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“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…that receive[s] no direct federal funding for operations.” That carefully worded statement is disingenuous and hides the truth about the extent to which taxpayers are supporting NPR and its liberal agenda. Lamborn has his staff hard at work untangling all those devious ways that your tax dollars support public radio (through college radio stations and the like). The assertion about the “liberal agenda” has been belied by numerous studies. The rat…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…rsy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke egregiously misrepresented an article on yoga and cultural appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff. I argued that Parke offered a “very simple and misleading” picture of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, and I stood firmly behind what I took to be the main thesis of Gandhi and Wolff’s article: white…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…rsy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke egregiously misrepresented an article on yoga and cultural appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff. I argued that Parke offered a “very simple and misleading” picture of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, and I stood firmly behind what I took to be the main thesis of Gandhi and Wolff’s article: white…

Sacred Dimensions of the World Cup: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…RD Director Gary Laderman discusses the sacred dimensions of World Cup soccer with SOB host Welton Gaddy as well as the politics of what counts as religious, if losing is a form of bad religion, and how playing a game can have implications in national life….

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ion that only the decline of the church could facilitate. Artists are free to identify as they please, but denying that they are Christian artists when their bodies and speech run thick with the Good News is every bit as believable as a human calling himself a taco just because he’s in a Taco Bell. …

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…Trump via tweet for “jobs returning” and “North Korea backing down,” and Trump’s “bold truthful stmnt about charlottesville”. The tweet in question is the only one that comes up in a search of Falwell’s Twitter for “Charlottesville.” Prominent Southern Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress—his First Baptist Dallas choir performed an ode of sorts called “Make America Great Again”at a Trump rally in honor of veterans that took place in Washington, D.C. on…

Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

By J. Michelle Molina

…ave provided is a key for pope-watchers on all sides of the political spectrum to read the style, the attitude, the “how” of Francis’ papacy. As this Jesuit’s sense of self in the world continues to unfold, it will be critical for anyone who wishes to engage the man to be attuned to the processes through which he has come to know himself. Understanding these terms might well provide a source from which persuasive power can be drawn. The specifics…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…Racial Identity During the Great Migration Judith Weisenfeld NYU Press February 2017 And finally, Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration is, I think, an instant classic. It resurrects worlds of black American new religious movements from World War I to the mid-twentieth century, including the Moorish Science Temple, Father Divine, the Black Israelites (or Black Hebrews), and the Natio…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…arismatic people can project. One can’t help but be impressed by how Coe struck everyone as the real deal, as God’s true messenger, even as he was carefully developing the most pernicious example of fake Christianity the world has ever seen. To be clear, I don’t mean “fake” in the sense that certain people (ahem) mean it in characterizing things they don’t agree with. I mean “fake” in the sense that the Rev. Eric Williams, who appears in the minis…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…of patriarchs who fear the loss of their power, the revelation of their corruption on clergy sexual abuse and its coverup, and an end to their dubious financial dealing, have aborted the Catholic community’s full potential to take on the current climate catastrophe in any credible and effective way. I’m not arguing that the full equal participation of all Catholics of whatever gender or marital status in their own church will heal the planet. But…