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The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

…the recent economic crises from many quarters has been to slash the safety net that keeps such inequalities from being even worse.      Any American could worry about these problems, but being the parent of two preschool-age children brings the questions home in a special way: How is America really doing? And specifically, how are we doing at raising generations who see problems clearly and have the guts to take a stand? Kids are growing up in sch…

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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

…e deterioration of organizational strength elsewhere in society. So it’s a net loss. Another very significant factor is that a large proportion of the underclass is either in prison or undocumented—and therefore disenfranchised. Do you think that any kind of spiritual awakening—or religious awakening, since people so often distinguish the two—is requisite for grassroots organizing? The book’s last chapter discusses a couple of passages in Walden w…

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Lying in the Name of the War Lord: Jane Roe’s Fake ‘Conversion’ is a Feature Not a Bug of the Extreme Christian Right

…was so controversial that the far right news site that published it, World Net Daily quickly took it down (though it appears to have been quietly reposted at some point). In it, Lane expressed doubts about the ability of the Christian Right to establish theocratic governance via the tools of democracy alone and thus suggested that violence and elections are not mutually exclusive, and that horrific confrontations, including acts of Christian marty…

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Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

…s than most this year. He’s a player of flair, lithe and lethal around the net. Born in Africa, he took advantage of his athletic skill to move to wealthy Europe at age 14, where the best footballers are treated like gods and paid even better. He’s the highest paid player in Italian club football, but but when he was traded from Real Madrid to Barcelona he told the press corps, “I mean to run like a black man so I can live like a white one.” This…

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Planned Parenthood Is Taking Over Government!

…re’s the latest one world order conspiracy from the religious right: World Net Daily reports that the American Life League, “the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life group in the nation,” is “warning of a perfect storm of circumstances that could set up Planned Parenthood as a quasi-governmental entity with the power to establish as law its declaration of a universal right to tax-paid abortions and autonomous rights to sexual ‘pleasure’ for childr…

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Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

…go in there,” Senyonga screamed, “and grab as many as we can!” In Austin, networks of pastors pray for the city’s revival as well, and part of that prayer takes place at crisis pregnancy centers. Trey Kent, pastor of the Northwest Fellowship in Austin, is part of a network of 40 pastors who have formed the Unceasing Prayer Initiative to ensure that the city is prayed for around the clock. At the Texas Alliance for Life’s Rally for Life in January…

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Paul Ryan Is Like Jesus, But It’s Not What You Think

…available to everybody and becomes popular. We should always have a safety net. Health care should always be accessible, basic health care always. But it should be available as a safety net, not as a general lifestyle that almost discourages people from seeking real human flourishing. The budget deal won’t make these arguments go away. Paul Ryan Jesus-ing the deal through Congress won’t end discussion of his claims that his views are in line with…

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Sin and the Cycle of Poverty

…t post from Joni Podschun, who advocates for access to food, robust safety net programs, and in-home care for seniors through her work at an interfaith non-profit service provider. You can also follow her on Twitter (@joni_pod). Neuroscientists recently released a report showing that high levels of stress caused by childhood poverty have a negative impact on working memory, leading to learning delays and long-term underachievement. These new findi…

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WaPo OpEd: Pope Francis and the Koch Bros Love and Serve the Poor Together

…to love the poor is to dismantle inefficient, big government social safety net programs like welfare that “undermine human dignity” and encourage “dependency” and devolve them to local programs and governments who will “reform” them to give the poor a dose of the tough love they need to get off their keisters and get a job. The Kochs must really, really love the poor, because among the ways that Freedom Partners has sought to help them out is by f…

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‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

…sted in the culture wars, and more interested in helping others and the planet. She argues that “where there was once the appearance of a monovocal evangelicalism there is now robust polyphony,” along with changes in activism that have “re-routed the flow of evangelical money, time, and energy, and are changing the demands on the US political system.” On that last point, at least, we have yet to see much, if any, concrete evidence. Take the recent…

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