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The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…Muslim Turkic group spread throughout Central and East Asia. More than 11 million Uighurs live in Xianjiang District of Western China, where officials have reportedly bulldozed over 800 mosques. Authorities have also detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in re-education camps. The scale of the suffering is difficult to imagine. In fairness, there’s been a lot of good reporting about the plight of the Uighurs. And yet I believe the outpouring…

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

By Sarah Posner

…sable here is that Fox (and Beck) have been questioned about Beck’s anti-Semitic broadcasts, have promised to end them, yet persist, unabashed. Simon Greer, president and CEO of the Jewish Funds for Justice, issued a statement on Wednesday about how he and other Jewish leaders met with Fox News president Roger Ailes and Beck’s producer, Joel Cheatwood, in July, during which: We spoke for almost an hour about the concerns held by many Jews and Jewi…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…Phelps (forcing him into his own tiny little closet) or the angels in Laramie, Wyoming that stood between those “God Hates Fags” signs and the funeral of Matthew Shepard are forms of fantasy picketing though a tad more literal than what I had in mind. This week, though the fantasy of fantasy picketing has become more real and more challenging for those of us in upstate New York. How does one support a family and town preparing for a funeral and…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…f them in Silicon Valley), he gets praise and Apple gets good press. Never mind that his $800 million is unlikely to find its way into the hands of those looking for work at a living wage. Theroux has also written on do-gooding in Africa, which he doesn’t find any better. Thoreau’s diagnosis of our philanthropic spirit was that we give because it soothes our own pain. “I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellow…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…l three “grades” are sacramentally ordained, the deacon is ordained to the ministry and not to the priesthood. The mistake made by those who argue against the restoration of women to the order of deacon is that they think if a woman can be ordained as deacon, then she can be ordained as priest. But that demonstrates a misunderstanding of the diaconate as a permanent vocation and does not make the clear distinction that is well-known in church teac…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…ven President Obama won’t use the word “poor” when it’s one of the most prominent words and themes in the Bible. I am always reminded of the Book of James when I observe the theory and theology of Rev. Barber: The biblical writer and Rev. Barber both insist that a vital Christian faith propels us into the struggle for basic justice, that faith without redemptive struggle is dead. We all owe Rev. Barber a debt of gratitude, both for his leadership…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Bermuda: Referendum on Civil Unions, Marriage Equality Set for June 23 Premier Michael Dunkley has set June 23 as the date for a referendum that will ask voters to vote on two questions: do they favor same-sex marriage and do they favor civil unions. According to the Royal Gazette, the group Preserve Marriage says its campaign “will likely encourage voters to answer ‘no’ to both questions.” The group’s chairman said the group will use paid advert…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…live as an expat, returning to visit my family from time to time. I won’t miss much. I won’t miss the horrible cable news, or the sanctimonious preachers, or the respectability blacks who wish we’d all just get out of the streets and stop protesting. I won’t miss the well-meaning white people who try to commiserate, but won’t have a substantive conversation, or commit to fighting for justice and equality for brown and black people. I won’t miss t…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…ncern that if Hillary Clinton is elected the government will shut down his ministry and all other religious activity. In a recent sermon series, “Leviathan Has Come to America,” he warned viewers that Leviathan has become “king of America,” that the government is coming against the Gospel, and that if the wrong person is elected (Clinton), the Constitution will be destroyed by a newly liberal Supreme Court. In a June 2016 episode with Gary Heavin,…

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…a Jerusalem city councillor, in charge of security, encouraged a crowd to mimic the Biblical character of Phineas (Pinchas in Hebrew), who murdered a fellow Israelite and his Midianite lover for the “crime” of miscegenation: I am calling out to all the Pinchases that are here … Moses didn’t act, Pinchas acted … every one of us has a mission … The Rebbe, who is here with us, expects us to commit acts of Pinchas. Mere hours after these incidents of…