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‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…que stamp of American racism, the capture of government for the purpose of private profiteering, and the abomination of a common culture that clings to the myth of social mobility in order to avoid having to look squarely at the sickening reality of an increasingly savage class divide. The concept of moral injury is usually applied to the damage done to military veterans who feel an acute disconnect between what they were told was a noble cause an…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…been repeated by intelligent design (ID) proponents before him. The “small probability of a protein evolving by chance” argument is standard creationist fare, and it has been refuted convincingly over and again since at least the days when pro- and anti-IDers had to dial in over modems to argue with each other in alt-newsgroups. What makes the argument misleading—however often it’s repeated—is that ID proponents wildly deflate the probability of g…

Why The Advocate‘s Choice of Pope Francis for Person of the Year is a Mistake

By Anthea Butler

…l Catholic. Perhaps the venerable LGBT magazine thought this would be an appropriate birthday present for the pontiff, but the gift, as well as the thought behind it, is misplaced. In case the editors of The Advocate did not notice, the Pope’s statement flying back from Brazil for World Youth Day was not a change in Catholic teaching, but in tone. The Pope’s “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge” is not an encycl…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…ommend this shot, other than how it was developed? If not, it seems like a pretty cheap tout. Moreover, touting the drug’s fetal-cell-free origins potentially undermines the adoption of rival medications by keeping alive the far-fetched idea that to use them is to be somehow complicit in abortion. That’s a big enough problem these days, but it could be even worse when the next pandemic comes. As someone who helps to organize COVID vaccine clinics,…

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…center. The heart of our daily prayers. We see it in our mind’s eye, we reproduce it as a design on our prayer rugs. But the real thing. WOW! The way the city has built up around the Ka’abah, which was originally constructed in a valley between surrounding hills, there is no way to get a view by accident. Furthermore, the mosque is now built around it and so you have to make your way through this mammoth elaborate and beautiful structure to get y…

Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…pooh-poohs “both sides.” But God & Country gives us none of this context. Precisely because some interpretations of Christianity do harm to the marginalized while others do not, these distinctions matter greatly, yet God & Country elides them at every turn. The most egregious example of dishonest editing occurs when the film cuts from conservative evangelical David French—no friend to LGBTQ and especially transgender Americans—lamentinghow “parti…

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

By Peter Laarman

…remacy is the canker that’s been eating away at the integrity of the white Protestant project for centuries now, to the point where almost all that’s left is canker. Some might wish to keen and mourn about this, but there’s a phrase that comes to mind: “By their fruits you shall know them…and every tree that does not bring forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the flames.” CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect the fact th…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…pert on such matters. But evidently that shouldn’t stop me from reactively pronouncing that I’M SURE NOT GONNA PAY ONE CENT FOR IT, even indirectly. With that in mind, I hereby present some budget-friendly tips for misogynists trying to control their urges: 1. Sell plasma! Patricia Heaton says this is a good way to make some spare cash, and she was on a hit TV series. So. 2. Distract yourself! Think of some mysteries to ponder… like the fact tha…

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

By Willie James Jennings

…It does. But I also struggle with the way this word of forgiveness is interpreted in America. It’s used to avoid dealing with the problem of whiteness and the poison-filled faith in competition embedded in it. Christian forgiveness when processed on the American social and political landscape emerges as a kind of rhetorical narcotic, homemade and constantly offered to dull the pain of our racial violence. This soothing high does not help. We need…

When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…ight into political resentment and Trumpism is lamentable, but it was also predictable. In fact, I predicted something like it in my 2009 book, Secret Faith in the Public Square. In it, I argued that American Christians were selling out their religious identity for cheap political gain, and that they could help ensure their religious integrity if they took that identity off the market altogether by concealing it in public life. This approach would…