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What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…cludes, “…it’s clear that the baptismal practice depicted isn’t all that uncommon.” And that’s true. Millions of infants have been baptised this way over centuries (including me, by the way). What’s uncommon is for an infant to die, as was the case last week. So what happened? Well, the Romanian, Greek, and Russian press all make note of the fact that the priest baptized the infant face up while holding his hand over the infant’s face and mouth (s…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…ays identify proudly with the radical camp. I don’t think there can be any compromise with white supremacy or entrenched corporate power. But I do still wonder whether my side is really as radical as it claims to be. I worry about performative wokeness and virtue signaling and the kind of celebrity activism that these days is often fueled by Hollywood and hedge fund money (in some ways reenacting the much-derided radical chic of the 1960s). It’s p…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…see. In addition to opposing marriage equality the church also believes in Complementarianism, a version of Christian Patriarchy that advocates for the submission of women and children to men and believes only men should be in positions of leadership in faith communities. The Calvary Chapel network consists of almost 1,800 non-denominational evangelical churches around the world. It was founded by pastor Chuck Smith in 1965 in Costa Mesa, Californ…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…r. He implores all of us to see the connections among our struggles and to come together to build a powerful movement. He summons us to resist the divide-and-conquer strategy of the Pharoahs of our day, uniting to transform society for the benefit of all. Rev. Barber consistently emphasizes the sacredness of all life. He maintains that if we care about one death at the hands of a cop, then we have to care just as much about 2,800 deaths occurring…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…hat looked like towns in Zimbabwe, just as overlooked and beleaguered… Big companies have always sought cheaper labor, moving from North to South in the United States, looking for the hungriest, the most desperate, the least organized, the most exploitable. Press coverage of conditions in Apple’s factories in China has been anything but glowing. Yet when Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, says he’ll give his personal wealth to charities of his choice (many o…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ces, including a curriculum and a podcast series, to help members of local communities become informed and involved in confronting Christian nationalism in their own social milieus. People in local communities, reasons Tyler, have the best opportunities to influence their immediate political representatives, to help them understand that it is not anti-Christian to oppose Christian nationalist initiatives. “I’ve heard people say ‘[Christian nationa…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…t $3.84 million. • Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, head of the bishop’s Committee on Religious Liberty—the epicenter of the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the contraception mandate—and the man supposedly behind the investigation of the LCWR, lives in a 11,5000-square foot historic mansion that dates back to the first Catholic bishop of the United States. • And last but certainly not least, Newark Archbishop John Myers, who has com…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…s on either one side or the other, in sympathy with one leader or another, committed to one position or the other. Middle ground collapses.” Admittedly, the inter-religious university at Claremont will face challenges. Can the school maintain high standards for rigorous religious education? Will graduates continue to be well-versed in their own traditions? Or will the result be a syncretistic blending that pulls the new university away from any cl…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…the limelight because we’re only half Black. Balancing is a tricky thing, complicated by being a different binary than Black and White. Black and Brown? What even is that? In a sense, Blackness is flattened; neither complex and multi-faceted, nor reflective of a shared history among a diaspora. It’s exclusive and yet elusive. Don’t get me wrong, anti-Blackness is a horrible thing whose heaviest blows are dealt to those who aren’t mixed, have no s…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…same generosity of spirit to Beinart and all the accolades he received, welcoming him with open arms into the community of peace-seeking Jews that Lerner has written and spoken for—and to some extent created—for so many years. Yet Beinart and Lerner represent two rather distinct viewpoints spurring the growing Jewish American support for Mideast peace. The more popular view is Beinart’s, based on a rationalist ethic: There is moral good and evil….