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After Orlando: Love Wins, But When?

By Daniel Schultz

…magic of boys? So be it. Whoever he loves, he loves, and we will do our best to foster their bonds. He is a tender and responsible young man. I have no doubt that he will marry for life. +++ It has been a week of great loss. On Saturday night, a gunman in a central Florida nightclub took 49 mostly young, mostly brown, mostly gay lives. I marvel at the brief biographies of the dead I have seen, how many of them floated to Orlando from distant poin…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…her. Before he arrived in Colorado Springs, Haas was himself an aspiring pastor, studying at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute, once the mighty citadel of American evangelicalism. According to Haas’ own account, he let it be known at Moody that he was struggling with feelings of attraction to men. Their advice? Head west, to Colorado Springs, evangelicalism’s New Jerusalem, and to New Life Church, no less, where Haas found himself at the feet of the…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…interests rules the day. It’s only through free inquiry against powerful vested interests that we’ve been able to abolish slavery, oppose apartheid, and recognize genocide perpetrated by state actors. This continues to date, as we push against China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims, the Myanmar junta’s persecution of the Rohingya Muslims, the Israeli dispossession of Palestinians, and calls for genocide against Muslims under a far-right regime in In…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…ese, and he has a huge following amongst the Han Chinese diaspora. Journalists or stenographers? For Tibetans in India, this incident reveals the dilemma faced by Tibetans, subjects without citizenship, and it also shows how Tibetan refugees in India can get caught in the crossfire of a curious politics between the central government (led by the Nationalist Congress Party) and the state (under the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP). Earlier, even af…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…s organization planted at Ground Zero would give people hope that there is still a chance that we could still and yet learn to get along across culture or religious lines. When someone dies a terrible death, as did so many at Ground Zero, the grief issue is about how we go on, once we know how bad violence can be. The Jewish dead were particularly bereft because there was no burial and because the bodies exploded. Others experienced the same horro…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…e was actually quoting Daniel Webster and upholding federal supremacy against states that were then attempting to tax the Bank of the United States out of existence. But anti-tax conservatives blithely ignore the historical context and still recite the Marshall mantra as they go to bed. They raise their children up to think of all taxation as a vicious incubus. Thanks to the oracles of conservative demigods like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…Always interdenominational, the ABS was closely associated with “the Protestant establishment” for much of its career. More recently, it has aligned itself with evangelical Protestants, who support the historic aims of the ABS in being an organization central to the cause of making America a Christian nation. While always willing to work with anyone interested in Bible promotion, the ABS, as Fea explains, “has always gravitated towards the partic…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…o, and few said anything. (While, we should add, the Brotherhood was at least ostensibly in charge.) Now they’ve gone after the most organized political opposition in the country, killing hundreds and wounding thousands—blood spilled is not soon forgotten. The Egyptian military’s crackdown on the Brotherhood in decades past left us with Sayyid Qutb and violent offshoots like Gamaa’ Islamiyya, not to mention Ayman al-Zawahiri. We kept quiet even as…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…these tech companies lied, and they lied some more, it became a very interesting story. Then it turned out that there was very little will in the UK to pursue any of the regulation that the committee recommended for microtargeting and those issues. So we kind of wondered, what’s the conclusion of this film? Where does it go? Because Charles had placed himself at the middle of this story, people kept coming to him with evidence. One of them, Brent…

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

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…they made, and even express righteous indignation if accused of being racist. In all honesty, not knowing the state of their souls, they very well may not be racist. However, by silencing communities of color, they’re not only engaging in racist acts (if it quacks like a duck, etc), but they’re also fortifying the racism of Southern Baptist seminaries so that these institutions can be racist for them. There is no creed but the Bible—as long as it…