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An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…uary or by a wannabe Martin Luther King. While the President sermonized about cheap grace, a daughter of the church climbed a flagpole and took down the American swastika. Like Mary and Elizabeth, Bree Newsome proclaimed that our salvation—wrapped in swaddling clothes—is here in our hands. As an ordained clergyperson nurtured in the bosom of the black church, I am all too familiar with the way in which we tend to spiritualize the material sufferin…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…rial and because the bodies exploded. Others experienced the same horror, but without the mandate for burial. I personally saw a finger on a windowsill in Tribeca. I will never forget it. Terrible violence yields terrible memories. Murder, especially murder by sudden terror and violence, has a long reach into a person’s future. A community center on the site of the bombing would create another picture of another kind of future, one with respect an…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ly an assault on the bodily autonomy of any American who happens to have a uterus. But the rambling draft rule—which is still listed as pending on OBM’s website and which seems to have wholly skipped the requisite public comment period—is part of a larger, broader campaign waged by the Trump Administration and its right-wing allies. To unpack the deep historical, religious, and conservative culture war roots of this sweeping effort to roll back ac…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…t because they no longer have to foot the bill)? If ending the Bush tax cuts—cuts that were deemed reckless when they were first pushed through in 2001 and 2003—amounts to taking the punch bowl away from the very wealthy, then maybe some measure of sobriety is exactly what we need. There was and is, after all, an element of drunken irresponsibility involved in letting US millionaires sidestep realistic taxation during a time when we’ve been figh…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…itably, push the work in certain directions. A work of history is often about what its sources are about. And when the sources come directly from the archives of the institution, the language of the text inevitably recapitulates some of that voice. Fea places his story in a broad national context. He does so particularly effectively in earlier portions of the book, which cover the ABS’s early glory years. He ties the aims of the ABS to the broader…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…cademics specializing in Islamic Studies and allied fields, both the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and even the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have issued statements of support. They’re rightfully concerned about the stifling of academic freedom in universities. But we should also be concerned because the university shouldn’t be a corporation, the student should not be treated as a customer, and faculty should not be treated a…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…the Public Square. In it, I argued that American Christians were selling out their religious identity for cheap political gain, and that they could help ensure their religious integrity if they took that identity off the market altogether by concealing it in public life. This approach would take seriously Jesus’ advice to pray in secret and to give alms without letting “your left hand know what your right hand is doing” (Matthew 6:3-6). It also w…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: The Immigration Impasse

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…icularly the case for sectors of society that have been disempowered and shut out of public discourse. This accounts for the powerful role churches played for African Americans during the civil rights movement. Since the issue of immigration ultimately has to do with how inclusive America can and should be, churches must be a part of the conversation. Moreover, one of the first things that immigrants do as they settle in the United States is to lo…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…in America.” I have no problem with Pelosi’s attempt to humanize Haggard, but the approach runs the risk of putting the leading man in the klieg lights once again. The run-up to tonight’s premier is a case in point. Haggard’s highly visible cultural makeover includes a blitz of newspaper interviews—the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times—and of course the obligatory stop on Oprah’s couch and a premier-night gig on Larry King Live. In the middle…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…ed religious tribute, to Caesar and Mars . . . And yet, and yet, the times are inexhaustibly good, solaced by the courage and hope of many.” Cynicism is understandable, and despair more so. But instead of siding with cheap, whitewashed nostalgia, let us note that certain moments in the past remind us of the future that may yet still be achieved….