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In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…e approaches to resolve the issue. Unless our responses are proportionate one injustice will inevitably be met by another injustice. Freedom of expression is paramount in Islam. This is why differing rulings have existed in the corpus of Islamic jurisprudence. These include opinions as wide-ranging as the permissibility of date wine consumption by Iraqi (Hanafi) scholars and of charging interest by Meccan scholars. Additionally, even if López Prat…

Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!

By Peter Laarman

…es that refers to “opposition to redistribution as part of the basis for a new order of shareholder dominance,” let alone that ties contempt for the poor to white racism. Evangelical Protestants, especially the white ones, just don’t think that way. They don’t think about systems. They think in classic petit bourgeois fashion about somebody getting something that they don’t “deserve” and haven’t “earned.” My friend Bill McKibben nailed this a long…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…transgender Americans and members of other marginalized groups. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is somehow still in office despite being indicted on highly credible felony fraud charges in 2015, issued the legal opinion that Governor Greg Abbott used as the basis for his brutal attack on trans children and their families. While Abbot is Catholic, Paxton is an alum of Baylor University, a school affiliated with the Baptist General Convention…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…ou should follow all the links in Jenkins’ piece. But the sales pitch of a new vaccine doesn’t seem like the right frame for that story. It might be a shoehorn too far, so to speak. For one thing, folding the vaccine into a culture war narrative lets the manufacturer off far too easily. They claim their shot is 90% effective against the original strain of COVID, and that it “generates an immune response against the omicron variant.” That’s a less-…

I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…itutionalized racism of the seminaries could not be questioned. Among the unexamined powers these six white men hold is the ability to establish the rules on how a conversation will unfold. They can either silence or direct the discourse so perspectives voiced by the disenfranchised can be dismissed as unbiblical. They could feel good about the anti-racist proclamation they made, and even express righteous indignation if accused of being racist. I…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ou’ve shared your vulnerabilities…but it’s not just mental health, it’s vulnerabilities in general. CS: Which is fascinating. Troll farms became a big topic in 2016. Were you picking up on anything like that, the organized use of trolls, before 2016? CK: I was picking up on the methodologies already in place; they just hadn’t been scaled in the way that troll farms scaled things. The methodologies of disinformation and radicalization, and now elec…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…alk—standing up for his son, same sex marriage, and his deeply held beliefs. That is the mark of a person of the year. While I like Pope Francis as much as anyone, I need concrete actions to back up the sentiments. Until the dogma changes, talk is cheap….

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…ning reality of an increasingly savage class divide. The concept of moral injury is usually applied to the damage done to military veterans who feel an acute disconnect between what they were told was a noble cause and the horrendous things they must witness and sometimes do. But now it becomes increasingly clear that the concept has much wider application in a thoroughly corrupted country whose marble-incised ideals (“Equal Justice Under Law,” et…

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…his crude structure established by the Prophet Abraham to commemorate the Oneness and Truth of God. Now, for me, that was all that mattered. Even when a woman to our right said (in English, nonetheless) that my hair was showing, and it was slightly longer than my scarf at certain points; I had no thoughts for her except this one. Wow, I am so INTO this Ka’abah, so drawn to it and yearning to circumambulate around it, and if I can to get close enou…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…her book is published that way except encyclopedias, dictionaries, and telephone books. You don’t want to read those books, you go to them for authoritative answers and you don’t argue with the dictionary. If you’re playing Scrabble you go to the dictionary to settle the argument. We’ve encouraged people to think about the Bible as this kind of book, a source of authority, the final word, not to be debated. I think that helps people to think that…