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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…organizing, which is meant to build ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse coalitions that can last for generations. Still, all of this growth doesn’t fully compensate for the deterioration of organizational strength elsewhere in society. So it’s a net loss. Another very significant factor is that a large proportion of the underclass is either in prison or undocumented—and therefore disenfranchised. Do you think that any kind of spiritual…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…o maintained the usefulness of “homosexual” as a category that describes a class of people across the divide of era, region or culture. I tend to agree with Boswell and Brouten. I see much of the “Queer Theory” debate in a constructivist mode as an academic enterprise that is good for making careers in the university but is not so good at affecting the rights of real people in situations of vulnerability and struggle. I try to balance the urgency…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…and to enjoy climax. If not, she has legitimate uncontestable grounds for divorce. That says a lot, considering she does not have equal ground for divorce with the husband. Well maybe the grounds are equal but the procedures are not. Okay, so we enter in the 21st century along with every one else and some of the issues get raised here amongst Muslims like amongst non-Muslims. Some of them are sticky. For example, women I know (and some men) are w…

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…end the war,” he was greeted enthusiastically. One-third of the graduating class, which cheered as the senator walked into the room, wore black bands to signify opposition to the war. Students in a balcony unfurled a banner that read, “Blessed are the peacemakers. We’re with you, Mark.” Hatfield’s speech, entitled “American Democracy and American Evangelicalism—New Perspectives,” returned the favor. Fuller’s mandate, Hatfield said, was to offer a…

Ghana’s LGBT Population Safe From Persecution, But Not Prosecution

By Warren Throckmorton

…rday that current Ghanaian law does not criminalize gays and lesbians as a class of people, but rather “unnatural carnal acts.” She added that the prosecution of people suspected of being gay would require a change in Ghana’s laws. Just over a week after being cited as favoring decriminalization of homosexuality, Lamptey added that she was “misquoted and therefore misrepresented.” Ms. Lamptey, a recent appointment by President John Atta Mills to h…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…appropriate question to ask—Gaskin ultimately has more in common with the classical Christian view, wherein women’s reproductive organs exist for a clearly-discernible purpose, reflecting a sacred and beneficent design. Starting Over So, anyway, that’s where we are. The notion that pregnancy is not an illness draws, I daresay uneasily, from a number of sources. There’s the classical notion that a thing’s nature is derived from its purpose, and th…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ave been sources of identity, pride, and social connection for the working classes in generations past. While the jury is out on whether playing or watching sports encourages aggression or releases it, it’s clear that, as social constructions, sports organize such feelings, bringing cohesion to an otherwise voiceless, fragmented mass. One hardly hopes to see more of the sort of melee that that broke out among rival West Midland fans in 2010, loosi…

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

…Methodist Bishop Nolan Harmon justify enslavement to his Methodist Polity class by saying that “somebody had to do the work.” (The economic structure of the South depended on farming and 19th-century farming required vast human labor.) Nolan Harmon was a signatory of the infamous letter from eight Southern white clergy saying Birmingham demonstrations were “unwise and untimely,” which prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to write his “Letter from a Bi…

Bob McDonnell’s Christian Reconstructionist Thesis

By Julie Ingersoll

…ut McDonnell’s use of sources would be inadequate even in an undergraduate class. For example, he cites statistical evidence as the basis for his arguments, but checking his references we find that his source is not a scholarly report but an un-footnoted reference by a Christian Reconstructionist pastor, Ray Sutton, in a little book written for Gary North’s “Biblical Blueprint” series. The book is written at a level appropriate for a church Bible…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…. Archbishop Gomez celebrates that “America has become home to an amazing diversity of cultures, religions, and ways of life precisely because our nation’s founders had a Christian vision of the human person, freedom, and truth.” He passionately argues that Americans must both “remember the missionary history of America” and “rededicate ourselves to the vision of America’s founding creed.” He warns: When we forget our country’s roots in the Hisp…