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Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…ny County medical examiner. Mike Webster was a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who after his storied career lived an anguished life characterized by erratic and troubling behavior before his death in 2002 at age fifty. Omalu was initially shocked and puzzled when he found a peculiar tangle of tau proteins in Webster’s brain, a pattern of disease now referred to as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). After Omalu found abnormal…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…ed 22 people at an El Paso WalMart and 11 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh—articulate this danger, also called The Great Replacement Theory, as the reason for their heinous acts. Most recently, the white nationalist killer of 10 Black shoppers in Buffalo cited The Great Replacement theory in his own manifesto. White nationalism is predicated upon a platform of racism, religious beliefs, anti-government views, and/or conspiracy theories…

Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…ved their Jews, until they didn’t. From the city of Harbin in Manchuria to Pittsburgh. She tells a moving tale of reading Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice with her young son and wonders why he’s not as disturbed by its antisemitism as she is. She takes a virtual tour of a now destroyed synagogue in Damascus that has been virtually reconstructed for internet viewers, in all its grandeur and majesty—and not by Jews! She tells a powerful story of…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…g television adverts (running in Baton Rouge, Colorado City, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Tucson, and Minneapolis) “weird,” while suggesting that the ad campaign is actually a strategy to pave the way for Mitt Romney’s 2012 run. Unlikely. (And anyone who thinks Mormons are placing all their eggs in Mitt Romney’s basket hasn’t heard of Jon Huntsman.) Meanwhile, progressive Church members themselves are trying to re…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…he 1990s, violent Christian nationalists carried out the bombing of a government building in Oklahoma City, the bombing of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, and numerous bombings of abortion clinics across the country. But Christian nationalist violence has also experienced a resurgence in recent years. Christian nationalist ideology figured prominently in the violence of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; mass shootings…

May 21 Rapture Scheduled for 6 p.m.

By Lauri Lebo

…y colleague Bill Toland, who is the spirits and libations reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for some suggestions. Toland contributed the following: Death in the Afternoon A recipe verified in the 1935 humoristic celebrities’ cocktail book titled ‘So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon’ edited by the famous journalist and author Sterling North and Carl Kroch. As Ernest Hemingway wrote of the drink: “This was arrived at by the author an…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…Christian supremacy. The white supremacist shooter who wreaked havoc at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October reminds us that these hate-mongers also don’t give a damn about Jews, except maybe as the sovereign guardians of the land where Christ will return to save Christians. Egged on by Trump’s racializing protectionism, white nationalists continue to commit atrocities against not only people of color but also non-Christians regardless of race. They…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…Muslim institutions in such diverse places as Brooklyn, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Ross, North Dakota, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The mosque built in Cedar Rapids in 1934 is the oldest American Muslim institution and is on the national register of historic places. American Muslims refer to it fondly as the Mother Mosque. American Muslims’ community building efforts between the World Wars were so successful in shaping a specifically Ame…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…owards racism “justified” by the science of the body did not mean an abandonment of condemnation based on religion and morality. Rather, inferior race, now understood to be written on the body, was considered to be a sign of the immorality within. Today, white nationalist mythology blames Jews for a variety of social and economic changes in the U.S. Central to this mythology is the idea that white people are being replaced by people of color throu…

Senate Health Care Bill Satisfies Pro-Choice Legislators on Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…ome reports construed as a retreat from the Stupak Amendment. However, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette politics blog “Early Returns” on Monday published a statement from Casey spokesman Larry Smar which read: “The suggestion that Senator Casey thinks that there is no room for a Senate amendment like the Stupak Amendment that passed the House is incorrect and does not reflect his position or the statement I issued that explained his support for health…