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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

…GOP strategy memo she’s painted as: a middle-aged hag who lives in a cave with her 800 cats; unqualified to lead because her womb’s as empty as Jesus’ tomb; and hatching a master plan to suppress the aromatic scent of electricity. If I weren’t merely an outside agitator, I’d be sure to only cast my ballot for someone who’s birthed their own children, just like all the previous presid— wait, what? Anyway, Kamala cackles like Satan or something. Yo…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ug at the oddity of the idea, but grant that yes, we should pray that they will be brought back into right relation with God. But suggest that a Christian should pray for a Democrat, or that an evangelical Christian might be a Democrat… well, that is an idea best kept veiled. It stretches the bounds of Christian credulity to the breaking point. Democrats are the enemy you dare not pray for, the party you dare not join. And that’s just where we are…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…bt of gratitude, both for his leadership in the field and for this precious book, The Third Reconstruction. See here for Peter Laarman’s interview with Rev. William Barber, and here for the full range of responses….

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…Phelps more press? How does one respect the life and death of Devin Snyder without allowing Phelps to have the last word? Is picketing the picketers really the best solution? In my fantasies, I carry very persuasive signs that actually get those who hate fags, overtly or covertly, to understand that they need to change. Certainly a fantasy, but one that our civil religion depends on: educability. And if you want to check out some of the wonderful…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…with an alternative conception of power, equally robust, but more fully grounded in an ethics of fairness and equality, it will remain difficult to meet the challenges from the Christian Right. In the meantime, First Things will continue to thrive within its niche as a rooted redoubt of reaction against the flux of times forever out of joint, from which they are doomed to cry, like Hamlet, O cursèd spite / That ever I was born to set it right!…

On the Taliban’s Hit List: An Exiled Pakistani Singer’s Plea to Save Music

By Austin Dacey

…nd your religious or spiritual life? Islam and music have never been in conflict. Many people agree with the idea that Islam came to the Indian subcontinent as a result of some great literary and musical work of the Sufis. Pashtuns also have a number of great poets and saints, who always used music as a strong medium for spreading their message of peace and love. The Saudi-funded Wahabi sect, however, is said to be against this philosophy. The hea…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…eniere Caminada, he discovered that his parents and brother had died along with 800 other residents. Those who survived the flood moved “up the bayou” (as they still say in Lafourche Parish) to towns like Leeville and Golden Meadow. Today, what remains of Cheniere Caminada is a historic marker and a decaying cemetery. Beasts of the Southern Wild is not about saving the Bathtubs of Louisiana. It is about remembering them. “In a million years, when…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…around decolonization, multiculturalism, and self-determination. To begin with, why does the Orthodox Church practice the full-immersion baptism of infants? In fact, how and when baptism should occur has been a point of contention and identity within the larger Christian world for at least 1,800 years. Whether or not early Christians practiced infant baptism (paedobaptism is the technical term) is a matter of much debate; in fact, one might argue…

Double Helix: Who’s Your Daddy?

By Arri Eisen

…store. And it’s selling like hotcakes. According to the Web site, complete with the iconic 1-800 number and attractive female operator with headset, the IDENTIGENE test is “Fast. Accurate. Confidential.” It’s not the speed, accuracy, nor confidentiality that worry me so much (although plenty of problems lurk therein). It’s more the information itself, its power, and in what context it is received. Personally, I’m not too interested in the test for…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…m pulling for the atheists, because there’s no compelling argument for allowing religious organizations to be opaque about their money. And besides, there are plenty of ways to steal from nonprofits even when they do file 990s. The interesting thing about all three cases is that they reveal the compulsion to sort out the messy business of religion in America once and for all. But the wall of separation between church and state is neither entirely…