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The Surprising Catholic Roots of the War on Xmas

By Patricia Miller

…here he went to ostensibly promote tax cuts. “Trump appeared on stage with twin symbols of his vision of the country’s heritage—a pair of American flags and a row of Christmas trees,” reported the Washington Post. “I told you that we would be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” Trump said as the crowd roared. “Remember, I was the one when I was here the last time, I said, ‘We’re going to have Christmas again’.” But while the “War on Christmas” has be…

“American Values” and “Standing With Israel”

By Sarah Posner

…om slacking off from their support for Israel. David and Jason Benham, the twin sons of Flip Benham, founder of Operation Save America, which defines its mission as rescuing America from the “holocaust” of abortion, were presented as pro-life, pro-traditional marriage paragons of red-blooded American love of Israel. (The Benhams became Christian right heroes after HGTV declined to move forward with their home improvement reality show following rep…

Unbeknownst to Richard Dawkins the Feminist Revolution in Islam Has Already Begun

By Jerusha Tanner Lamptey

…ing of Muslim women therefore is seen as releasing women from the supposed twin “prisons” of Muslim men and Islam. Muslim women continuously navigate these multiple tensions in our pursuits of equality, egalitarianism, and justice. We do this without forfeiting our diverse and deep connections with the tradition; through critical challenges to sources, interpretations and laws of the tradition; with creative and constructive visions of the traditi…

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…only to be snuffed out by tragedy. On the same day, it was announced that Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt had resigned after years of revelations about his diocese’s failure to protect children from clergy sexual abuse, revealing the painful legacy of one of institutional Catholicism’s most shameful sins. And in even more devastating news, on the night before the encyclical officially was released, a white supremacist gunman walked into an…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ple she meets? Does she offend someone when she asks for directions to the Twin Towers? Does she read the paper and say “What the fudge? We were at war with Afghanistan?” Nope. It’s her clothes, her musical references, her wearable technology, and her outdated slang that mark her as off. She plays cassettes on a Walkman. She doesn’t know what a selfie is, or how to text, or the words to Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Some who meet her in New York think…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…ing, just as we are never told why the younger brother Jacob—not his older twin Esau—is chosen to become the father of a nation. Indeed, the Bible does not clearly explain why Israel itself is God’s chosen people. None of these moments of favor or rejection seem to be deserved, or related to the deeds or character of the chosen or unchosen. This is hard to swallow. Since antiquity, readers of the Bible have struggled to explain these troubling acc…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…we ought to ignore 1607 and instead pay attention to the divided nation’s twin founding moments.” The other partner in this twinned pair of national origins was the sale of twenty Africans by Dutch slave traders to the English colonists at Jamestown a year before the Pilgrims would land at Plymouth. For the New England abolitionists, the pilgrims were to be contrasted with their southern countrymen in what constituted a sort of Paradise Lost of A…

Note to the Tax-Slashers:
We Are Already Serfs

By Peter Laarman

…d indirect benefits on the well-to-do and corporate special interests. The twin mantras of the rentier class (“The Debt Must Be Paid!” and “No Taxes for Us —We Won’t Pay!”) create a pincers effect that is, in some cases, quite literally squeezing the blood out of the working poor. And we should not fail to note that in the individual states now facing budget crises—Minnesota being the latest example—the dynamic is exactly the same as in Washington…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…provoking. The movie makes a great prompt for a discussion on biblical interpretation, and that is a good thing. I leave you the last image of Noah: passing on his blessing and the responsibility to care for the earth and all her creatures to his twin infant granddaughters. He does so with the shed skin of the serpent wound around his arm like tefilin—bands of prayer bearing the Most Holy Name of God. Interpret that! *This essay first appeared on…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…her the actual series or the subject matter, and want to see its televised twin—especially, but not only, if you come from the Muslim tradition—I’d recommend MBC’s 30-part series (ha, take that, The Bible!) Omar, devoted to the life of the Prophet Muhammad’s father-in-law. Omar began his life as a fierce enemy of Islam, nearly killed Muhammad in a fit of rage, converted to Islam on the same day he planned his assassination, and ended his life as t…