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Anti-Choice Doc Aims to Link Reproductive Rights to ‘Black Genocide’

By Michelle Goldberg

…ideas. As Chesler wrote, DuBois “condemned what he called ‘the fallacy of numbers’ and deemed the ‘quality’ of the black race more important to its survival.” When Sanger opened a clinic in Harlem in 1930, it “was endorsed by the powerful local black newspaper, the Amsterdam News, and by established political and religious leaders in Harlem,” wrote Chesler. Sanger was even invited to address Harlem’s largest Baptist church. Maafa 21 moves from di…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…l that divides us, whatever it is. The bread and wine we use is materially cheap and unsatisfying; what we experience in them is supposed to come from a wealth beyond. In the presence of God, and among people of different races, classes, and opinions, the mass should nourish us in our common humanity. So whom exactly is one harming by boycotting, by staying home in solitary prayer? The earthly Church might miss your money in the collection—that’s…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…ocally become ground zero for the nationwide assault on trans people being carried out by the Christian Right and the GOP—an assault that’s advancing to disturbing degrees in a number of Republican-controlled states, even if a court in Texas has stayed the investigation into the Does, for now. Apart from that context, I wouldn’t bother writing a column about an incident of online bullying, something I and every vocal marginalized social media user…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Word on the subject, along with an indescribably spectacular 42 years with Carol, caused me to be so intensely pro (natural) marriage. I was once asked by a secular news reporter, “Has your love for Carol and her cancer battle impacted your fight for marriage.” “Yes,” I responded. Why? Because I saw the wonder of covenantal one man-one woman marriage. I saw the sheer delight of authentic, biblical, natural, historic, God-defined marriage. The co…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…ood from as much of the world as possible, in land, natural resources, and cheap labor. What does it mean to be born in a place that measures your value, your worth, your very life by the calculus of possession? That calculus extends through time to us from those founding greed-filled moments invading our waking consciousness and driving us forward in a strange confession. We believe in competition born of the desire to possess. We believe in stri…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…Islamic Revolution? Is this Iran in 1979 all over again? Is Obama the new Carter? Should we be afraid? The underlying reasons behind US hesitation in supporting the Egyptian protestors goes back to fear of the unknown; in this case, fear of what Arab democracy might mean. Back in 2002, Obama opposed free and fair elections in the occupied territories as long as Hamas, an Islamist political party calling for the destruction of Israel, was on the b…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…sion. He never says why he thinks God wouldn’t like people wanting to take care of the poor or address climate change. He never says why liberal religious types should give two figs about whether their faith costs them adherents or not. We literally worship a man who died by torture rather than compromise his ideals. When you start with that, who cares if anyone likes your positions on social reform? Ross Douthat, that’s who, because apparently he…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…became the equivalent of a blockbuster. In the chaos of the era print was cheap and plentiful, and the collapse of the licensing laws insured a degree of free speech hitherto unknown in the British Isles. The World Turned Upside Down would prove so enduring that it has been an English folk ballad for more than 350 years. The song’s opening verse, “Holy-dayes are despis’d, new fashions are devis’d. /Old Christmas is kicked out of Town” remains per…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…lliam has lines across his forehead in rows of concentric curves—a ritual scar to signify his tribe, the Dinka Ngok. “Since the time that I’m tired, until this moment,” he told me, “it’s like a fire in my heart.” He says he’s been tired since 1965, almost twenty years before he was born, when 72 Dinka Ngok were massacred in a Misseriya town. As a Christian, like most Dinka, he is also tired of the Khartoum government’s attempts to Arabize and Isla…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…sued joint proclamations of pastoral concern. In February 2006 Los Angeles cardinal Roger Mahoney drew a line in the sand in the face of prospective criminalization of pastoral ministry. Mainline Protestant leaders, such as Arizona United Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcaño, have weighed in forcefully in favor of a comprehensive reform; so have some Latino evangelical and Pentecostal leaders through Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and…