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What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

…: educability. And if you want to check out some of the wonderful real-life-not-fantasy anti-Westboro picketing ever, click here and add them to your picketing, fantastical or real.   In my fantasy, the family and friends of Devin Snyder understand those called to protest against Phelps in Cohocton as acting in ways consonant with the sergeant’s decision to join an Army and participate in a war with which some of those same protestors disagree. In…

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Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

…e together to build a powerful movement. He summons us to resist the divide-and-conquer strategy of the Pharoahs of our day, uniting to transform society for the benefit of all. Rev. Barber consistently emphasizes the sacredness of all life. He maintains that if we care about one death at the hands of a cop, then we have to care just as much about 2,800 deaths occurring each year due to lack of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina. He cautions us…

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Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

…rything else in social ethics. Faced with mass unemployment, social workers-turned-government administrators like Harry Hopkins, head of Roosevelt’s Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and his assistant, Aubrey Williams, held the view that unemployment was caused by a lack of jobs, not by the failure of the unemployed to seek or accept work, which was the view (supported by the teaching of classical and neo-classical economists) on which the…

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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

…eir ministers with housing directly, since Crabb’s ruling leaves subsection 107(1) intact. But that’s an option that less well-endowed congregations, which already struggle to meet the financial needs of ministers and their families, will almost certainly find unfeasible. Will lay leaders shrug their shoulders and remind their ministers that the only certainties in life are death and taxes? Or will they find the resources to “top up” ministers’ sa…

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Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

…1967, at the Pentagon; cruising D.C. streets in a sound truck (with my four-year-old son beside me), to turn out votes for Bobby Kennedy in 1968. On the evening of April 3, Dr. King spoke to a crowd in Memphis: “I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” Echoes of Moses. By the next night, he was dead. By noon the…

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Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

…idge] would join different kinds of congregations…Tchividjian’s vigorous, 5-1/2-year-old church with attendance of 600 to 700, and an established, half-century-old church of 2,200 members and weekly attendance of 1,800.” According to the newspaper, “Tchividjian was cautious about discussing any changes he might make at the helm of Coral Ridge. However, he said the Coral Ridge leaders had asked him to bring the ‘vision’ he instilled at New City Chu…

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Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

…ting here on the horribly destructive Second Jewish Revolt against Rome (in 132-135 CE). And the pagan emperor is mystified by the way religion serves as fuel for such conflict rather than as a mediator. And that is part of what has been revealed this week: Partisanship is the new American religion. I encountered a chilling reminder of this just one month ago in Atlanta. The Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a four-day conference called “UNVEILE…

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The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

…y likes half of her policies and doesn’t want to admit it because she’s a B-B-Bl-… a woman. Perhaps we can nudge the Republican VP-nominee and Mountain Dew defender, JD Vance (whose various birth certificate alterations don’t appear to be of concern to the Right), to weigh in on her make-up skills since he’s so precise with his eyeliner. Look, I’m not telling you to vote for a Black woman or an orange person (whose running mate may want to pick up…

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The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

…dian published satellite images of the mosque in a kind of grotesque before-and-after. The first image, from 2017, shows the mosque from above, casting an elongated shadow. The second image shows “a smooth patch of earth.” There’s a less radical but nevertheless disturbing story about China’s Kargilik Mosque. According to Radio Free Asia, the Chinese authorities stripped the 16th century building of its Islamic imagery and festooned it instead wit…

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Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

…tely so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer uttered to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator. A preacher echoed this prayer, telling the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.” The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Baptists to an eternity of torture and…

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