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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ot Machiavellian, but he’s situational. He emerges at a moment when a right-of-center religious discourse has more salience.” Rather than focus on reaching out a helping hand to the poor and lecturing them about personal responsibility, Sekou envisions a religious left organizing model to “create a space whereby the poor can speak for themselves,” which sounds like Obama’s earlier work as a community organizer. As a politician, Sekou says, Obama “…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…nomic anxiety clearly plays to Mrs. Clinton’s strengths.” They saw the vote-getting power of their “red phone at 3 a.m.” commercial, and they want to pile it on until they get the nomination. But the Clinton campaign is playing a very dangerous game. You can almost hear McCain’s people licking their lips and saying, “A campaign centered on national security and 3 a.m. world crises? Bring it on. Make our day on Election Day.” Because McCain has one…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…church-state relationship.” That focus on government partnering with faith-based groups and dismissal of church-state separation concerns has earned DuBois praise from his admirers. As I wrote just last week, John DiIulio, the first director of the previous iteration of the office started by former President George W. Bush, extolled DuBois as “a brilliant young minister with a graduate degree in public administration from Princeton.” Yet for all…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail. (Jer. 15:16a-18) The language in this section is bold and daring. This makes sense because, as Soong-Chan Rah succinctly puts it, “lament is the language of suffering.” Kendrick wants to “get God on the phone” but, just as in the Book of Lamentations, God remains silent. But that doesn’t stop Kendrick from baring his soul, Why you wanna see a good man with a broken heart? Once upon a t…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…atom of tin dirt/dust; and the whole process of fetal development in surat-al Mu’minun. And then this: “He it is Who has evolved for you the hearing the sight and the heart. Little is it that you give thanks…And it is He Who causes life and causes death and to Him belong s the alternation of the night and the day. Will you not understand then?” verses 78 and 80 Naturally, I take up this reminder for understanding and gratitude, shukr. I remember…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…ago when members of his church in California murdered Satender Singh, a 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent. At the time, Lively called the murder “unfortunate,” and Watchmen on the Walls released a statement that refused to apologize for the murder. The statement insisted that the group is a “world association of men and women of all races, colors, and nationalities who believe in the superiority of the natural family and marriage of one man an…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…ilberto 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 James Connell, 21 years old Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old Juan Chev…

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

By Patricia Miller

…he mandate got from Trump, what the bishops had wanted all along: a get-out-of-jail-free card that essentially 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 a…

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

…Laden’s, was an early advocate. In Iraq, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, the father-in-law of Muqtada, made important theoretical contributions on the Shia side of the movement. The fledgling Islamic banks in the United States have come under increasing official scrutiny since 9/11. But aside from the cadre of vigilantes whose sense of purpose depends on seeing a never-ending “Islamofacist” threat, observers agree that there’s no credible link between the…