Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction
…stochastic terrorism? Until we address the systemic causes underneath those responses, the violence is likely to escalate….
Read More…stochastic terrorism? Until we address the systemic causes underneath those responses, the violence is likely to escalate….
Read More…try; a vigilant wiping away of the fog of these stories. In a response to Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood’s reflections on blasphemy Judith Butler offers theoretical depth to the moves the prime minister makes in his letter. Butler traces how the state’s co-optation of progressive values renders those values a prerequisite of citizenship, referring to the Dutch government’s screening of prospective migrants by monitoring their responses to a video of…
Read More…as” was a reliable headliner at conservative Christian events such as the Values Voter Summit, signaling that it had penetrated into the evangelical consciousness. Behind this of course were deep fears about changing values and changing culture. As PRRI’s Robert Jones noted in The End of White Christian America, “White Christian America was a place where few gave second thought to saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to strangers.” The rise of “Happy Holidays…
Read More…dman retweeted a woman who urged people to burn down TST’s headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts. Her tweet urged arsonists to attack a building where people live because she didn’t like their religion. But when TST spokesman Lucien Greaves urged his Twitter followers to report this post as abusive, Twitter inexplicably suspended Greaves’ account. Greaves announced he would sue Twitter for religious discrimination, setting a chain of events in moti…
Read More…bstantive. Bedbugs and a Bari book The first is a tweet by a Georgetown professor in response to a report that the New York Times offices were infested with bedbugs. The tweet consisted of five words, “Bret Stephens is the bedbug.” This was ignored in the Twitter world until somehow Stephens, who was not tagged, found it and then wrote an email to its author and the dean of his university deriding the tweet and calling it offensive, even anti-Semi…
Read More…h in order to win the Important Faith Vote: Darren Dochuk, an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, connected the Democratic engagement with Matthew 25’s message to a broader effort “to carry the mantle of a potentially, if not large but animated, progressive Christian left.” “There’s also a certain sense of urgency to answer back and to win over as broad a constituency as possible, even cut into what is a pretty solid bl…
Read More…equires discussion. I argue that the racialization of Jesus as “Black” conflates the scholarly attempts to uncover the “historical Jesus” with the “Christ of faith.” The historical Jesus is the reconstruction of the life and teachings of Jesus based on a critical historical method which also considers the historical and cultural contexts in which Jesus lived. In other words this is the attempt to reconstruct the life of Jesus of Galilee as a livin…
Read More…nt line work. Netflix, now wallowing in staggering profits, expects us to salaam when it puts 2% of its cash assets into Black-owned banks. Glory hallelujah! One can multiply examples, but the sum of the good these corporate “citizens” are doing really doesn’t amount to diddly. And meantime, what about the rogue “citizens,”who are likewise free to do what they want? What about the Exxon-Mobils of the world who choose to use their 14th Amendment ci…
Read More…lain how the chosen peoples of America are destined for greatness; its Manifest Destiny. This also explains why the suggested replacement of Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day faces an uphill battle. In 1977 indigenous leaders from around the world organized a United Nations conference to promote indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Their first recommendation was “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America,…
Read More…are on the line, but even some rank-and-file pastors, Christian college professors and administrators, and those who run and work for evangelical ministries might not be regretting their support for the “no enemies on the right” approach that has clearly characterized the conservative, mostly white evangelical mainstream for decades. To be sure, puncher of protesters, evangelical radio host, fascist children’s book author, and “Jericho March” rall…
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