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I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…hite men hold is the ability to establish the rules on how a conversation will unfold. They can either silence or direct the discourse so perspectives voiced by the disenfranchised can be dismissed as unbiblical. They could feel good about the anti-racist proclamation they made, and even express righteous indignation if accused of being racist. In all honesty, not knowing the state of their souls, they very well may not be racist. However, by sile…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…ld. He rightly points out that religious labels are commonly applied to children while the political ones are not; no one thinks twice when an infant, once baptized, is called a Christian child. This exasperates him. “The very sound of the phrase ‘Christian child’ or ‘Muslim child’ should grate like fingernails on a blackboard,” he writes. Whatever one may make of this statement, it has the virtue of being consistent with his idea that what child…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…zes with her human subject, certainly not a bad impulse for a documentary filmmaker. It’s a story about the possibility of forgiveness, Pelosi tells the San Francisco Chronicle, and a story about forgiveness withheld—not only by Haggard’s church, but by liberals and by gays and lesbians who have largely followed Haggard’s story with mocking derision. “Why the gay men and women of San Francisco should forgive Ted Haggard is because there’s nothing…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…extremely disproportionate disciplinary measure. Given the push towards building critical thinking skills in an age of gross misinformation and information overload on social media, it’s paramount that academics are free to introduce students to pluralist perspectives on controversial issues. Otherwise, we risk slipping into a state where corporations and elite donors decide and dictate conversations. I want to emphasize that, unlike many who mak…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…group of 21 New York clergy who referred women for abortions when it was still illegal in every state—he arranged for the clergy involved to attend a demonstration that could teach them what an abortion procedure entailed and what a woman experiences in an abortion. The clergy met with a pathologist who explained the procedure using a life-size model of a woman. The doctor explained carefully when and what kind of pain the woman would feel. Again,…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…economic and political system which relies heavily on the transnational availability of abundant, cheap and pliant labor. The task, then, is to design an immigration policy that addresses the demographic, ecological, economic and cultural needs and limits of this community we call America. This community has historically been guided by the values of inclusiveness, egalitarianism, and pluralism, even if it has not always lived up to these high idea…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…rchal norms backed by the conservative theology that Mefferd shares. Meanwhile, the redemptive arc that Mefferd decries is indeed often available to male evangelical leaders caught up in sex scandals, and most commentators predicted this same cheap grace for Falwell when he was recently forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty after posting a picture of himself with his pants unzipped, his arm around the waist of a similarly (un)…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…his own distance from this character (whose values and aims seem so uncannily similar to his) seems to leave Brooks a bit tongue-tied and awkward in front of her. There’s even an uncomfortable sexual tension between the two of them. When he has her (as a young woman) get dressed up in a suit, for example, he tells us that she looks something like a “ghetto Doris Day,” exoticizing her Chinese-Chicana lineage (claiming that this “explains” her attr…

Is the Satanic Temple Just an Elaborate Prank? 10 Questions for the Author of ‘Speak of the Devil’

By Joseph Laycock

…is really about supernaturalism. I met several Satanists who had been hostile to the idea of “religion,” until they discovered TST and re-imagined what a religion could be. Is there anything you had to leave out? TST has done so much in only seven years because its members–both former and current–did a lot of hard work and took some serious risks. Understandably, they all want credit for what they did and they certainly don’t want somebody else t…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…l acceptance of Jews into American culture has perhaps been aided by the ability and willingness of many American Jews to blend in. No one has to know you are Jewish if you Anglify your last name, stop speaking Yiddish, stop wearing distinctive clothing, drop dietary regulations, pay plastic surgeons to re-shape your profile. By blending in, Jews have been able to avoid drawing unwanted attention to ourselves. And unwanted attention is one thing J…