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Glenn Beck’s and Newt Gingrich’s Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…ining Beck’s recent “American Revival” events. Will Bunch reported for the Philadelphia Daily News from the Florida revival: But from the stage, the seven-hour event was little about Obama – and a lot about God. The kickoff speaker was David Barton – a leader in the recent fight to push conservative and Christian themes into Texas textbooks – and Beck’s own stage appearances, including a long closing speech, were larded with references to finding…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…ately to mind. Interestingly, the recent Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, from Rev. Dr. William Barber’s speech to Hillary Clinton’s keynote address, reframed such linkages, referencing a religious and political linkage that conservative evangelicals in business have tried to keep out of the nation’s discourse. Readers may think they are familiar with the story of Chick-fil-A and its founder, S. Truett Cathy, but you use this well-k…

Pennsylvania School Voucher Plan Would Allow Religious Discrimination

By Lauri Lebo

…strict surrounding Harrisburg, and Anthony Williams, a black Democrat from Philadelphia. Williams began his remarks by saying that if he and Dick Armey were in the same room together, they could find nothing on which they could agree, except for the issue of school choice and vouchers. As Talk2Action points out, the problem is that the mission of the right-wing supporters is not about giving poor children a chance at a decent education, but rather…

Derek Chauvin’s Defense, in Keeping with a Long Racist Tradition, Seeks to Criminalize George Floyd

By Alex Zamalin

…people as Black people were barbequing in Oakland, visiting a Starbucks in Philadelphia, or studying for graduate exams at Yale University. Who is civil and who is not isn’t a matter of science, but of perception. And given that the rules of decorum are settled by white people, racist outcomes are the norm, rather than the exception. We don’t yet know whether the jury will find Chauvin guilty, and if so, on which charges. But we do know that Georg…

Pope Meets With Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Anthea Butler

…ing with three men and two women at the seminary the Pope made it clear that he was committed to the oversight that some survivors and critics have felt has not occurred during his pontificate. His comments come in Philadelphia, the city that was first to convict an administrator in the Catholic Church on sexual abuse, Monsignor William Lynn. The Pope’s comments can be found here. A longer piece on this will follow……

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

By Paul Gorrell

…scholar on his own front porch and the banning of children of color from a Philadelphia pool.) But the landscape of race relations has taken on many new contours since Hair first hit Broadway in the 1960s. The human rights struggle at the heart of this new production? Marriage equality. Gavin Creel, who plays Claude in the current production, is openly gay and serves as a co-chair of Broadway Impact, a group fighting for marriage equality. In a re…

Does Barack need the Black Church?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…bout Bill Clinton being “every bit as black as Barack Obama,” based on the numbers of black women Clinton has bedded; and Rev. Al Sharpton has remained uncharacteristically quiet—aside from repeated accusations that Senator Obama does not have the civil rights track record that Sharpton has claimed for himself. Yet these men share something more than hesitancy toward Senator Obama. They each exemplify the widespread view that the black church is t…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…In a recent panel at the “Wrestling with Jewish Peoplehood” conference in Philadelphia, Peter Beinart made the important point that young Jews who are openly critical of Israel, even some who support BDS, are doing so not against Israel per se but as an exercise of engagement with Israel. The negative response from the ostensible “pro-Israel” camp illustrates that they do not simply want American Jews to be engaged with Israel, they want them to…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…racial violence. Branches of the JDL soon opened in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, and many other cities. Kahane himself espoused explicitly racist views of African Americans. Of course, he denied he was a racist—as most racists do—even publishing an essay in 1987 in The Jewish Press, a Brooklyn-based weekly he edited, entitled “I Hate Racism.” By the early 1970s, Kahane and the JDL became embroiled in arms-smuggling and…

Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…is reminiscent of a recent interview that Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia gave in which he opined, “We’re Catholics before we’re Democrats. We’re Catholics before we’re Republicans. We’re even Catholics before we’re Americans because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us… this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.” These talking points resound from diocese to diocese. Is anyone li…