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The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…eterodox for her politics and her willingness to tell the truth about systemic misogyny in conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture. Many seem to have picked up on the thread via William E. Wolfe, a Heritage Action for America alum and former Trump administration official in the Defense and State Departments who is currently pursuing a formal theological education with the goal of becoming a pastor. An angry man who clearly has issues, Wo…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…he same Bible out of which my conservative brothers and sisters pull these cheap one-liners to control the conversation about reproductive health also shows us the life and ministry of Jesus—whom we all claim to follow. The Jesus of the Gospel always treated poor people and people in crisis with compassion, never judgement. I don’t understand how you can claim to model yourself on Jesus while seeking to constantly judge and shame and limit people….

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…the logistics on the ground are managed as a way to suggest how someone coming after me might narrow this choice. I would prefer a lot more interactive communication as the preparations go along. I also hear from friends that they’ve had better communications before departure; so the right company goes a long way for the ‘before’ part. I’ll ket you know about during and after. White I just folded all my clothes for the hajj. Most of them are new,…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…sed to bring back the heady days of $2 a gallon gasoline. When Bachmann promised the return of cheap fuel, she tapped into that mythic connection between Americans and their cars. It isn’t simply that American’s worship the car or make it a sacred object; although one could not be blamed for thinking so. The Los Angeles Times reports that Americans spend almost 100 billion a year on new car purchases alone, not counting used car purchases or maint…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…atics and superficial analysis. We all knew that eight years of the Bush Administration gave the Democratic nominee such an advantage that the Republican would resort to deceit and character assassination, especially when the Democrat was an African-American and the Republican campaign could exploit the nation’s incipient racism. In circumstances such as the McCain campaign finds itself, political consultants say things like, “We have to blow up t…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain up in the air. The first case Boehner wants his new attorney to tackle is Windsor v. United State…

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,…

I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention’s ‘Faith and Message’

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…he institutional violence I—as an alumni of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary—experienced. To wrestle with Critical Race Theory would force these six white men to consider how the power, profit and privilege they and their institutions possess is masked by a rhetoric which hides the price their disenfranchised Others were and are still forced to pay. Speaking about the joint statement, the president…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…out; wide-ranging and fully scientific introductions to biological and cosmic evolution; and a Christian history course in which none of the horrors committed by the church, so thoroughly trumpeted by Dawkins and others, were skipped over or airbrushed. Then there was the king daddy of them all: Father Cavanaugh’s philosophy class. He took us through all the well-worn arguments for the existence of God: the ontological, the cosmological, the tele…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…e going up for any but the very wealthiest—that cuts affecting working and middle-class families will be extended. As for the “job killer” rhetoric of Sen. Hatch and the rest, the president could actually have some fun poking holes in the fantastical idea that handing rich and powerful people still more money means they will dutifully make productive, job-creating investments in the domestic economy. There has never been a shred of evidence to s…