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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ng firm, the Eleison Group. In 2007, Religion News Service named him, Sullivan, and Vanderslice among the “twelve most influential Democrats in the nation on faith and values politics and issues.” While the Democrats have come a long way in four years, Strider said, those efforts cannot match decades of organizing. “We’re going to see continued ‘bringing into the fold’ faith organizing within campaigns and within the party,” he told an audience at…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…they overlooked is that safety is itself a value, indeed often the highest value, especially for conservatives. When people vote their feelings they tend to opt for the more conservative candidate, even if they don’t like his or her policies. The promise of safety overrides every other consideration. That’s why a glance back at the last presidential election is so useful for all of us who are keeping a close eye on this year’s election. It reminds…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…tutional protections, only to quietly relent in the face of protests from evangelical figures. Under DuBois’ leadership, the office has elevated the profile of religious leaders it saw as enmeshed in its mission, yet dismissed concerns over church-state separation. With DuBois’ departure, Obama has an opportunity to appoint a new director whose greatest contribution to his administration will not be daily devotionals, but a commitment to the Const…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…t retaliation and revenge, Somebody said you bumped your head and bled the floor Jumped into a pit of flames and burned to coal Drowned inside the lake outside away you flow And that means the world to me Watch you when you walk inside your house You threw your briefcase all on the couch I plan on creeping through your fuckin’ door and blowin’ out Every piece of your brain until… Dispassionate prayer won’t do, a sermon from the preacher-man won’t…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…Allah gave us for her last days. My first year in California she spent her vacation with me during Ramadan. She loved the fast. She and I and Nicole were the only Muslims in our neighborhood fasting together and with our families that year. Now, they are both gone. When the fasting was over that year we went to celebrate ion our favorite mosque and I looked up to see my sister standing behind the food table serving others. My sister’s death was al…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…ly lies about, and defames, gay people. His theory of the Holocaust is equivalent to the flat Earth theory. It’s obvious to us that he has to know his allegations are completely false.” Potok also pointed out that the SPLC does not “associate Lively with violent activities.” “In fact,” Potok added, “we don’t ordinarily list groups that say homosexuality is wrong or see it as a sin; we list very few anti-gay groups. They have to be very extreme in…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…orres, 33 years old Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 years old Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 years old Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old Cory J…

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

By Patricia Miller

…on was transmitted to their insurers by some administrative means, be it a phone call, email or letter. So after years of fighting the mandate, and accusing women’s health advocates and public health official of not understanding why it was a violation of their faith for their insurer to provide birth control that they neither arranged nor paid for, Notre Dame basically turned around and said “never mind.” What happened to cause this astounding tu…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…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 killed Till…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…es,” explains Samuel Hayes, emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard. “They don’t have any of these derivatives or outright subprime loans. There’s no doubt that they have weathered this better than the conventional banks.” For a world in need of fast, creative solutions to a cascading crisis, might this financial subculture offer a way out? Duke University economist Timur Kuran calls for caution. “I think it’s going to be a year or two…