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Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…tes faces shifting economic and geopolitical patterns, the Muslim-majority world will become increasingly important to the direction the world takes. That also includes the global relevance of democratic institutions, which is good for us, since right now the Western world is economically troubled, and challenged by rising authoritarian powers. Arab and Muslim countries worlds are pushing strongly for democracy, democratic inclusion, and fair p…

Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…d Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy J. Russell Hawkins Oxford University Press May, 2021 Stone, a hard-right, Trump-supporting minister from Georgia, had spearheaded the denunciation of critical race theory and intersectionality. Litton, meanwhile, was a winsome preacher from Alabama who recently had made racial reconciliation a centerpiece of his ministry. To some, the two candidates represented a referendum on…

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…sn’t mean the FFRF will actually get anywhere, should it decide to sue. In today’s courts, said Ledewitz, entanglement simply “doesn’t cut it any more.” Unless the government is actively requiring citizens to do something, courts today tend to be sympathetic toward public expressions of religion. “If he sues, he won’t have standing,” said Ledewitz. “Not on the constitutional claim.” In its statement, NASA explained that it had received the letter…

Updated: Netflix’s Gay Jesus Upsetting Brazilian Christians Has a Centuries-Old History

By Bernard Schweizer

…tmas Eve. The good news—pun intended—is that not only was nobody hurt, but today Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that Netflix will be allowed to continue streaming it in Brazil. According to AP‘s Diane Jeantet, the Court’s president wrote that “It is not to be assumed that a humorous satire has the magic power to undermine the values of the Christian faith, whose existence goes back more than two thousand years.” Amen. There is a strong déjà-vu qua…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…and they helped create a realignment of forces that continues to plague us today. How does that show itself today? Primarily in the anti-immigrant movement—the lobbyists, Minuteman vigilantes, and racist think tanks that support them. It is here that the idea that the United States is or should be a “White” country takes on the form of a policy issue. If you follow the discussion among anti-immigrant groups, the dominant discourse is about how the…

A Short Theological Take on Why Messianic Jews Are Christians

By Sarah Posner

…red, with its recurring hope for the Second Coming and even the end of the world.” When, he asks, “in previous history have rivulets of Jewish messianics received such largesse?” He concludes, “Today the mask is coming off: publications disseminated by Christian missionary groups increasingly are admitting that messianics are their offshoots, not derivatives from past Jewish-Christians.” (emphasis in original) Cook goes on the quote from conservat…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…GBTQ+ people in general, and trans people in particular, into a homicidal crusade (a term I use intentionally) against an enemy branded as demonic, corrupting . . . monstrous. As such, it encapsulates the extent to which 21st century Christian nationalism isn’t just a set of policies or beliefs, but a story; and not just any story, but a Victorian Gothic fantasy. LGBTQ+ people, along with other vulnerable minorities in this country, are suffering…

No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda

By Andrea R. Jain

…e United States with his version of yoga and gave his famous speech to the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, which triggered the speaking tour that would take him all over the country, other Americans’ embrace of yoga was stirring plenty of conversation. Consider Pierre Bernard, a turn-of-the-century American social radical, sexual deviant, and early modern yogi. Bernard discovered yoga in his boyhood when he met an Indian yogi…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…h during his overly long career, but something I feel should be celebrated today as a badge of honor for the old American Communist Party, despite any other nefarious designs it entertained. The revived US labor movement thereafter made a signal contribution to the fight against Hitler and Tojo by means of a grand compact struck with the government regarding war production. The government got labor peace (for the most part) and an incredible outpu…

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…ed efforts to expand access to family planning for women in the developing world as “contraceptive imperialism.” During the run-up to the historic 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, which John Paul bitterly objected to for its emphasis on reproductive health care, all the Catholic cardinals met at the Vatican to denounce the conference as “cultural imperialism”: Neither the Cairo conference nor any other forum should lend itself…