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National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…e for our nation right now: Consensus is possible if we avoid false dichotomies. We might be able to agree if we move out of the land of false dichotomies into a land of multiple problems, realistic caring, and mutual give-and-take. Both “sides” will have to give a little. Actually, there is no such thing as both sides. Most people use a cafeteria approach to the morality of the immigration issue. We pick and choose. The first step towards consens…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…fforts to place controls on gun ownership, desecrations of the flag, unassimilated minorities, artistic license, dissident and unusual behavior of all sorts that could be labeled antinational or decadent. That said, Neiwert slams those who misuse the term for “cheap political theater,” writing that “inappropriate comparisons tend to obscure the reality of what’s taking place.” So what is the reality? Neiwert recently spoke with Religion Dispatches…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…result of their big families. When you have a society that is essentially middle-class averaging seven children per family with a very low infant mortality rate and a life-expectancy similar to the most developed societies, you have a society that will grow at an abnormal, or “unnatural,” rate. Grandparents with an excess of forty or fifty grandchildren and great-grandchildren are not uncommon in the Haredi world in Israel. In developing countrie…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ous ecstasy (i.e., Kabbalistic mythologies) and chemical imbalances in the mind (i.e., migraines). Aronofsky is too smart to deal in binaries, and so even back then he was already dissecting this material-spiritual difference with that of artificial intelligence (i.e., computers gaining self-awareness), chaos theory applied to the stock market, and the simple search for love and connection in the world. In the end, Pi’s protagonist Maximillian Coh…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…l made in the play, but it’s still clear: Doubt paints a picture, from the cheap seats of the Bronx, of the Church in mid-transformation. But things are even more complicated than that, as the story is also an elaborate critique of the way power is wielded in the Church—and the fact that Vatican II managed to change very little. Sister Aloysius is paralyzed by her position, unable to do anything about Father Flynn directly because the Monsignor wi…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…n creates more volatility and greater risk. What was developed in order to minimize risk has exacerbated it. When you were writing, what hopes did you have for the book? What hopes can you have for a book? How has its reception lived up to that? It’s still early. I don’t know where the book is traveling right now. Over the years I’ve written in so many different areas. Hegel says that the owl of Minerva only takes flight at twilight. You can only…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ictimized homosexuals. We victimized the environment. We’re currently victimizing immigrants. It’s all the same mentality. What is it about Christianity that makes us constantly be a victimizer? I think it’s because we’ve adopted victimizing theology. We spend all our time in church talking about how sinful and evil human beings are. The only way you can tolerate listening to that is to pass it on. We have to pass on this hostility that we have. T…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…elieves, that’s not ghettoization, it’s just the reality of holding a tiny minority opinion. Michael Peroutka didn’t miss out on the presidency because his supporters were ghettoized. He lost because a whole lot of people wanted someone else to be president instead of Peroutka. And having a minority opinion can be, you know, fine! I’ve been told I hold many such opinions myself. But it’s a little bit disingenuous to then say, “What’s this? My u…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…would be like to be blindfolded and helpless in the hands of strangers who might or might not know what they were doing. If a higher level of empathy is placing yourself in another person’s shoes, that demonstration put the clergy in a woman’s stirrups. Clergy could see that the risks were enormous, but it was equally clear that women were not deterred by those risks; the law did not stop women, it merely placed them in danger. Howard Moody said,…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…frequently reject are actually at the center of this movement—women. From Minneapolis to Mizzou, young black women are troubling the waters. Women clergy—whom many of you will not allow to darken the steps of your pulpit—have consistently been in the streets. These sister-preachers stand in the gap between the gates of heaven and hell for our tattooed and gold-toothed youth. The Ferguson effect—forged in the streets, not the sanctuary—has set the…