arrested.” The other “story” Stetzer highlighted claimed “a sodomite ex-con turned author, Bradley La Shawn Fowler” sue…