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‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…g Trump’s election loss or seeing people they know personally get severely ill from Covid-19 and start to change—but others will not. What comes across most strongly is how difficult it is to help; how even trying can pull you down instead. The moments where family members lose friends or fail exams because of their QAnon-afflicted spouse or parent are some of the most affecting. Getting out is a matter of the person wanting to change. They have t…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…war to come, with only the reservation of who held the keys of command. Still, the enemies of the good must be punished, must be denied the safety of even a parched rocky hillside in a poor land. In 2002 and 2003, the grim infection of another war became more and more certain. I did not support this war. It was wrong, and I said so from my pulpit. I paid the price: enraged members of the congregation were certain that I had dishonored the troops,…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…the package of judicial reforms,” the imam wrote. Bermuda: Senate rejects bill man-woman marriage bill On Thursday, the Senate rejected “amendments to the Human Rights Act aimed at solidifying marriage as being between a man and a woman.” The legislation had passed the House a week earlier. From the Royal Gazette: A key turning point in yesterday’s seven-hour debate proved to be the speech from Ms Wilkerson, who became only the third PLP politicia…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…y the female shares and passed them over to more distant male relatives, still today. This is a clear violation. Still it is vexing to make sense of any uneven distribution based on gender. The simplest and most popular interpretation given is that men have a responsibility to provide (nafaqa) and women do not. Therefore, whatever she might inherit belongs only to her; while what he might inherit belongs to the family. For this we surely need anot…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…on of a small elite in this winner-take-all economy, the bulk of American millennials will face significantly lower lifetime incomes than their parents’ generation enjoyed. The digital devices that in some ways liberate them are also used by their bosses to further commodify and degrade them: to minutely control their work lives, even spy on their personal lives. Against this backdrop, to what degree do you feel that the new formations of folks ex…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…factor in contemporary church life. Bishop Carcaño worries that churches will pull back on their mission to preach and work toward economic justice. They are more worried, she observed, about managing finances than caring for the ill or the hungry. Not on her watch! “Trust God, not to turn inward but to be generous and share,” was her prescription for the current situation. Of course this Methodist bishop does not go it alone. She partners…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…ded the Klan’s right to march in the Holocaust survivor enclave of Skokie, Illinois. It has also defended Rush Limbaugh, so there you go. Still, it always makes for an interesting conundrum when the ACLU and TMLC are on the same side of anything. In Jones’ case, fresh off his stint burning a Qu’ran, the Florida pastor decided last week to ride the wave of ill-gotten publicity by going to Dearborn, Michigan to protest outside the Islamic Center for…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…awaken individuals and organizations from the unwholesome roots of greed, ill will, and delusion, it is usually being refashioned into a banal, therapeutic, self-help technique that can actually reinforce those roots.” Thanissaro Bhikkhu, an American Buddhist monk who deploys encyclopedic knowledge of the sutras in his cultural commentary, has pointed out crucial differences between traditional and modern (Western) mindfulness. “The Buddha himsel…

‘Jesus is my Vaccine’ Has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism

By Chance Bonar

…commands them to heal people’s physical bodies, so that then the apostles will be trusted to heal their spiritual illnesses. While early Christians agreed that the physical self and the spiritual self were distinct, not all Christians followed Chrysostom’s claim that it’s better to die of a fever if you want to prove your worth to God. Rather than viewing vaccinations, public health mandates, and medical professionals as an enemy, there is precede…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…h one. How do you feel about the cover? I love it. The top left corner is William Blake’s illustration of God speaking to Job from the whirlwind. Job is an incredibly important book in the Bible for the theological question of pain and human suffering. Job comes up in three novels I talk about—Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, and the evangelical bestseller The Shack, by William Paul Young, which is sort of a Book o…