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Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…and to recognize the things that are not normal. It is possible that some Americans may become increasingly numb and acclimate to a “New Normal.” Yet, it is also possible that more people may become dissidents. Patricia Miller: Atwood said that when she wrote the book the premise seemed somewhat outrageous even to her, and I sort of felt that way at the time. However, I also recognized that it got to an essential truth that gives the book much of…

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…of the free. The film The Promise, reminds us that a hundred years ago, an American ambassador, who had no connection to the Armenian people, stood for American ideals in front of one of the world’s great powers. Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians. Yet, we take no responsibility. We offer…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…pply chain shows that Reed’s critique remains as relevant as ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QTjFCPLtI Nike has failed to promote justice for workers for decades. In 1997 filmmaker Michael Moore lambasted Nike CEO Phil Knight in “The Big One” for allowing young teenage girls to produce Nike sneakers in Indonesian sweatshops. About a decade later social justice educators Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu travelled to Indonesia to live on Nike’s s…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…lip from Part 2 of your “Church Like Home” series, archived below: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNwp8xyBXAh/ When I watched it my knee-jerk response was excitement; Finally, a popular mainstream pastor is talking about getting rid of exclusion, and he’s local! This is huge! My friend, who recently experienced the painful ramifications of church exclusion, seemed hopeful that this tweet meant what he thought it meant: that The City Church was declar…

WATCH: RD’s Neil Young Discusses How Trump Is Dividing the Religious Vote

By The Editors

…Rev. Welton Gaddy, host of State of Belief radio, interviewed RD’s Neil J. Young on his most recent post, Leave it To Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old. Watch the interview below (just under 20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=AQgtTjiEujE…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

…ry, the Mormon practice of polygamy shocked the Christian sensibilities of Americans, who considered it a blatant form of immorality and an offense to God. Mormons, however, argued that it was a religious obligation, which meant that it was protected by the First Amendment. They did not argue that other Christians had to like it, but rather that Mormons had a right to be different—even in the face of intense disagreement, even in the face of animo…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ted States and how groups or movements become targeted as a threat to “the American way of life” and demonized. … The article makes brief mention of the theological-political vision of the late-Rousas John Rushdoony, a founder of “Christian Reconstructionism,” which calls for a nation built on Christian ideals and strict laws drawn from the Bible. This “Dominionist” doctrine, it said, inspires groups and networks like the Council for National Poli…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ater pardoned by Ronald Reagan. But the man knew what he spoke of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw In sharp contrast to the bleakness of “Mama Tried” stands the deep hope of the greatest Christmas song ever written, “If We Make It Through December,” with its trusting assertion “I plan to be in a warmer town come summertime.” Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to. You couldn’t listen to a line like tha…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

Colorado’s fetal personhood ballot initiative petition failed to get enough valid signatures, and so the measure will not appear on the ballot, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced this morning. According to the Denver Post, some of the signatures were deemed invalid, so the petition was found to have only 85,800 valid signatures—305 signatures short of the required 86,105. Jennifer Mason, speaking for Personhood Colorado, said tha…

The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’

By Leah Pannell

…“The Hamilton Mixtape.” I thought to myself, “He’s done it again.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jz1VRfdbmY In the spring of 2015, I completed my master’s thesis on theology and the arts. Coming from a Pentecostal tradition, I often wrote on how the sacred exists outside the walls of the church. I was determined to integrate my love of musicals with my theological work. When I discovered the Hamilton cast was almost entirely made up of people o…