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Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ingly immigrants and people of color. Catholic churches with ties to Latin American progressive traditions, African-American Protestant churches with roots in the Civil Rights movement and white Protestant churches in the social gospel tradition bring a very different standard for what it means to care for the community. While he was working with OUR Wal-Mart in California, Jones met a young Latina woman, a Wal-Mart employee, who was pregnant. The…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…no signal, which means no AP alerts, no Facebook, no Twitter—and no way to contact friends and family. Except for the radio, we’re cut off. And so is everyone else in the mass of humanity that lives and works below 39th Street. In the afternoon, after the worst of Sandy has departed for the north, I walk across Avenue B again into the Red zone. Some time during the night the East River, which is really part of the ocean, flooded over the boardwalk…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…f God’s proclamation that homosexuality is “an abomination,” made same-sex contact legal, the nation became the enemy of God. And, as readers of the Old Testament know, a nation that is the enemy of God will find its armies destroyed. To preach this message to the world, members of Westboro Baptist Church attend military funerals, where they hold signs that say “God is America’s Enemy” and “Your Soldier’s in Hell.” Because people at funerals are e…

Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

…n journalist Francis J. Grund identified the essential differences between American and European Christianity. “The Americans,” he wrote, “enjoy a threefold advantage: they have more preachers; they have more active preachers, and they have cheaper preachers than can be found in any part of Europe.” What explained European Christianity’s weakness to compete? The answer, de Tocqueville reasoned, was that “the church cannot share the temporal power…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…an Christianity” in which faith is a private matter and does not come into contact with politics in the public sphere. David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam, authors of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, wrote in a New York Times op-ed last summer that what makes the Tea Party movement so unpopular to a large segment of the population is the conservative impulse to mix religion and politics. Americans, they suggest, oppose the mi…

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

By Sarah Posner

…seph Smith,” although Peterson noted that he didn’t know how Smith came in contact with teachings about Islam or what he read about Islam. There are critics, said Peterson, who “think we’re too friendly with Muslims.” Such critics, particularly evangelicals, he said, think “we should be condemning Islam as the religion of the devil, and because we’re not, that goes to prove we’re not real Christians.” While the Church has, said Peterson, avoided t…

Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…admitted in an interview with Ed Stetzer that he had engaged in “physical contact that went beyond the bounds of friendship,” with the blogger, but that he does not identify as gay simply because he’s, y’know, tempted to kiss and fondle other guys. What makes me the most sad, however, is the continued peddling of the lie that to be Christian one must “suffer” or “struggle.” This is the line we hear the most from gay and lesbian people hoodwinked…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…) But the cover art makes those worthy questions moot. Today, I’ve been in contact with a few of the sources for the article, and they believe the mocking cover image will lead most Mormons to dismiss the entire article as an anti-Mormon hit piece. Trying to sell a few magazines, Businessweek destroyed an opportunity for a serious discussion. That’s not what any of the sources consulted for the article would have wanted. Another lost opportunity w…

Ralph Reed’s Divinely Profitable Mission: Defeating Democrats

By Peter Montgomery

…volved as a “divine appointment.” Not one to think small, Reed pledges to contact 27 million conservative voters between 7 and 12 times this year with turnout messages. And he hopes to have a $100 million budget by 2015. With the Wisconsin recall election as an example, Stan describes in detail what a strategist like Reed can do with access to cutting-edge technology and the bottomless pockets of guys like the Koch brothers. The article also reve…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…had undermined their investigation. “You don’t release a press release and contact the media if you want to protect your children. But that’s just from a police perspective.” In a culture war against reproductive health and rights, however, drama is a key weapon. Because it works. What ultimately got a guffaw out of Investigator Spottke was prominent pro-lifer Jill Stanek’s unwarranted assertion that “whether this is deemed a terrorist attack or h…