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Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…e did not notice, the Pope’s statement flying back from Brazil for World Youth Day was not a change in Catholic teaching, but in tone. The Pope’s “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge” is not an encyclical, but a statement. Granted, it was a statement that shocked the world with its compassion, but the follow-up proved that it was not a change in church teaching. In September of 2013, in an interview with Rev. Ant…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…this shot, other than how it was developed? If not, it seems like a pretty cheap tout. Moreover, touting the drug’s fetal-cell-free origins potentially undermines the adoption of rival medications by keeping alive the far-fetched idea that to use them is to be somehow complicit in abortion. That’s a big enough problem these days, but it could be even worse when the next pandemic comes. As someone who helps to organize COVID vaccine clinics, I’d be…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…. Wear a rubber band around your wrist and snap it every time you think about harassing a woman! Rubber bands are cheap – mere cents. Why, you could snap yourself with a rubber band more-or-less constantly for the next year, for a fraction of what any of those fancypants remedies cost. 9. Tell yourself what, deep down, you most need to hear: “I deserve better than to be a meanspirited bullying harasser!” 10. Avoid tempting situations. If you’re li…

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…so intense in their closeness. I told my roommate to slowly edge her way out toward the outer circle so that we could end our tawaaf by praying the two rakaats at maqam Ibrahim, the station of Ibrahim. If it was even faintly possible to get to it, there is a lower platform on the side of the Ka’abah just after the black stone. People who could not descend to this lower lobby are allowed to pray two rakats anywhere directly out from the actual sta…

Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…out the US Constitution and Founding Fathers is educational and engaging. Butler, the author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, not only provides sharp analysis, but also unequivocally states that theocracy in America is possible and refreshingly rejects the narrative put forth by the vast majority of the documentary’s Christian interviewees. “One of the biggest fallacies about religion and especially Christianity in…

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

By Peter Laarman

…he sake of preserving (say it with me now) straight white male supremacy. White supremacy is the canker that’s been eating away at the integrity of the white Protestant project for centuries now, to the point where almost all that’s left is canker. Some might wish to keen and mourn about this, but there’s a phrase that comes to mind: “By their fruits you shall know them…and every tree that does not bring forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast…

This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl

By Jeff Sharlet

…hristianity as essential to their political identities. Great; let’s find out what they know about their Christianity. I propose this not as a boost to Hillary, who’s by far the most theologically literate, nor as a slam on McCain, who may not actually know that Baptists are supposed to have been, you know, baptized. Rather, I simply want to know what they know. How about a debate in which Hillary and Obama each explain how Revelation will help th…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…of life that is also a way of seeing life—emerged not as a fixed identity but as a striving, a goal to be accomplished, and for many an achievement to be celebrated. But not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it. Whiteness depends on possession and the possibilities of increasing possession. Enter Dylann Roof. Many have tri…

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

By Mark LeVine

…the need, not merely to support the Obama Administration’s peace efforts, but to be willing to put teeth behind them by threatening to cut off military aid to Israel if it doesn’t stop and withdraw most settlements and end the occupation. In fact, the reality today is that to be “pro-Palestinian” in the sense of supporting their right to a sovereign and viable state demands, at least to a certain degree, being “anti-Israel” because the entire fabr…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…suffer together, experiencing comparable levels of fear and dread. “We salute our heroes”: A more truthful form of this throwaway expression would be “We salute our sacrificial victims.” My postal carrier may appreciate the thank you that I shout to her from across the street; EMT drivers and ICU nurses might warm to the nightly serenade of applause from open windows; but all of them would much rather have proper safety protection, hazard pay, an…