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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…tellation the “religious industrial complex.” Within this constellation, many believe, is the new generation of “broader agenda” religious leaders who hold the key to electoral success: swing Catholic voters, weekly churchgoers, and evangelicals. Still, despite post-election cheerleading from FIPL and others that Democrats had narrowed the “God gap,” it is not at all clear from polling data that the new “faith-friendly” Democrats were responsible…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…d one card only to play in this campaign: “No Surrender.” It may not make any logical sense. If all of the voters who oppose the war vote against the pro-war candidate, he’ll be slaughtered. But McCain and his strategists know what all of the Times’ liberal pundits, and so many other liberals, so easily forget: It’s not about logic or policies. It’s about feelings. The simplistic catch phrase “No Surrender” taps into a huge reservoir of feeling de…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…e with religious organizations. DuBois has his admirers, to be sure. For many of them, his daily emailed devotionals to the president—which Obama took pains to highlight yesterday—are frequently cited as evidence not only of the president’s piety but also to counter conservative claims that the White House is somehow hostile to religion, or insufficiently committed to the country’s “Christian heritage.” While the president is undoubtedly entitled…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…for their tough talk. The narrative of Jeremiah 18 ends abruptly without any hint of that “double destruction.” As for Kendrick, the “until” of his verse tells us everything we need to know, …until your son jump into your arms Cut on the engine, then sped off in the rain I’m gone. Truly, as Brueggemann tells it, “the vocation of a prophet is [a] conflicted way to live.” We get some sense of this conflictedness when, despite his and his communitie…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…on the heels of the birth of my second grandson. One minute we were on the phone and I was describing the birth event and sharing photos on Facebook. The next day, she went to bed, coughed once, and then breathed no more. She was 44. I thought about her when I read in the Qur’an how “every soul will have its taste of death.” So gentle was her moment of passing, and yet so painful has been these few months without her here to enjoy this Ramadan to…

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…to take key positions in education, business, government, and the media around the world,” the statement read. The group pledged not to be cowed by critics that “believe homosexuality is normal and useful, especially journalists in Europe and America, many of whom are themselves homosexual or their active supporters.” Well. Yes. Journalists are clearly all homosexuals. In any case, Scott Lively is intent on global reach, and is traveling to Uganda…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…To not talk about the fact that this occurred during “Latin Night” is to deny the necessity of queer of color spaces. It is to deny queer of color magic. When queer of color spaces have been reduced to “special nights” to be celebrated in white-dominated spaces, we have to the name that sacred geography. Because for many of us, these are the only spaces our community has where we can heal our hurts. I caution the mainstream media to not misappropr…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…ly allows any non-profit or business entity to opt out of the mandate for any religious or moral objection they cared to cook up without any mechanism in place to ensure that women in the plans receive contraception. Just days later, Notre Dame University announced that it would end contraceptive coverage for students and employees as soon as possible—in January for employees and next summer for students. It wasn’t a surprising move. Despite its r…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…raphed a piece of paper on the dashboard of Roeder’s car: It contained the phone number of Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, who served two years in prison for conspiring to bomb abortion clinics in 1988. Roeder also told me that Sullenger was present at the lunch with Newman where they discussed “justifiable” homicide, and that Newman had given Roeder the autographed copy of his book just three months before Roeder kille…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…ffer, too, opens the door to more of the elusive “dialogue among civilizations” that leaders talk about but rarely do. “Certainly asking questions about the ethical boundaries of finance is in order,” says Ibrahim Warde, a professor of political science at Tufts University. There are any number of ways to think about economy in terms of right and wrong, but the Islamic case is different in an important sense. “Unlike other pockets of ethical finan…