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The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…sion with his own person image, as in the recently released transcripts of phone calls with Mexico and Australia, is all too apparent as a dominant and guiding focus) or a problem with those picked to actually “communicate” on behalf of the White House (from a Press Secretary who hid “among” bushes and banned cameras from press conferences to a Director of Communications who, in the early and yet also late days of his short-lived job accused one u…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…saulted over their unbelief, although for African-American respondents the number is 2.5%. Meanwhile, 12% of respondents experienced threats of violence, and 2.5% experienced vandalism (14.2% and 3.2%, respectively, for Latinx respondents). None of these facts make the experience of “coming out” as nonreligious the same as coming out as LGBTQ, but they do nonetheless show that disclosing one’s nonreligious identity can be fraught and risky dependi…

What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]

By Daniel Wise

…ouse. She reported that, whenever she tried to speak to this friend on the phone in the house about the haunting, the phone connection would be interrupted. As a busy woman with two kids, Maria doesn’t always have a lot of time to devote to spirituality, but when she does, she often relies on intuition. In the case of the haunting, she reports that her intuition pointed her toward the conclusion that it’s the land on which the house was built that…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…criticism can easily devolve into unthinking prejudice. I can think of any number of examples from atheist conferences I’ve attended, such as the time I watched with dismay as attendees shouted “show us some ankle” at women wearing burkas for a satirical musical performance, or when a group of fundamentalist Muslim protesters was encircled by a crowd of hundreds of atheist conference attendees shouting things like “go back to the Middle East, you…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Andraé Crouch, “The Greatest Hymn Writer of Our Age,” Dies at 72

By Anthea Butler

…ng the song wasn’t good enough, he threw it in the trash, only to have his twin sister Sandra retrieve it from the trash and say, “play it again.” The rest, as they say is history. I relate that story because it is the genius of Andraé Crouch’s talent that flowed from his Pentecostal upbringing in the Church of God in Christ that made him the powerful songwriter and singer he was. Along with his sister Sandra, his first group, the COGICS (Church o…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…of Sam’s brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master’s breast.” [Twin Towers: The Stairs of Cirith Ungol] “Sam drew out the elven-glass of Galadriel again. As if to do honor to his hardihood, and to grace with splendor his faithful brown hobbit-hand that had done such deeds, the phial blazed forth suddenly, so that all the shadowy court was lit with a dazzling radiance like lightning.” [Return of the King: The Tower of Cirith Ungol] “The…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…king him to officiate at the funeral of my suddenly-gone 45-year-old Irish twin. I was already in deep, involved in a parish life, active in ministry, when I got a chance to say “hi” and “thanks” to Daniel Berrigan that day in Brooklyn in 2005. Still, at that point, as it is now, being Catholic was hard for me. I was a leftist. I was a feminist. I thirsted for justice. I loved the church and my parish, but the patriarchy and its misogyny disgusted…

What’s Behind the “Common Sense” Rhetoric of Bathroom Bill?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…examples: At an April gathering in Raleigh, reality TV stars and identical twin brothers David and Jason Benham took to the mic to express their support for HB2. David Benham first assured the crowd, “This is not forced belief, this is common sense.” But about fifteen seconds later, Jason Benham added: “Common sense is not so common when that thread of ‘Under God,’ that binding thread of being ‘Under God,’ has been removed.” This week, Jason said…

House Hearing on White Nationalism Missed the Boat on Christian Nationalism

By Murali Balaji

…lso missed a key opportunity to interrogate white nationalism’s overlooked twin: Christian nationalism. Indeed, as I’ve written, white Christian nationalism must be looked at—and addressed—as a whole in order for the West to stem hate crimes and terror attacks. Just as national security experts have tied Islamism and the rise of “lone wolf” jihadis to factors such as fear, grievance, and a sense of belonging to an ideology, white Christian nationa…