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Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…has nothing to do with profits and losses. It was simply a term coined by Philadelphia cops in the 60s to describe the post-Thanksgiving clusterf**k of downtown traffic caused by holiday shoppers. Initially despised by the retail industry they seem to have rebranded the term in the 80s with more positive connotations (though the annual death and injury toll may take a bite out of the PR, if not the bottom line). J.R. Smith has his demons…and he’s…

‘Biblical’ Stoning About Mental Health, Money, & Mormonism Too

By Joanna Brooks

…As more details emerge about the grisly murder by stoning of a 70-year-old Philadelphia man by a 28-year-old who accused him of “homosexual advances,” it appears that this is a story as much about mental health and human vulnerability as it is about homophobia. Murray Seidman, 70, had sustained a brain injury at birth that left him with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old. For the first twenty years of his life, he had been institutionalized….

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…FL star DeSean Jackson drew an immediate rebuke from the mainstream media, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, and other NFL players when he shared a fake quote attributed to Adolf Hitler claiming that Black people were the “real” children of Israel and that this secret was the key to white Jewish world domination. Then on Tuesday, comedian Nick Cannon was terminated by ViacomCBS for comments made on his podcast about his belief that Black pe…

Vick Redeemed by Record-Breaking Performance

By Anthea Butler

…after he had served his time, he had more heaped upon him when he became a Philadelphia Eagle. Many fans were upset with the organization for hiring him. If there was any place that Vick could end up, it’s Philly. Philadelphian’s are rough and tough, but also appreciate hard work. Vick has proven his repentance by adapting a low-key demeanor, even after Monday’s stunning performance on the field. Somehow, his athleticism served as a sort of an asc…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. bishops were not named cardinals, including Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, and Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who he says “have sprearheaded the U.S. bishops’ campaign against marriage equality and LGBT rights, neglecting issues valued far more by this pope.” At Believe Out Loud, Shine rounds up Catholic reactions to recent comments by Pope Francis on gender. Israel: Single Female Legislat…

Vatican Fires Shot at US Religious Right, Calls Out “Religious Liberty” Industry and “Evangelical-Catholic Alliance”

By Patricia Miller

…but a logical and necessary outcome of attacks on the traditional church. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput calls the article “an exercise in dumbing down and inadequately presenting the nature of Catholic/evangelical cooperation on religious freedom and other key issues”: The cooperation of Catholics and evangelicals was quite rare when I was a young priest. Their current mutual aid, the ecumenism that seems to worry La Civilta Cattolica, i…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…to wear the niqab way back in the mid-1970s in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. I was strongly influenced by a few things. Once I had accepted to practice Islam, I became very ambivalent about my relationship to all things not Islamic, especially those which I had once been a part of. I wanted a partition between myself and the rest of the world. All of it. It’s like taking literally the spiritual implication of the statement “be in the w…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…redictably stirred a flurry of comment over the holidays. Most recently, a number of prominent scholars and institutions have come out in opposition (though it should be noted that Hogwarts has thrown its fictitious weight behind the resolution). At the risk of piling on, there are significant reasons well beyond “academic freedom” (claimed by both sides in this debate) to oppose this action. To lay my cards on the table—I have attended the ASA n…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…t the Tiger: A Postscript to Dogma (1967) chronicles Howard’s journey from Philadelphia fundamentalism to literary Christianity (under the tutelage of C.S. Lewis enthusiast Clyde S. Kilby), Evangelical is Not Enough (1984) recounts his discovery of ritual and ceremony, altar and sacrament. An Episcopalian at the time of its publication, he later entered the Roman Catholic Church. In both content and tone, Searching for Sunday has even more in comm…

I Was Wrong About Occupy

By Donna Schaper

…re’s tax—something he would likely not have done if some people weren’t occupying physical space, in New York City and Albany and Los Angeles and Philadelphia. This movement is both “everywhere” and “somewhere.”…