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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

…20th, mere hours after the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, pastor and professor Andre E. Johnson took to Twitter and started the hashtag #WhiteChurchQuiet to address the inadequacy of the white church in responding to police brutality and the harm that silence does to Black communities. The hashtag soon went viral, generating hundreds of tweets and retweets and quickly becoming a Twitter trending topic. J…

Hijab and The City

By Joanna Brooks

…im women a sense of solidarity that I’ve never felt with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda (even in those moments when—truth be told—I’ve found myself coveting pieces of Carrie’s wardrobe). Maybe because it’s because so many of the women I love and respect most in this world are Mormons who choose to express their love for God in the way they dress, consciously choosing lives of modesty, even when those choices—and especially the devotional…

The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…ublic activism, which included explicit public calls for city officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, to refuse to give permits for gay pride celebrations. So much for posturing as champions of the First Amendment. The BuzzFeed piece was an editorial misjudgement, in my opinion, and not only because it has given religious right pundits the opportunity for persecution posturing. Particularly in the absence of anti-equality advocacy by the subjects…

A Secret Family History Shows “Regular” Life Under the Reich: Sarah Wildman on Paper Love

By Sarah Posner and Sarah Wildman

…come looking for Valy. In the 1950s and into the 1960s a woman named Ilse Charlotte Meyer wrote from London to the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, searching for Valy. That was a revelation to me, and it also pointed to something else: none of us exist alone. We can’t really search for a single person unless we are willing to open up that search to community, or family, or friends. Finding her community became the key to fin…

From Engravings to Ultrasounds: The Politics of Imaging the Womb

By Elizabeth Yale

…o become accoucheur (or, less respectably, man-midwife) to England’s Queen Charlotte, immediately set about dissecting the body, layer by layer. He employed an artist to draw the cadaver as he worked. After this first lucky get, Hunter procured a series of bodies of women who had died during different stages of pregnancy. Twenty-three years later, he published a book, The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Exhibited in Figures, that offered the f…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…til the end (of his career), when he barely mentioned it,” Wacker told the Charlotte Observer. Indeed, a Google search on “Billy Graham” and “hell” yields few results that are not related to the recent book. Several articles that do turn up criticize the evangelist for soft-pedaling the idea. For example, The Baptist Pillar (“Canada’s Only TRUE Baptist Paper”) once stated that “Billy Graham has declared his allegiance with the blasphemous apostasy…

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…e Tribe of Burns, Oregon. In a recent press conference, tribal Chairperson Charlotte Rodrique said she is “offended by occupiers’ statements about returning the land to its rightful owners,” as the Wildlife Refuge stands on their ancestral lands. “This is still our land,” Rodrigue maintained. Archaeological evidence of the tribe extends back for 6000 years; they were removed in the late 1870s. The Refuge is part of Paiute ceremonial space. The Bun…

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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ed the events from his past “incisive,” Aiwanger can remember surprisingly little about them: “That’s beyond my knowledge.” Once again Aiwanger portrayed himself as the victim of a sinister conspiracy: “I am horrified how, with a document from my school days and the passing on of information… by a teacher, there are attempts to make me pay, both politically and personally,” writes Aiwanger. He ends with a threat: “The publications from teacher cir…

A Matter of the Heart: Talking to Gay Christian Rocker Jennifer Knapp

By Kristin Rawls

…rts and shows, as well as contributing to these dialogues we’re having. My phone’s ringing off the hook, and I’m participating as much as I can in discussions with LGBT lay people and clergy. There are so many people who want to have a positive dialogue about this. I’m getting to the point that I feel like I can engage at a positive level and contribute to that conversation. So, did you follow the recent change in the Presbyterian Church-USA? Th…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…uch an enduring aspect of Gen-X and early Millennial nostalgia. I may be a little over 40 and only an irregular consumer of TikTok videos, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that “He Gets Us” is hardly going to register with today’s youth. Gen Z is the least religious generation, and I’m pretty sure that this tech-savvy, culturally aware, and #VeryOnline generation is not going to be ‘won back to Christ’ by, for example, a heavy-handed qu…