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My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…these days, we must all be “secure,” no matter how minuscule the risk, and freedom—even the freedom to follow our own conscience—be damned. I don’t know if we’ll ever have the chance to meet our Syrian family now, but if we do I hope I will be able to offer the formal greeting one might expect of a man of God: Assalamu Alaikom warahmatu Allahi wa barakatuhu, “Peace be with you, and God’s mercy and blessings,” without having to add under my breath,…

Tax Cuts for the Super Rich Aren’t Biblical

By Daniel Schultz

Jordan Sekulow’s Washington Post On Faith column arguing that tax cuts for the wealthy are the biblical thing to do gets the Bible all wrong. If Sekulow took a look in the Bible, he would see plainly that Jesus endorses the payment of taxes as the price of participation in the economy. You use Caesar’s money, you pay Caesar’s taxes. You use US government-issued greenbacks, you pay the US taxes. Were Sekulow to open the Bible, he would also note R…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…led “sodomy,” in addition to violent new punishments for its conduct (Mark Jordan has told this story brilliantly, in a book called The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology). What is strange about this interpretation is that it is not how the Hebrew prophets or Jesus knew the story. They thought it a pretty simple story about violations of hospitality as symbolized through rape. The people of Sodom were known to be excessively wealthy, excess…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…myths are “mashups,” achieving their goals through the same processes that promoted the iPod to ubiquity: rip. mix. burn. All great artworks, all lasting mythologies, even new technologies, operate in the same way: there is nothing new under the sun. Meanwhile, it is up to the viewers to respond, to make meaning out of a mashup. The process of reappropriation does not make any of it lesser art; for it is precisely the mixing and merging of influe…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…piritual reform” during the Cold War. And Anna Su’s recent book, Exporting Freedom, examines the US-occupied Philippines, Japan and Iraq. “[N]o doctrinal position or school can be identified as causing the actions of jihadi groups.” Since 2009, US military chaplains have engaged with local religious leaders overseas to advance American strategic objectives: gathering cultural intelligence, promoting religious tolerance, and patching up relations w…

Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

…or the sweep of a spectrum. How are to know whether Jane Doe voted against Free Halloween Candy for Kids because she’s a cold-hearted child-hater or because the sponsor of the bill owns a share in Nabisco? How are we to distinguish those stretching the truth from those obliterating it when most of the media’s unbreakable First Commandment is Thou Shalt Present Both Sides of a Given Issue as Equal—Whether One Side is Objectively More True or Not? I…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Poschardt isn’t alone. One of his head writers, Anna Schneider, has lauded Jordan Peterson and Argentinian anarcho-fascist Javier Milei, who welcomes comparisons with Trump and Bolsonaro; sees socialists as “enemies of humanity”; denies climate change; has close ties to the Christian Right; wants to ban abortion, and supports unrestricted gun ownership. Schneider, who Die Welt has comically named “chief freedom reporter,” tweeted gushingly about M…

Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers

By Sarah Posner

…o intervene are somehow on the rise. Yet the only source for the story was Jordan Sekulow, the ACLJ’s Director of International Operations. “The media didn’t want to report this,” Sekulow asserted, claiming they feared being called Islamophobes or bigots if they reported that the CMSA was hosting terrorist speakers. “When we started talking about this,” said Sekulow, “immediately the left and the kind of pro-Islamic world immediately cries bigot a…

What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering

By Kentina and Naomi Washington-Leapheart

“Children are the ways that the world begins again and again.” – June Jordan, The Creative Spirit and Children’s Literature (1977) Our daughter, Sophia, doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do when she becomes an adult—we keep telling her that circus contortionists aren’t necessarily in high demand—and she doesn’t know if she wants to get married. But our 11-year-old is joyously clear about one thing: she wants to be a mother. We think that u…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…nding out gaudy, gimmicky letters (with prayer cloths, holy water from the Jordan and holy oil) promising riches and healing for anyone desperate enough to send in their money. Ewing, dubbed “God’s Ghostwriter”, routinely wrote similar garish letters for other evangelists using every trick to milk desperate people out of their money. The mailings still take in millions of dollars every month, though the group has lost its tax-exempt status several…