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Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…starting an institution that was eventually shut down by the federal government for its mistreatment of inmates. Or something had happened to this institution that the Quakers hadn’t anticipated. I started to investigate if historians had answered this question. No work offered satisfactory answers. So I decided to do it. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I want readers to know two things: that a reformative rather retribut…

Super Bowl Sunday, American Holy Day

By Gary Laderman

In times of economic crisis, political turmoil, environmental disasters, and global conflict, Americans rely on a time-tested, highly effective collective response to the challenges we face: play ball. Though this weekend’s Super Bowl is certainly a much needed, entertaining distraction from the real world collapsing around us, it provides more than just a temporary refuge from harsh and painful realities. This annual event—as American as guns an…

Anti-Immigrant Fervor Is a Part of America’s Story

By Robert Bartholomew and Anja Reumschussel

…care: the fear that closeted gay and lesbian employees of the federal government would compromise national security by being susceptible to blackmail by communist agents. At least 5,000 government workers were purged from the civil service as a result. Their crime: the suspicion of being gay. During the Catholic scare politicians and ultra-conservatives stoked fears that resulted in riots in several cities. In 1844, the streets of Philadelphia ran…

Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’

By Shaul Magid

…the post-emancipated Diaspora. This is how it was articulated in the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism in America which stated that “we [Jews] no longer consider ourselves a nation, but a religious community.” While Reform Judaism no longer holds to this maxim, it did serve as the cornerstone of the denomination for much of its existence. The decision of Tzedek Chicago (which is not Reform) to drop the more neutral non-Zionist stance in…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…s, writing dozens of books and countless articles arguing against any government regulation of the environment. So influential is Beisner that Southern Baptist scholar Donald McDaniel wrote in his 2011 dissertation that when the nation’s largest Protestant denomination wades into environmental waters, the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention “ensures that its content will be mainly informed by Cal Beisner and his Dominionist ecology.” “Hu…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” Steps have been taken to reorganize the Diocese within the Episcopal Church u…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…triumphalism aren’t so different from what we’re hearing from Israeli government ministers or Christian Zionist leaders. But unlike Benjamin Netanyahu or John Hagee, Bronze Age Zionists swim alongside (and sometimes argue with) literal neo-Nazis in the fetid, irony-drenched swamps of ultra-reactionary internet subculture. So what are nice Jewish boys like these doing on 4chan? Answering this question might offer insight, not only into the nature o…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…rds of them by chance when opening a box of documents at the University of Pittsburgh archives, a box that had been donated by Cutler himself. Why didn’t Cutler destroy the documents instead? He’s dead, so we’ll never know for sure. When he was interviewed in the early 1990’s for a NOVA special on the Alabama experiments and was confronted with the irony of their being carried out also during the Nuremburg trials, Cutler responded, “Yes, but they’…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…ing continues to cite Tanton groups as authoritative, tellingly describing NumbersUSA as an “immigration reduction advocacy organization” in an August 2010 piece and citing FAIR in a story claiming that “illegal aliens” would “trump veterans at US medical offices.” Groening also praised a Mississippi immigration raid, citing the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (MFIRE); listed on FAIR’s Web site as a “local group,” one…

Election Survey: White Evangelicals Remain Cultural Outliers on Race, Trump, Immigration

By Candace E. West

…ent news cycle are these: On Saturday, an anti-Semitic, Trump-supporting gunman killed 11 people while they attended services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On Sunday, progressive Jewish organization Bend the Arc released an open letter to Trump demanding that he stop targeting Jews, Muslims, people of color, journalists, LGBTQ people, and immigrants with lies, harmful policies, and violent rhetoric. The Trump administr…