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This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…effort anywhere you can. Turns out, though, there were no more jobs in America that didn’t require a union card, and “Bigod nobody is going to make him join anything whether it is the Elks or the Moose or the Mice or the Muskrats or whatever. It is the principle of the thing with George, and, moreover, being a native American and a veteran of the last war, he has a rather narrow prejudice against being ordered around by guys who talk like they ju…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…taps into a huge reservoir of feeling deeply buried inside millions of American voters. And those feelings run so deep precisely because they are inextricably linked to values. “No Surrender” is not a sensible basis for making policy. But it is a powerful expression of a whole web of values that many Americans cling to for dear life, at a time when they feel that the world around them is swirling faster and faster, moving closer and closer to the…

This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy

By Kyrah Malika Daniels and Dianne M. Stewart

…ry was fabricated and declaring “[if I must] create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Later in the interview, he tried to pivot and reframe his comments, but the cat is out of the bag. Let’s be clear: this is no ordinary anti-Blackness. It’s compounded anti-Blackness. Through innuendo, the mischaracterization of Vodou as America’s favorite racial s…

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?

By Galen Watts

…im it with pride. Interestingly, it’s possible that AA pioneered this rhetorical strategy. In the 1930s, AA was a quite liberal organization, seeking to distinguish itself from conservative religious traditions. It did this by invoking the rhetorical distinction between “spirituality” and “religion.” Indeed, scholar Robert Fuller has argued that the phrase “spiritual but not religious” was coined by AA. Over time Western societies have liberalized…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…sly is. If we still had a Democratic Congress, we’d have a much fairer tax code (plus better health care, plus a thousand other things). But okay, that’s me. When I look at vast movements in history—fascism, socialism, American capitalism—they arise out of contexts that were, themselves, created by lots of large-scale circular movements which are impossible to trace precisely. Who knows, perhaps the collective weight of Occupy-style consciousness-…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…iberal arts education and to have their behavior heavily regulated. Though codes of conduct may vary, evangelical universities like ORU, Liberty University, and Regent University all prohibit students from using illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, wearing provocative clothing, and engaging in premarital and homosexual sex. Bob Jones University actually prohibited interracial dating up until 2001. Oral Roberts believed that the survival of his own…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…They do not want the church. They are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God killers.” Babini has since denied ownership of these words (though the Guardian noted his legacy of “accusing Jews of exploiting the Holocaust.”) Nevertheless, the Italian Bishops’ Conference, with some predictable prodding from the American Jewish Committee, felt obliged to declare the remarks: “entirely contrary to the official line and…

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…ntracts to family friends; and how he ordered his staff to violate IRS tax code. Falwell’s been able to get away with such behavior partly because he doesn’t fear his board of trustees, which is essentially just a collection of close friends of the family. As noted above, Mark DeMoss, the one trustee who did speak up in disagreement of Falwell’s endorsement of Trump, was immediately removed from the board—a testament to Falwell’s Trumpian fragilit…

Miracle Whip: Pope John Paul II, Self-Punishment, and The Fast Track To Sainthood

By Paul Gorrell

…c at large was being introduced to the problem of pedophilia within the American Catholic Church. Perhaps most disturbingly, we learned of the systemic coverups in which bishops reassigned priests, failed to involve the authorities, and looked the other way with full knowledge that sexual assaults were occurring. The pedophilia crisis revealed the lengths which bishops and priests would go to protect an all-male celibate clerical power base. The p…

Is Michelle Obama Out of Line?

By Tamura Lomax

…y, racism, and hatred, which continues to plague everyday experiences of African Americans and others in our country. So, in this vein some might say Obama’s comments were both warranted and true. To be sure, I am one of those people—I too desire to believe in the possibility of real change towards a radically just society. However, in light of this particular historical moment and all that this moment represents, I have to say that Obama was “out…