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Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…e, we in the global climate movement can be proud of ourselves. We have a good start. The middle will matter—and the end game can’t even begin to be seen yet. I find myself thinking of that movie, “The Day After”—a graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear war. (My first child was just one year old and the movie scared us so much we had a panic attack with him in a Chicago parking garage.) COP21 will deal a blow to climat…

Power, The Presidency, and Social Change

By June O?Connor

…st “met” Dr. King in the fall of 1968, months after he died, when I was a rookie teacher at a liberal arts college in Chicago. Diane Allen, an African-American student energized by the Black Pride Movement, asked me to direct an independent study course on the writings of Dr. King. Feeling young, overworked, inexperienced, and ignorant, my first inclination was to say, “no, I’m sorry but I won’t have time,” or “I haven’t read his writings,” or “yo…

Al-Qaeda calls Obama “house Negro,” Muslims Answer

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…Since many of Obama’s policies in the Middle East revolve around moving troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and taking a harder stance on Pakistan (both countries with strong al-Qaeda presences), al-Zawahiri is obviously reacting out of panic. Obama’s promises to end the war in Iraq, close Guantanamo Bay, and use more diplomacy in the Muslim world all translate to more international cooperation from the US and less support for al-Qaeda. Without inter…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…d that a little over two-thousand Christian Right leaders and supporters trooped to the nation’s capital for the Family Research Council’s annual Values Voter Summit, a group of concerned Christian leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss another pressing issue related to values; the use of torture. While the Washington gathering saluted the nomination of Sarah Palin, extolled the virtues of opposing abortion, same-sex marriage and embryonic st…

Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to organize the Poor People’s Campaign, pulling together poor people and moral leaders from across the country to unite across lines of division. Just two months before his assassination he traveled to Chicago to enlist the women of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), which included in its ranks 10,000 dues-paying, welfare-receiving members in over 100 chapters. At the meeting, welfare rights…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…66,666 on Sunday. This indie gem by Cameron and Colin Caernes is a “found footage” horror film, purporting to be a lost episode of a late-night talk show called Night Owls that aired on Halloween 1977. Faced with faltering ratings and imminent cancellation, host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) takes a chance by bringing on a series of spooky guests, including “Lilly,” a girl who was rescued from a Satanic cult and is allegedly possessed. The stor…

Make Way For The Homo Superior: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 6

By Mark Dery

…, “for dust you are and to dust you will return,” the source text for The Book of Common Prayer’s graveside homily about “ashes to ashes” and the title, incidentally, of a 1980 Bowie song). By outfitting his Martian messiah in campy, retro-futurist gear borrowed from the prop room of 1950s’ rocket-operas (“Keep your ‘lectric eye on me babe / Put your ray gun to my head,” Ziggy sings, in “Moonage Daydream”), Bowie provides enough ironic distance fo…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

Every Friday in Lent, a group of activists has stood outside of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with a large banner reading “When did we see you a stranger and make you feel welcome?” The line is from Matthew 25, and the activists have also chosen Matthew 25 as their alias. The strangers being referred to in this action are the many undocumented Americans being targeted by the Trump administration. There are close to a million undocumented i…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…istians in Africa. Speaking on an LBC phone in, Justin Welby said he had stood by a mass grave in Nigeria of 330 Christians who had been massacred by neighbours who had justified the atrocity by saying: “If we leave a Christian community here we will all be made to become homosexual and so we will kill all the Christians.” “I have stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of Christians who had been attacked because of something that had happened in…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…of the Democratic Party before 80,000 screaming fans on a stage meant to look like a Greek temple of democracy, he spoke on the anniversary of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech — delivered 45 years ago on the steps of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial, an American temple of democracy. Much has been made of that coincidence, generally along the lines of “a dream fulfilled.” And yet, the subtle religiosity of Obama’s sp…