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When the Golden Rule is Used to Silence Dissent and Protect the Politically Powerful

By John Stoehr

…non of lies includes lies about the covid pandemic, culminating in a death toll now exceeding half a million. Their repertoire of lies includes lies about the election, culminating in the worst attack on our government since September 11, 2001. Their stockpile of lies includes The Big One repeated Sunday by three GOP senators and one GOP House leader to the detriment of millions of television viewers. How does a republic deal with parties that lie…

Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space

By Peter Laarman

…ffering. The grief we feel on January 20 flows not just from Covid’s awful toll but also from our anguish over the obvious fragility of American democracy and our nation’s ever-worsening structural injustices—appalling inequities that are too often euphemized as “disparities.” I want to focus on suffering and the religious dimension. Just as soldiers once insisted that no one is an atheist in a foxhole, so too were there plenty of non-religious in…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…ou (hint: promise candy), and act as if they’re all yours. Remember: large numbers of Muslims walking through bucolic scenery is especially reassuring to Hungarians. Incidentally, if you try to order a TSA uniform and your name is, say, Muhammad, the least of your problems will not be flying again. Actually, many of these ideas could end badly. For you. So think twice. Stop, drop and Tootsie Roll.™ Hooded young men with candy, after all, push arme…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…elplessness, the dynamics of trauma. “Trauma really is about the moment of freezing,” said Deaton. “What is traumatic is when there’s nothing that can be done.” Collins, he said, sustains a kind of trapped tension throughout the books—that feeling that you’re “never really in a safe place.” After speaking with Deaton, I found myself thinking more about that concept of safety. In contemporary warfare, the battlefield lacks a clearly defined frontli…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…’ as it is used in legal and policy-making documents by such bodies as the United Nations and the European Union but also to those many reforms in secular law governing the sexes, sexuality, reproduction, and the family that the Vatican associates with what it calls ‘the gender theory.’” Case notes that “The US constitutional law of sex discrimination that [Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg helped establish mandated precisely what Ratzinger feared the…

You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…he novel—named Philip Roth —describes the new social order as it takes its toll on his family and his Jewish neighborhood in Newark. The Lindbergh administration adopts a kind of liberal fascism, with programs to make Jews into “better Americans” by relocating families out of their neighborhoods and into rural communities “where parents and children can enrich their Americanness over the generations.” Life becomes increasingly unbearable for Ameri…

Jennifer Knapp and Me: Coming Out While Evangelical

By Suzanna Krivulskaya

…s right in her suspicions. The shame, guilt, and weight of my sin took its toll, and I graduated with good grades but little hope for the future. It was 2008, after Ted Haggard, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was exposed for having a gay sex affair, but before Jennifer Knapp came out. I had no role models and no theology to back me up. I had been shocked to hear that some Episcopalian professors I befriended thought tha…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

The Tyranny of Politeness

By Daniel C. Maguire

…Medicaid expansion. The result? Harvard and CUNY researchers say the death toll from 25-state ‘opt-out’ may be as high as 17,100 annually; hundreds of thousands more will be harmed by depression, untreated diabetes, and skipping mammograms and pap smears. Who were the victims of these Republicans? Fast food workers, nursing aides, restaurant servers, child-care workers, and the hospitals that serve the poor, especially the black and hispanic poor….