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What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…d resistance to Phelps as profound support of Devin Snyder, if not necessarily of militarism per se. As Jimmy Carter once “committed” lust in his heart, I have picketing and angry speech in my heart. I may even have speech verging on unreasonable speech in my heart. I live about an hour away and where I will be on Saturday is unclear. Where Devin Snyder and those who grieve her will be, though, is quite evident. The dilemma remains. It is part o…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…sday, the religious right will not be letting him off the hook quite so easily. While conservative evangelical groups haven’t revived the Hussein linkage, two days before Kennedy’s committee was scheduled to meet on Daschle, Focus on the Family began mobilizing its supporters, calling on them to contact their senators and urge them to vote “no” on Daschle’s nomination. Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said that…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…w both enslaved persons and poor whites were denied literacy before the Civil War. He implores all of us to see the connections among our struggles and to come together to build a powerful movement. He summons us to resist the divide-and-conquer strategy of the Pharoahs of our day, uniting to transform society for the benefit of all. Rev. Barber consistently emphasizes the sacredness of all life. He maintains that if we care about one death at the…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…The Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a four-day conference called “UNVEILED: Unveil Hope Truth and Love to the World.” The gathering was held from December 29, 2008 to January 2, 2009. The evening program on the last day was a marvelously choreographed series of inspirational talks, lectures, music and prayer. But this Christian gathering in the name of “unveiling” hope and reconciling love foundered on—what else?—partisan politics. The devoti…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…s into the family tree, the British public might focus on expelling the family of hemophiliac inbreds that built its obscene wealth through colonialism via the blood, sweat, and tears of a global populace it perceived as beneath them. And, as has been revealed, Meghan is now too Black for the royals, blamed for every trial and tribulation this group of grifting parasites encounters. Meghan is basically a modern-day Helen of Troy or the “little jer…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…el a twinge of concern whenever anything happens in Jerusalem. Notre Dame will take years and millions of euros to rebuild. The American church fires are just one more infuriating symptom of a nation turning against its own citizens, though it is encouraging that, in the wake of Notre Dame, donations to the Louisiana churches have begun to surge. I wouldn’t underplay the seriousness of what happened in Paris, Jerusalem, and Louisiana. But I do fin…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…oed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Baptists to an eternity of torture and torment. With the “awoman” line, they finally got a taste—the smallest sample—of what it’s like for some of the rest of us; for the nonreligious, the religious minorities, the non-Chr…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…hing the second viewpoint. ‘Sin’ is not in their vocabulary. We cannot be silent while this debate rages. Let’s tell our culture that Jesus Christ’s amazing grace has the power to transform people whether they are gay or straight or anything in between. ++++++++++ New leader of Coral Ridge Ministries to Deemphasize Conservative Politics? Before his death in 2007, D. James Kennedy was an influential, albeit lesser- known, religious right leader and…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…ing. In an effort to demonize a political opponent, Beck and Fox News scurrilously attacked George Soros, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor. No one who truly understands “the sensitivity and sacred nature” of the Holocaust would deliberately and grotesquely mischaracterize the experience of a 13 year old Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary whose father hid him with a non-Jewish family to keep him alive. Many other Jews survived the…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…ur next book? I am planning a book about the works of the women in history who ministered as deacons. But, before that, I will be running a four-week Massive Online Open Seminar (MOOS) on the past, present and future considerations of Catholic women deacons. The seminar will be online and free, and will include video presentations by myself, by William T. Ditewig, Ph.D. and by Gary Macy, Ph.D. This book and an earlier book featured on RD, Women De…