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Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…ypses, so in the hands of late nineteenth and early twentieth century pre-millenialists, the term “Armageddon” was used as a kind of blanket locative to refer to the entire region of Palestine/Israel, where a pitched war campaign would take place signaling both the waning of the period of tribulation and the imminent physical return of Jesus to rule the millennium. From there, it was but a short step for the term to operate metonymically, referrin…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…year was not preached in a sanctuary or by a wannabe Martin Luther King. While the President sermonized about cheap grace, a daughter of the church climbed a flagpole and took down the American swastika. Like Mary and Elizabeth, Bree Newsome proclaimed that our salvation—wrapped in swaddling clothes—is here in our hands. As an ordained clergyperson nurtured in the bosom of the black church, I am all too familiar with the way in which we tend to sp…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ere ever came a time, God forbid, that my partner had cancer or some other illness that ended, or severely curtailed our sex life, I would stay by her side until the end—that is the vow I took and that is the vow I would keep. Our marriage is based on love, commitment, and collaboration—not complementarity. I, too, have experienced the delight of a godly marriage—one based in partnership, in grace, in love and commitment. I am so sorry for the lo…

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

…ott 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 of Texas. Paxton attends a Southern Baptist Church, and, as R.G. Ratcliffe has argued in the pages of Texas Monthly, he’s “a fundamentalist who wears his Christianity on his sleeve” and who uses his powerful position “as a cudgel in the culture war…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…The most devastating impact I have personally seen was on a low-income family that already had children and was struggling to make ends meet, but had an unexpected pregnancy. Due to lack of funding and strange barriers to access in Tennessee—like mandatory waiting periods and the like—they were unable to obtain an abortion. They were already living right there on the line, barely making it, but having another child plunged them into abject povert…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…hose qualities with most people I know, even my children. I hope blogging will help fill this void—a surrogate companion, sorta. I already know what it is like to be alone in a crowd. The crowds at hajj will be many times larger, and I will even be sleeping with three strangers. Sure, new relations can come out of this, but then it might also be a bit like taking a fitness class, or going skydiving. These may be relationships of convenience and on…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…America. Never have I thought that an enforced know-nothingism might prevail. Never, until this year. Perhaps the fear is raised by the coincidence of history: a candidate who speaks of empathy, of our responsibilities to one another, of “the audacity of hope,” opposed by a candidate who appears to have abandoned all morality in his pursuit of power. Each has lined their army of supporters. Those armies are so different from one another in their…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…by having the House of Representatives intervene in this litigation which will consume 18 months or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…organization central to the cause of making America a Christian nation. While always willing to work with anyone interested in Bible promotion, the ABS, as Fea explains, “has always gravitated towards the particular expression of Christianity that its board and staff believed to be the moral guardians of America’s status as a Christian nation.” A particularly fascinating narrative line of the book is about the ABS’s key role in “innovation, both…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…ny but the very wealthiest—that cuts affecting working and middle-class families will be extended. As for the “job killer” rhetoric of Sen. Hatch and the rest, the president could actually have some fun poking holes in the fantastical idea that handing rich and powerful people still more money means they will dutifully make productive, job-creating investments in the domestic economy. There has never been a shred of evidence to support this supp…