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Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America

By Matthew Pehl

…eligion? The longer you live with a project, the more tangled and mythological its origins become in your memory. But here is the story I tell about it. In my teens and 20s, like most people, I worked a series of jobs with low pay, little autonomy, and uncertain futures. These experiences led me to become obsessed with questions of meaning and morality in relation to labor. In particular, I wanted to know how other people who spent most of their w…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng American Christianity in general and conservative, mostly white evangelicals in particular, legacy media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have recently begun to improve on their longstanding pattern of printing softball takes that “portrayed what is an essentially authoritarian religious and political demographic in an unduly positive light, whitewashing the centrality of white supremacism and patriarchy in evangelicalism…

Klobuchar Feeds Trolls with Pro-Life Outreach

By Daniel Schultz

…e the LGBT community and women) can’t hope to overturn an entrenched political system holding everyone down. But of course, Amy Klobuchar appears to be interested in being elected, and that’s pretty much it. (Quick, name one policy she’s championed while in the Senate.) But Klobuchar will win her election, by God, and if that means giving ammunition to the right wing trolls over at the National Review, well, so be it. And even this swift embrace f…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…cience. Nineteenth century racist science, which purported to provide physical evidence for the inferiority or superiority of peoples, was influential in shaping normative ideologies of belonging in the U.S. and political policy. In Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony, Paul Kivel explains that “late 19th and 20th century immigration policy focused on turning away those who we…

As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…eling in the aftermath of an armed Christian nationalist mob—stoked by radical evangelical politicians like Texas’s junior Senator Ted Cruz, and by President Donald Trump himself—storming Capitol Hill to stop the Senate from moving forward with its process of formally certifying the Electoral College vote, a process already being obstructed by Cruz and some other Republican lawmakers. And, given that these pro-Trump terrorists carried not only Ame…

The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion

By Andrew L. Seidel

…divine. And yes, some of the religious language was intended to be ecumenical or more inclusive than that which might be heard in a church on a Sunday morning, but the religion was impossible to ignore and it wasn’t just nonbelievers left feeling like outsiders in their own country. There were prayers and hymns. Garth Brooks sang “Amazing Grace,” but those aren’t lyrics non-Christians can sing without feeling, at best, disingenuous. We should not…

‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ Has a ‘Real Religion’ Problem

By Connor Martini

…ligion is complicated, messy, and often inconsistent or seemingly-hypocritical, because religion is a process, brought to life in the chaos of being human, something that transcends statements of belief and which must be understood outside of the pointless discourses of adjudicating what is a genuinely-held religious belief or a genuinely-performed religious identity. In short, religion is how it’s lived, not simply what its scriptures or leaders…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…many felt that it was long overdue. Antifascist organizers and writers, myself included, have for years argued against giving platforms to white supremacists, including powerful public figures. Following the Capitol Hill riot, many liberal commentators seemed to draw the same conclusion. But the swift post-riot wave of deplatforming drew censure, too. The most compelling criticisms highlighted the troubling fact that a few Silicon Valley leviatha…

Times’ Link of NOI With Capitol Killer is Based on Flawed Comparison Between Rightwing Christian Nationalism and Black Religious Nationalism

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…f Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan. The suspect, Joshua Green, described himself on social media as a “follower of Farrakhan” and encouraged others to do so as well in the lead up to the assault. While it may be seen as good investigative reporting to look through the social media accounts of suspects accused of terroristic violence to find a “smoking gun” of radicalism, more often than not a hurried and incomplete picture is presented to the publi…

Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

…elegating the genocide of America’s first peoples to an unfortunate historical side note is foundational to white Christian nationalism. Santorum’s comments represent a widespread understanding of history within the Religious Right. Religious Right leaders, going back to Jerry Falwell’s “I Love America” rallies from the 1980s, tell the story of a country with divinely inspired origins. This dual justification and dismissal of genocidal history has…