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Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…st response to this tweet comes from another RD contributor, Sarah Morice Brubaker, who tweeted: “*pinches bridge of nose, sighs heavily* A social construct, being social, exist[s] in some contexts and not others. Jesus was a 1st c. Palestinian Jew so he didn’t have white privilege, a signature style, a favorite country song, or an opinion about the designated hitter.” https://twitter.com/smoricebrubaker/status/1287922127870537735 It remains uncle…

PCUSA’s Nod to “Traditional” Marriage Understandable, but Not Accurate

By William E. Smith

…n added first cousins to this list in 1546, which makes it very similar to today’s marriage laws. At the time, of course, it would have struck many as a significant break with tradition. 3) Were widows and widowers permitted to remarry? Here, I don’t mean to reference the twentieth-century debates around divorce or even their sixteenth-century predecessors, as interesting and relevant as both of those debates are. Instead I want to draw attention…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…he bill is aimed at limiting the free distribution of Israel Hayom (Israel Today), the free newspaper owned by American casino magnate and Republican super-funder Sheldon Adelson. The same Sheldon Adelson who, at the inaugural meeting of the Israeli American Council in Washington on Sunday, said, “I don’t like journalism.” Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer explains the anti-Adelson bill that advanced today: The law, proposed by MK Eitan Cabel (Knesset) and…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…l have turned to so called “narcosaints.” From San La Muerte to Jesús Malverde to San Judas Tadeo, these marginal saints offer their protection to all of those made vulnerable by the current “narcoculture”: drug addict, drug trafficker, and police officer alike. * (Jorge Sifuentes Cañas, “Marcial Maciel era un sujto de psicoanálisis: Vincente Leñero”, El Milenio, Miércoloes 4 de Agosto de 2010)…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…this week and as was hinted at in the Church’s own statement and a Deseret News editorial today—by the need to create an endowment capable of sustaining the global physical infrastructure of Mormonism (temples, churches, universities) even as the bulk of the Church’s population shifts to the global south and tithing revenues flatline or even drop. This is no simple Creflo Dollar morality tale. This is story about history and global patterns of we…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…ationale is that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, an argument that would, if true, implicate the entire Palestine solidarity movement (not to mention many Jews today and throughout history). Many of the loudest media figures agreed. And not merely the expected sources, like the Free Press’ Bari Weiss, who lamented the “rising wave of antisemitism and illiberalism [that] have swept the country.” In the Atlantic, Franklin Foer asserted that the age of…

Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…e, I’m compelled to ask where the sites of crucified people and places are today. Jesus was crucified by the Romans for political sedition, for serving as a threat to the imperial occupiers of his day. His life calls us to point out sites of violence and crucifixion and resist them with all of the fury love can bring. I personally don’t believe the cross is a site of redemption (many Christians don’t), but I do believe it asks us to take the reali…

Rising Christian Right Movement, New Apostolic Reformation, Emerged as a Mid-20th Century Splinter of White Supremacy

By Keri Ladner

…enounced, even while churchgoers flocked to the revival services). The NAR today seems to have left behind the overtly pseudohistorical belief that claims people of British/European descent are the true Israel of the Bible. But the leaders have held on to many other beliefs that emerged from British Israelism, including that God has called them to rule over the rest of creation and the embrace of a political messianism that justifies insurrection…

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

By SJ Crasnow

…at culminates in the extermination of non-whites. In the white nationalist worldview, “white genocide” threatens to overrun the U.S. as a result of “overly inclusive” immigration policies that threaten to allow immigrants (who are coded as non-white) to replace white people. Ben Lorber, writing for Political Research Associates,* explains that another book, The Culture of Critique, also significantly influenced white nationalist ideology. Written…

Religious Freedom Not Harmed by Tenth Circuit Decision in Utah Marriage Case

By Sarah Posner

…ant to perform or decline to perform a religious ceremony is unaffected by today’s ruling. Opponents of marriage equality have long argued that it infringes on religious freedom in other ways, outside the walls of churches, standing up, they say, for the bakers and photographers who don’t want to supply their services to same-sex weddings or commitment ceremonies. But the Tenth Circuit shot down that argument as well, pointing out in a footnote th…