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Reflections on an Ineffective Negro Leader

By Jonathan L. Walton

…acher want?” the mainstream media machine, including the so-called liberal New York Times, contributed to a verbal castigation of King that conflated American dissent with disloyalty and moral challenge with treason. Yet King remained unbowed. These, I argue, are the aspects of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life that are often overlooked in favor of our national celebration of King, the innocuous colorblind dreamer! To linger too long in the historical…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…da. You expect to see Cubans there, but you’ll also find a huge Venezuelan American community, a huge Nicaraguan American community, a huge Puerto Rican American community—all there for Trump. One of the most militant rallies I’ve seen. But elsewhere it inoculates everyone from the R-word: How can Kyle Rittenhouse be racist when some of his best friends are Black? How can we be racist when we love Candace Owens? That’s exactly how Eric Metaxas int…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…e the most effective way of achieving civil rights.” Such ideas are hardly new, As New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu wrote in 2014, “calls for genteel discourse from on high always feel like deeply nostalgic fantasies offered in bad faith.” Which is another reason why the America Charter comes across as brazenly seeking to silence dissent. The struggle for influence in American religious and cultural life has been going on since long before the foun…

Islamophobia v. Islamo-comedy

By Hafsa Kanjwal

…feat of its own. The comedians themselves are diverse. Amer is Palestinian American, Usman is Indian American, and Preacher Moss is Black American. The experiences they share symbolize the diversity in the American Muslim community—Preacher Moss jokes about the shocked reaction of the members of his black church when they heard he had converted to Islam. (Black Americans constitute nearly one-third of the Muslims in America.) Usman addresses the n…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…, the truth is, the church, like any human institution, changes and adapts to present circumstances, sometimes better than others. Given the magnitude of the changes being currently experienced in American society, the best hope for white American Christianity might be to just leave it all behind, and wait to see what new thing God will bring about in its place….

Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the bill, said it would not alter the country’s marriage laws. Australia: American activists engage over marriage referendum American anti-marriage-equality activist Jennifer Roback Morse was in Australia to strategize with opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of a national referendum on the topic. India: Openly gay Apple CEO meets with Prime Minister Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which Andy Towle…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…now almost cruel) turn in the American dreamscape when Ronald Reagan set a new American imaginary on a “shining city on a hill” that he remembered, with perhaps more glimmer than light, from the “Sermon on the Mount” of Matthew’s gospel. There, after the long inventory of blessings upon the poor, the hungry, and the peacemakers (which makes up the center of the Christian social justice tradition, the Beatitudes [Mt. 5:1-12]), Jesus says to the peo…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…the ASA has encouraged here smacks of moral self-serving and grandiosity (American exceptionalism in a new guise), and lacks the clarity, realism, and pragmatism that, for instance, the Kairos theologians and the recently sainted Nelson Mandela practiced on the ground to birth a new nation. That said, I am happy the ASA surfaced the reality of Palestinian suffering, and I don’t think those universities that withdrew from the Association occupy an…

2022 American Values Survey Offers Some Good News — And Some Bad

By Daniel Schultz

…ns think that society has become “too soft and feminine.” 40% believe that newcomers pose a threat to American society 31% think that “God intended America to be a new promised land where European Christians could create a society that could be an example to the rest of the world.” 28% believe the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from former president Donald Trump. 19% can be termed “QAnon believers,” meaning they embrace the three cent…

Changing the Jewish State and the State of Jews: J Street and the Future of Israel

By Mark LeVine

…l requires being pro-Palestinian too. Nothing in this position is terribly new, even inside the American Jewish community. For more than two decades, Tikkun magazine has been at the forefront of the Jewish Left, and of the peace movement more specifically. It and groups such as the Shalom Center, Jewish Voices for Peace, and other groups are in fact far more critical of Israel than J Street; and this is precisely what makes J Street a potentially…