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

By Daniel Schultz

…o look at positions very much in the minority is equally revealing: 42% of Americans 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 Dona…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…ou should read, tongue in cheek: white American, because obviously African-Americans are Americans). In fact, the origin of Islam in America is through Muslim slaves brought over hundreds of years ago from Africa. Some estimates are that as many as one third of the slaves brought here from Africa were Muslims. The record is emphatic: royalty, scholars, businessmen, Africans from all walks of life were caught up in the peculiar institution. That so…

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…

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

…pposition to all discrimination, violence, and threats of violence against Americans based on their faith. We call on elected leaders and our fellow Americans to condemn such unconscionable acts in the strongest possible terms and to work with us to defeat them.” “[G]overnment must always respect and protect the bedrock principle that one’s rights as a citizen should never depend upon one’s religious identity, beliefs, or peaceful practices.” But…

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….

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…tly touched on with my 4-minute, no-budget video was the growing divide in American culture, religion and politics that (according to some well-respected observers) threatens the viability of American Democracy. Beneath the most obvious and salacious details of the scandal lies a Christian subculture that, like a vast chunk of Antarctic ice, had years before begun to diverge from the mainstream mass of secular culture; some, like Hagee’s church, h…

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…historian, diplomat, and Quaker who represented the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The American Jewish Committee was represented by former appellate judge Joseph Proskauer and philanthropist Jacob Blaustein, who had been urged by President Roosevelt in March 1945 to lobby for human rights in the Charter. The sociologist and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois lobbied the State Department to extend an official invitation to the NAACP. As Ca…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…enslaved people who could have never imagined in their lifetime an African American president or an African American museum in our nation’s capital. It’s no small thing, we are at the evening of President Obama’s presidency. A lot of the people coming on opening day are coming partially to say goodbye to President Obama in what will be one of his last public acts as president. For me personally, it makes me think of the spirits of the ancestors, a…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…by foreign entities if you did this ad? After all, they claim to be an All-American Company. Or did they not realize you were Canadian? Did you hide that from them? PC: Ace Hardware gave us coupons for the next time we are in their stores. Do Canadians even celebrate the birth of Jesus? I thought only Americans did that. PC: I thought only Italians did. GB: Jesus was very clear about his feelings on Canada [see Luke 5:14]. Finally, what’s up with…