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Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…itutions in such diverse places as Brooklyn, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Ross, North Dakota, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The mosque built in Cedar Rapids in 1934 is the oldest American Muslim institution and is on the national register of historic places. American Muslims refer to it fondly as the Mother Mosque. American Muslims’ community building efforts between the World Wars were so successful in shaping a specifically American Islami…

Why James H. Cone’s Liberation Theology Matters More Than Ever

By Daniel José Camacho

…ghettoized in the name of freedom and democracy?” Ferguson, Baltimore, and Cleveland have shown us that not much has changed since the summer of 1967. While Cone proceeded to reimagine theology and American Christianity, many Christians ignored him or rejected his work. The national spotlight brought upon Cone’s black liberation theology in 2008 by the Jeremiah Wright-Obama controversy led to some sympathetic hearings but also sparked Christian ac…

It’s Time To Ordain Women—Again

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ls. There is a huge groundswell of support on this issue. For example, the Cleveland-based group FutureChurch has been running a postcard campaign for a year or so, and through FutureChurch thousands of people have sent requests for women deacons directly to Rome with a copy to their local bishops. We have a broad spectrum of donors who have purchased books for bishops, and Paulist has begun sending to diocesan bishops across the country. If we ge…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…The Caravans which in turn launched the careers of such greats like James Cleveland and Shirley Caesar. Walker, singing in one of my favorite movies “Leap of Faith,” wowed the film crew so much that her granddaughter Tina Nance said Steve Martin sent her a bouquet of flowers with a card saying “you are the greatest gospel singer in the world.” For all that, she didn’t win a Grammy until 1995 for her album “Songs of the Church.” Walker’s voice and…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…Otis Moss II, the retired pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, participated in a telephone prayer session with Obama several hours before he was declared the winner. Hunter, who came to the media’s attention in 2006 when an arrangement for him to take over as head of the Christian Coalition, the political machine founded by Pat Robertson, imploded as it became clear that Hunter intended to steer it into more moderate waters….

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…ibition travelled to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum and finally to the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition served as the first major art survey of yoga in the United States and provided visual representations of yoga’s complex, dynamic history, ranging from philosopher-ascetics turning inward in pursuit of salvation through realization of the true self; to ecstatic devotees turning outward in pursuit of divine union with the Lord Krishna o…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…ar merely galvanized the nascent labor movement even more. Democrat Grover Cleveland had defeated Republican James G. Blaine for the White House two years earlier, in part because of Blaine’s well-documented fealty to corporate interests while serving as Speaker of the House. It didn’t help Blaine’s cause when one of his supporters, a New York clergyman, declared that the Republican Party represented the country’s last defense against “rum, Romani…

Want Marriage Equality? Show Me the Money!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…out comment. In Ohio, voters approved a measure that will allow casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. Four similar measures had been defeated in recent years, but this time the state’s reeling economy gave extra weight to arguments that the new casinos would create thousands of jobs. Where, may I ask, is the outrage at this little piece of immorality getting passed? I have scoured the newspapers in Ohio looking for the religious o…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…ut Walker finds: “Permitting same-sex couples to marry will not affect the number of opposite sex couples who marry, divorce, cohabit, have children outside of marriage, or otherwise affect the stability of opposite-sex marriages.” Oh, and about those children, Walker addresses the stereotypes that gays and lesbians are child molesters and would make horrible parents. Walker finds: “The children of same-sex couples benefit when their parents can m…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…nt of the delegates were members of minority groups, and male delegates outnumbered women delegates about two to one. To judge by these numbers, the Republicans still play to an America conceived as predominantly white. Racial prejudice against Obama appears in several ways. One is the denial by racists of their prejudice but their attribution of racism to others—a ploy known as projection. (Pollsters are having a difficult time estimating the ext…