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What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering

By Kentina and Naomi Washington-Leapheart

…ot live our politics at the ballot box or at the protest. On this Mother’s Day, in honor of the launch of the Poor People’s Campaign’s 40 Days of Moral Action, we are re-committing ourselves to revolutionary mothering. We believe that this ethic of love and justice has the capacity to change the world for Sophia and for future generations—including the children she herself may one day mother too. *Full disclosure: The organizations we work for are…

With the Pope at Ground Zero

By Anthea Butler

…nto the two craters left by the towers is a poignant reminder of both that day’s destruction and the endless tears that have flowed since that day. Many bought pictures of loved ones, and the pain in their faces was a reminder that is it never really over for them. For those of us who remember the homemade memorials and pictures of those who were lost in the towers, the museum and memorial grounds are a moving remembrance. So it was important then…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…y use of the term “fascist.” In a previous personal message sent to me the day before he read my accusation, he acknowledged our differences and asked if I wanted to have a conversation. I replied I would be happy to and briefly made my perspective on things quite clear. I then noted that others had also used that word to describe his position and sent him one such blog. I asked for his email so we could correspond at greater length. I figured tha…

Manhattan Declaration Asks: What If Jesus Had Been Aborted?

By Sarah Posner

…e wine; there would be no Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Martin Luther King Day, or Columbus Day (of course)! I posted this bit of nonsense to my Twitter account, and here are some selected excellent responses: @sarahposner Wow. I don’t get offended easily, but that’s pretty offensive. — Ellen Cooper-Davis (@Rev_Mother) December 23, 2011 @sarahposner No wine? Did it suddenly cease to be made after Homer praised it thousands of years before? — Jared…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…not an ordinary struggle, with defined objectives and the give-and-take of day-to-day politics, but what Reza Aslan described as “a cosmic war,” a struggle between pure good and outright evil, in which there can be no compromise, Russia’s involvement is a problem. Given Russia’s antagonistic relationship with several Muslim-majority regions, it may not be preposterous to believe Moscow’s Syrian intervention may strengthen ISIS rather than defeat i…

Hillary’s Faith, Trump’s Conversion: Two Questions Journalists Need to Ask

By Stewart M. Hoover

…, at least to the politics reporter. What Trump meant was that in the real day-to-day discourse of politics, the second-and-third-hand rehashed retail accounts on cable news that he pays attention to and that form the common political conversation of the moment, Hillary’s religion hasn’t been present. He was right about that. He was speaking to a context where religion does count to that common conversation—he was talking to a group of politically…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…ijacking—and the forces of injustice chose the hijacking.” Barber, perhaps best known for bringing down the house at the 2016 Democratic Convention, said that one of the manifestations of hijacked Christianity, was “slaveholder religion,” which not only justified the horrors of slavery and genocide against indigenous people, but in doing so, excised the parts of the Bible that emphasize liberation—because of the threat it posed to their power. The…

LDS Church Response to Prop. 8 Begs Question of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…e LDS Church also issued a statement: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice determined in a general election that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a woman. We have always had that view. Courts should not alter that definition, especially when the people of California have spoken so clearly on the subject. Millions of voters in California sent a message that tra…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…exism in our formal doctrines and church practices. I therefore viewed the day after the scheduled black mass as a day of mourning—mourning that, instead of seeking out the Other, we acted on the bases of prejudices and fears; mourning that, instead of looking for points of dialogue, we performed only denunciations; and mourning that my religious community participated in a pattern of exclusion and ostracization for which we, in many real ways, ar…

The Speech Mitt Romney Never Gave

By Joanna Brooks

…ights, torture, money, and power. At least not one robust enough to inform day-to-day conversation or decision-making, or politics. Which is startling given that the Book of Mormon—a text virtually no one dared to quote in public during this so-called “Mormon moment”—is extremely eloquent on war and peace, and the dangers that proceed from wealth and pride. American Mormons tend to hold our history of persecution as a kind of personal treasure, as…