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Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rence. We have to hold onto this if we’re going to engage in a sustained struggle for a better world. Of course, there are times when we may feel despair—and we shouldn’t try to suppress this—but we should find within ourselves the capacity to hang in there by continuing to hold onto the belief in our own individual and collective agency. CS: Is there any specific advice you would give to activists and advocates for social justice now that we’re i…

Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…weekend’s news cycle brought important stories in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe about how Mitt Romney does business. The picture they paint is not entirely new, but it is consistent: Romney extracted value while, and sometimes by, outsourcing and destroying jobs, at times financing deals through “leveraged buyouts” that added substantially to the debts of companies trying to stay afloat. One source close to the GOP…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…That’s it. That’s the detail that got me. A child desperately needing to trust a caring adult. A child shot to pieces for needing and trusting. Because of a cop’s incompetence. The teachers were the heroes The boy’s eyewitness account is more damning in context. The Washington Post reported Thursday that, with his rifle, the shooter strolled into the school “unobstructed.” Officials had said he encountered three cops. First, an in-school cop. The…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ches. “The Presiding Bishop and the national church have had to respond at times in an ad hoc way in the spirit of preserving unity within the church,” said Mullin. “Canons that were crafted in the nineteenth century could not have anticipated the way things have unfolded in the twenty-first, so of course there will be ambiguity. But,” he adds of the AAF’s charges, “there’s nothing new here.” You Might Be an Anglican Schismatic If… The first such…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ent even more antagonistic than an autocratic one. In recent blog post the New York Times’ Nate Silver writes: “Who doesn’t the Egyptian public like? Israel. In the 2010 poll, just 3 percent of Egyptians had a positive opinion about it versus 92 percent unfavorable; these were the worst grades for Israel of any country included in the survey.” Yet many Israelis still believe, or hope, that a democratic country would be a more stable peace partner…

Egyptians Rejecting Religious Leadership, But Not Religion

By H.A. Hellyer

…pt would turn into an Arab version of Iran — a fear that was repeated many times over the last few days by the right-wing press all over the world. There have been other things said relating to religious figures or organizations that are to be taken with a heavy dose of salt. Some in the Egyptian pro-Mubarak camp argued that Hizbollah from Lebanon were the ones responsible for opening the prisons in Egypt over the past week, and others played up t…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…onstitute community offered an intriguing counter to “hard and fixed gender assignments,” Bambara suggested. Such a shift would be a welcome improvement over gender troubles, which resulted from colonial pasts and continued to frustrate black social life. Toni Cade Bambara encouraged the construction of new myths and the cultivation of a revolution within the self as important methods for dismantling both racism and sexism. In the midst of a “by a…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…your life, your political philosophy, and your community, according to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. The next step is to go back, not just at Christmas, but every Sunday from now on. Douthat’s Easter Sunday column was, in his words, an “implausible proposal” aimed at helping post-Christian readers fill a gap in their lives while helping their former churches fill their pews. Mainline churches—the long-established, theologically liberal de…

Memo to David Brooks: Francis Is Not Naïve For Criticizing Capitalism

By Peter Laarman

…s Americans more cheap carbon energy—for a while. And then we’re left with ruined landscapes, ruined aquifers, and our same old dependence on foreign energy sources, having failed to turn to renewables while mindlessly pumping more cheap petroleum into our veins. Like other critics of the new encyclical, Brooks chalks up the pope’s hostility to capitalism as the product of naivete or perhaps of churchly antimodernism. What he fails to consider is…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…open. This administration hides behind lies and bigger lies to avoid the truth of its racism. But sometimes, someone lets it slip, and Trump’s supporters say things like “Muslim Ban.” From the time when President Barack Obama first ran for office, he was called “Muslim,” because people were afraid to say the n-word in public. The two terms became in many ways synonymous. The Muslim ban is a ban on people of color, and none of us are secure in our…