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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…tion committee the Matthew 25 Network this summer. No longer do Democrats look down at their shoes when they talk about their faith. The Making of the “Religious Industrial Complex” Eyes aimed upward, the loudly faithful Democrats have achieved a lot in four short years. The party launched a Faith in Action initiative and hosted, for the first time, a faith caucus at its convention. Under the leadership of then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Cali…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…his performance or ideas for the future.” The one crucial point 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 u…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…Bois, the director of his controversial Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. DuBois, who has long frustrated civil liberties and religious freedom advocacy groups with his resistance to their concerns about constitutional problems plaguing the office, is off to teach at New York University and to launch “a new organization to help organizations and local governments partner with faith based organizations,” a White House official to…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…make it on TPAB. Usually a prophecy comes before a lament—e.g. first the Book of Jeremiah then the Book of Lamentations.) What I want to do here is suss out a comparison between the life, times, and texts of the prophet Jeremiah and Kendrick Lamar. Jeremiah was a prophet tasked with guiding the people through the loss of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. Kendrick is navigating us through the loss of black life in a “post-racial” America. Both poets’ writings…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…ou can say I celebrated one week of Ramadan by taking a day off. I didn’t cook, but instead picked up something from my favorite Naan and Curry place. I didn’t venture out at night to the tarawih prayer. What’d you think, I was a saint? Nope, just a real person, attempting to do what is best. Yesterday what was best was to go easy on myself. As I get older with the fasting, I get more challenged by the routine. I don’t know why it took me so long…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng, and he’s furious. Who is Scott Lively? He’s an attorney and a pastor, good with words. He wrote a book a while back called The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party. Yes. In Lively’s view the Nazi party was gay. And this is because, well, the Germans actually invented homosexuality. Only it wasn’t an effeminate, easy-to-spot kind of gayness, it was a “butch” homosexuality. Lively is no Fred Phelps, notorious for the crudeness of his h…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…lf as I lay in bed on Sunday morning, reading the news about the Orlando shooting on my phone. In the wake of the tragedy, I have found myself mostly at a loss for words, stuttering between anger and sadness. I can not fully describe what I was feeling and thinking that morning as I was getting ready to head over to the LA Pride parade—even as news came in of an arrest in Santa Monica, earlier in the day, of a heavily armed man who was supposedly…

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

By Patricia Miller

…for churches—and directly related entities like diocesan offices—was far too narrow, even though that framework had been codified in two widely watched state Supreme Court decisions in New York and California. In those cases, the courts sanctioned exemptions only for entities that were directly involved in the inculcation of religion and that primary employ and serve people of their own faith—who presumably share their religious beliefs. Nonethel…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…of God, Robb reports, has a manual which asserts, “Whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed [Gen: 9-6]… we are forced to take up arms against you.” Operation Rescue, which moved its headquarters to Witchita for the sole purpose of targeting Tiller at his clinic, home, and church, provided aid and inspiration to Roeder, according to Robb: Roeder first stalked Tiller at his Wichita church, Reformation Lutheran, in 2002, the year O…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…t of interest on loans. Trading debt and risky speculation are off-limits too, as is investment in immoral enterprises like gambling, prostitution, and war profiteering. Transactions should be highly transparent and risk, as well as return, should be shared by all parties. You can’t trap people into owing more than they can pay. Basically, most everything that caused the current mess isn’t allowed. “Given their constraints, they actually don’t hol…