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Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…reduced to a kind of majordomo or personal assistant. He fixeth my parking tickets, he secureth me a good table in the restaurant, he leadeth me to book contracts. Even in these minor tasks, the invocation of God seems more of a courtesy than a necessity.” Gone, too, from Osteen’s theology is any mention of topics that might intrude on happy thoughts: Osteen avoids using current events in his messages so he doesn’t get sidetracked in controversy….

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…had very little, somehow food and other necessities were abundant at Tent City… Tent City was a project of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, an organization in the lineage of the original Poor People’s Campaign that is also an important part of the history of the Kairos Center and its predecessor, the Poverty Initiative. Organizations like the Kairos Center have been building toward the new Poor People’s Campaign for many years, primarily thro…

New York City a Glenn Beck Radio Free Zone (for now)

By Joanna Brooks

…sired ratings. Which makes, at least momentarily, the boroughs of New York City a Glenn Beck radio free zone. (Word has it syndicators are looking for a new outlet.) Perhaps Beck’s self-styled turn to the prophetic last summer and fall—which included forays into the world of Black theology and the mysteries of the Bat Creek Stone, as well as his lachrymose and prayer-scented DC Rally in August —didn’t go over so well with hardboiled conservatives…

“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…hat flashpoint of what was internally dubbed the “Baltimore Uprising,” the city saw an appreciable uptick in social and political engagement. Many leaders in the city’s churches were faced with the challenge of providing members of their communities with physical as well as spiritual food. There has been a feeling that the church needs to be a genuine driver of change—not another server of empty rhetoric, and definitely not another actor complicit…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…azine article and our statement. Some of those folks are now a part of The City Church. Many of them moved because they assumed The City Church was more aligned with their views on inclusion/exclusion and how relevant policies would be enforced. Likewise, I’ve come to know people who left The City Church for reasons of exclusion and are now a part of EastLake. Pastor Judah, you are a gifted communicator. I harbor no negative feelings for you. You…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…st stories are, of Rudy Giuliani coming in to see his daughter playing Sim City, starting to give her advice, and she snarls at him, “Dad, you run your city and let me run mine.” The story is usually told to talk about how complex and accurate Sim City is but it may also tell us something about how certain skills and interests run through family lines. I was especially interested in Zoe’s discussion of why her avatar lacks the ability to instantly…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…d sleep over at each other’s house. Neither of them wants to live in a big city, not even a city with solar power and recycled water. If cities have to be built for the people who want them they will leave that to older sister. Where would their settlements be built? Obviously, in the Sinai. Lots of land, no people, people looking for a land. They have been told that Masdar City, with its narrow streets and shaded walks, is the pet project of an A…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…race-conscious update to the anti-abortion message. Since late December, a number of anti-abortion organizations have made public and prominent hires of activists who frame their anti-abortion work in such terms: Pro-Life Unity hired a vice president, Samuel Mosteller, from the ranks of the “black genocide” faction of the anti-abortion movement; Georgia Right to Life announced the hire of Catherine Davis to lead outreach to African Americans by cl…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…cation, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourg…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…top thinking about us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here? If the number of partners one has, the amount of time one spends in clubs, and what kind of sexual abuse one has suffered in their lifetime makes a person gay, then I suppose I ought to turn in my lesbian card. I can count the number of sexual partners I have had in 49 years on two hands and have some fingers left over. Not because there weren’t offers, but because, as a general r…