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What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…in overt ways. Cohocton is a small town, with a population in 2009 of about 800 people. It is in upstate New York. It is not my small town, nor is it likely yours; and yet each of these places is someone’s neighborhood. This time, it is only an hour away for me. Picketing as “The Workingman’s Means of Communication” On March 2, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in response to a series of prior decisions around Westboro Baptist Church’s pi…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…when it’s one of the most prominent words and themes in the Bible. I am always reminded of the Book of James when I observe the theory and theology of Rev. Barber: The biblical writer and Rev. Barber both insist that a vital Christian faith propels us into the struggle for basic justice, that faith without redemptive struggle is dead. We all owe Rev. Barber a debt of gratitude, both for his leadership in the field and for this precious book, The…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rtisan politics. The devotional speaker who had been invited to address the 800-plus crowd that evening spoke mainly about the need for Christians to think and act “eschatologically,” orienting their practices always to their vision of ultimate reconciliation which is portrayed as the eschatological banquet of God. Then she used an example to drive the radical nature of Christian reconciliation home to her audience. She was born and raised a Democ…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…rty” leaders, Glenn Beck is one of the most vitriolic, and – with more than 800 hours of on-air time a year – the most visible. His portrayal of Soros today as the “Puppet Master,” as the special was called, evokes anti-Semitic stereotypes from the “devaluer of many currencies” to “advocate for one world government” from “anti-American” to “thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us.” Beck’s words have consequences. They advance a world view that ult…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…e, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most important debates and produced some of the most fruitful arguments in support of National Conservatism, the in…

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

…thed their own children, just like all the previous presid— wait, what? Anyway, Kamala cackles like Satan or something. You see, it doesn’t matter what her policies look like because Kamala embodies something that makes her a target in ways that other candidates are privileged to avoid. She’s a Black woman. Even as a mixed-race Black woman, she has no White side to lean into because the complexity of her mixedness still makes her an “other.” It al…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…eep state and church separate precisely because religion is divisive. It always has been and it always will be, no matter how good one’s religious intentions are. Rep. Cleaver intended to be inclusive with this prayer, but he did just what his name suggests, just what the Founders feared, and just what our Constitution is meant to prevent—he divided the country along religious lines. Prayer at legislative sessions, which could easily be done by th…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…expanding its audience via its media productions,” People for the America Way’s Right Wing Watch recently pointed out. Since Kennedy’s death, Coral Ridge has been in sort of a holding pattern, still offering a plethora of items for sale, but reasonably quiet on the political front. That was the case until CRM issued a recent “Alert!” entitled “President Unveils His Homosexual Agenda.” The “Alert!” warned CRM supporters that President Obama has “a…

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

By Michael Pasquier

…Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.” In many ways, Beasts is a thematic and stylistic extension of Glory at Sea, which takes place in a levee-less enclave called the Bathtub, where a girl named Hushpuppy (played by Wallis) lives with her neglectful but loving father Wink, played by New Orleans baker-turned-actor Dwight Henry. Father and daughter, together with other outcasts of the Bathtub, face the possibility of cat…

Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…fting Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would not adversely affect the military in any way. In 1993 RAND Corp. concluded that openly gay people in the U.S. military do not negatively impact unit cohesion, morale, good order, or military readiness. Several other military-commissioned and GAO studies have concluded that open service does not undermine military readiness, troop morale or national security. In addition 24 countries, including Israel, allow openly…