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Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…well responds to prominent evangelical pastor David Platt’s apology for welcoming Trump to his church. “Sorry to be crude,” Falwell tweeted, “but pastors like [David Platt] need to grow a pair.” In the online backlash, including one that referred to Falwell as a minister, Falwell responded with the following tweets: https://twitter.com/JerryFalwellJr/status/1136056209679822849 Falwell’s crude and aggressive rhetoric is not unique to him. It partly…

But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate

By Candace E. West

…l. It was followed by 90 minutes of Trump trying to bully… https://twitter.com/elisamaza76/status/780578328352874496 and lie his way through the debate: https://twitter.com/AbbyHiggs/status/780580619025780737 Par for the course on a night that saw Clinton interrupted repeatedly by an increasingly belligerent opponent. https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/780603407996510208 Clinton stayed mostly on message while Trump devolved into incoherent ramb…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…ction. Ah, how we miss such battle calls now. Goyda, brothers and sisters. Come on! Fear, Old World, devoid of true beauty, true faith, true wisdom, ruled by madmen, perverts and Satanists. Fear, we are coming! Goyaaada! Goyaaada! And it isn’t just the Orthodox Church using this rhetoric. Ramzan Kadyrov recently posted a video promising to keep destroying Ukrainians and burning them, but also declaring in text messages that he’s fighting Satanism,…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…it does not require any punishment in this world. It is a sin that will accompany its committer in the life after death.” In the interview, Salman Odah stated that “even though homosexuality is considered a sin in all the Semitic holy books, it does not require any punishment in this world. It is a sin that will accompany its committer in the life after death.” “Homosexuals are not deviating from Islam. Homosexuality is a grave sin, but those who…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…er of the amazing things about him. He was approachable, answering his own phone and mail, meeting with complete nobodies like me. I thanked him for the basketball lessons that I had learned from him, but more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved we…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…entecostals. One reason for this was that Pentecostal volunteers—who would come in to teach job skills and do Bible study—outnumbered Catholic volunteers by about 15 to 1. Also in the city I was in the vast majority of inmates were from the poorer parts, where there are more Pentecostals. But the main reason for the dominance of Pentecostalism was because they believe in the potential for God to radically change a person’s life. The once-I-was-los…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…ovember 4, a statewide measure aimed at preventing same-sex couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents passed by a comfortable margin, just as a ban on gay marriage did four years ago. Conway should be Democratic territory. It’s a well-educated college town—in addition to Central Baptist, there’s the University of Central Arkansas and historically progressive Hendrix College—on the northern fringe of the Little Rock metropolitan area. But th…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…er-plate. Except for celebrating the Passover Seder, which brought family, community, freedom, and justice around the same dinner table, I had long abandoned the rhythms of Jewish religion. So as a grown-up I had found my community not in any Jewish neighborhood but in the network of organizers for racial justice, peace in Vietnam, and world-wide nuclear disarmament—a network centered in the Institute for Policy Studies, where I had been one of th…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…ivil engagement with the speaker by congregants, a goal several said their communities had accomplished. Younger Jews “scratch their heads,” and ask, “how can it possibly be true that Israel is not at fault in any way?” Sharon Brous, a Conservative rabbi and founder of Ikar, a nondenominational spiritual and social justice community in Los Angeles, told me they have “worked really hard over the past decade to build a culture within the community i…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…mpaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. In 2005, they printed 800,000 postcards in Canada “in a campaign that [argued] that the redefinition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples would promote pedophilia, pornography and unsafe sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am con…