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Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…Even the most skeptical reader of Freud will have to admit that the long, round, rigid barrel of a gun is bound to be—at least in America—a gendered symbol. I keep this ad up on my refrigerator because it gets a hearty laugh from almost every visitor. That’s a useful reminder of a central significance of guns that non-gun-owners often forget: They’re fun. They’re owned and used largely for sport. And when they’re not being used, guns can be fondl…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…pular imagination. In the Baton Rouge video, the good guy with a gun fires round after round into the chest of Alton Sterling, an adversary who’s pinned to the ground. In St. Paul, the jittery good guy with a gun, a rising tone of panic in his voice, stubbornly points his weapon at Philando Castile, a man slumped in a car seat who’s clearly not long for this world. In Dallas, the good guys forsake their guns entirely, sending a whirring bomb-dispo…

The Trumpocalypse: One Year Down, 999 to Go

By Jonathan Malesic

…o. It was made by Joey Del Signore, a non-church-going Catholic who offers round after round of excuses for Trump’s behavior. He then says people at his wife’s church think Barack Obama is the antichrist. If that’s true, then Trump is Christ, right? Del Signore, who’s 61, adds, “I think we’re going to see the end of the world in our generation.” I don’t think that’s really a theological statement. I think it’s an expression of short-sighted, resen…

Law Prof: Obama Under No Obligation to Appeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r General, defends acts of Congress that are challenged on constitutional grounds. Defending laws against constitutional challenge makes sense in our constitutional system: Congress thinks a law is constitutional when it enacts it and the President thinks so when he signs it. Defending the statute shows deference to those past decisions and also serves to give a court considering a constitutional challenge the best arguments for why the law is val…

The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…as it does a rousing rendition of the Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger ditty “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave.” Yet “On a Note of Triumph” was also, in its own idiosyncratic way, deeply religious, making use of the rhythms of liturgy and a self-consciously biblical tone, which was made all the more surprising by the fact that Corwin was hardly a religious man. A Boston-born Jew of Hungarian and Russian descent, he had spent Friday evenings in his yout…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…. I’ve done my mock packing. What is mock packing, you ask? Well, for this trip I have almost all new clothes, and I need to make sure they are sufficient for what I am about to undertake. So I tried on everything, including gifts from others. I’ve had to discard one pair of pants a gift from a friend in Indonesia, cause they are just too short on the waist and the leg (I am like a giant compared to the average Indonesian). Also those nifty dresse…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…ncludes people who don’t speak English, who have a completely foreign background and cultural experience. It took a lot of hard work but we reached a place a number of years ago where, while things are far from perfect, things work. We have learned how to be in community with others who are radically different from us. About three years ago we realized that in order to be authentic to gay and lesbian individuals in the pews and in our community we…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…side of Temple Square, cheerfully singing hymns from the screens of their iPhones or from green-backed hymnals, while a clutch of protestors—evangelical Christians, mostly, the same familiar, ragged gang materializing every conference—takes its place behind barricades on a small patch of grass. A stranger, upon learning that I don’t have one of the highly-coveted tickets to the Sunday Conference sessions, spontaneously offers me his last extra. Mi…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…sher the pope the stronger the papacy. The Roman Catholic Church has been around for two thousand years for a reason. They always win, or so it seems. My concern is that this spate of marvelous press renders it harder, not easier, to make a case for a horizontal model of church. If such a wonderful man is doing such a wonderful job in such a wonderful church, who am I to judge? Ask millions of former Catholics why they now constitute the second la…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…osophy of history, leaves no other way to understand it—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Huckabee seems to be selling tickets on the Titanic….