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I’d Rather Go Back to Yemen than Face NYPD

By Hussein Rashid

…ost to real crime prevention, and the ways in which the NYPD is arrogating new powers for itself that jeopardize the freedom of all New Yorkers. Take this passage on page 10, for example: [W]here the NYPD was spying in Arab neighborhoods with sizeable populations of Syrian Jews and Egyptian Christians, the intelligence unit explicitly focused on the Muslim populations. The surveillance was going on at a time when a (non-Muslim) Syrian community in…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…vel’s muscular engagement to the emergent Christian Right, showing how the new publisher Crossway was interested in promoting the idea of “cultural conflict”—an early version of today’s culture war—between an aggressive secular humanism and evangelical identity. Indebted to supernatural horror and thriller conventions, it was an “allegory for the social concerns of the Religious Right, who feel like they’re losing control of America. It’s the anxi…

American Jews: From Holocaust to New Age Hasidism?

By Martin Kavka

…the ex-Chabad Hasid who has become the intellectual leader of the Jewish Renewal movement that melds Jewish tradition with New Age thinking. It is Schachter-Shalomi who, styling himself “a Jewish practitioner of generic religion,” has blurred the boundaries between the Jewish and the non-Jewish worlds through halakhic creativity in response to intermarried couples, through mobilizing the tensions inherent within kabbalistic concepts to develop a n…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…pronouncements about trans folk and the changes in policy reflected in the new handbook insisting that ‘gender’ means ‘biological sex at birth.’ You’d think that God would possess the foresight to include this in the Proclamation in the first place. Of course, the church has never been very clear about intersex folk and the reason is that they have never really given a good explanation of how they fit into Mormonism’s sex/gender regime. The revise…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…r ill, depending on one’s perspective—in recent decades. Developers of the new liturgy and the associated resolution were at some pains to distinguish the blessing of lifelong covenants between same-gender partners from the marriage liturgy in the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer and to situate its implementation across the Church within “a much richer theological conversation about marriage,” says the Reverend Jay Emerson Johnson, an Episcopal pri…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…nment social policies Right-wing apocalyptic Christians who fear a Satanic New World Order Nebulous conspiracy theorists who fear a secular New World Order Nationalistic ultra-patriots concerned that US sovereignty is eroding. Xenophobic anti-immigrant white nationalists who worry about preserving the “real” America. These grievances are interacting in a global economy often eager to accommodate corporate interests. And now we add in the fact that…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has brought millions of people into new or renewed political activism. But many of them are struggling with questions about where and how to invest their energy. I hope my book provides some clarity for them and a path forward—an understanding that our fight encompasses all of us against the 1 percent. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? An effective organizer agitates people…

Attacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year

By Lauri Lebo

…eceiving substantial tax incentives from the state. Also, get ready in the new year for Congress’ new Republican majority’s touted plans to conduct witch hunts against climate change scientists. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the incoming chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vowed he will hold hearings on the “Politicization of Science,” to fuel attacks on the reality of climate change. To paraphrase Bette Davis’ great line in…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…an academic freedom law. Now it seems the reality of climate change is the new target. Resolutions similar in wording to the anti-evolution bills have cropped up in state houses questioning the validity of climate change and calling for a “teach the controversy” approach. It’s an interesting strategy. By expanding their argument to include climate change, they’re saying that they aren’t anti-evolution—they’re just anti-scientific dogma. “There is…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eexamining attitudes toward gays and lesbians, and the debate has become a new battleground in the conflict between Russia and the West. The Kremlin has seized the opening, warning its former satellite states that if they align with decadent Europe, moral collapse will soon follow. The article reviews both progress (Latvia) and continued resistance (Ukraine) to LGBT equality, and says “in Georgia, opportunities for gay rights advocates seem even m…