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American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…ably in its equally explicit rejection of a role in the political body for African Americans. […] Now that the fraud has been exposed and there is little, if any, agreement on what the American project is or should be, there is correspondingly less agreement on who ought to lead the nation. Without any flag waving on my part (and I do expect many of this year’s July 4 celebrations to be jingoistically repellent beyond belief), I want to propose th…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…ile, been relegated to living in ghettos. As a result, Rothstein told me, “African American family incomes are about 60% of white family incomes, but African American wealth is about 5% of white family wealth. And that difference is heavily attributable to federal race-based housing policy.” It might be psychologically satisfying to blame unemployment on individual laziness, or segregation on prejudiced white homeowners, but this would miss the fo…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…ion to become ordained to Sojourner Truth’s resistance to slavery. What an African-American woman says about ordination and slavery is none of my business. And I have no problem with white women’s ordination activists stating, as some do in Pink Smoke, that their courage to stand up to the Vatican and the bishops is inspired, in part at least, by the example of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. But putting one African American woman…

Did Uganda’s President Really Veto the Anti-Gay Bill?

By Kapya Kaoma

…or killed. The chief actually did very good work but homosexuality was not promoted. People would whisper and ignore, the issue now is promotion as if it’s good, that we can’t accept.” Museveni echoed this claim in his letter but added that Uganda should stop those who “lure” young people into homosexual acts: “We should legislate harshly against these people with money, from within and without, who take advantage of the desperation of our youth t…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…sources. American Jews have a unique obligation to support reparations for African Americans because we, as a collective, know the meaning of vicious identity-based oppression. And because, as a collective, we have been freed from the yoke of much of our historical suffering. This is not to imply that anti-semitism has disappeared—it hasn’t—but we must appreciate the implications of elected leaders from all over Europe, the epicenter of our histor…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…e racially divisive events painfully exposed the different perspectives of African American and white communities writ large. The attacks on black churches, therefore, provided a respite of cohesion—an issue that seemingly most Americans could agree was wrong and want to do something about. I interviewed many of the white volunteers who helped rebuild black churches and who felt that, by helping to restore a church destroyed by hate, they were pla…

Will Sarah Palin Ruin The Religious Right’s African-American Outreach?

By Sarah Posner

…esn’t damage his standing with either the Foundation or the North Carolina Republican Party), who said “many black Republicans don’t use Sarah Palin as a benchmark.” As I’ve reported, the religious right is working hard — through the Frederick Douglass Foundation and other organizations — to reinvent itself as a racially diverse movement. But as much as Palin is adored by religious right activists, it’s always appeared that she operates outside mu…

Harry Jackson Fundraises for Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…white audience that white evangelicals needed to do more than reach out to African Americans on wedge issues; that if they wanted success in the long-term, they would have to do more to confront issues facing the African American community, like poverty and educational opportunities. He said he was worried about racial violence in Florida when George Zimmerman is released, and about the potential for violence if Obama is not re-elected. “I’m conce…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

…their families, and communities. Such laws undermine the very lynchpins of freedom and democracy, the right to free expression, and particularly the right to diverse faith expressions. Christian traditions that affirm everyone as a child of God, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, would become illegal under the proposed bill. Ministers and bishops within those traditions would be at risk for arrest and imprisonment. We may have so…

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End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

Even after they’ve been goaded by the likes of Glenn Beck to fear the Egyptian revolution, I’m getting the sense that conservative religious folks don’t know quite what to make of the anti-authoritarian revolutions across North Africa. “Just tell me, is this the kind of thing where missionaries are going to lay dead in the streets of Jerusalem for three days?” a close friend asked me, referring to a sign-of-the-times prophecy popular among LDS pe…