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The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ed by badge and bullets—symbols of the Blue—distort a commitment to public service and safety by conflating their professional and personal identities, often allowing the former to overwhelm, even displace the latter. Blueness superseded the officers’ Blackness, along with their professionalism, training, and commonsense. Unfair burdens and absurd expectations are placed on Black people in Blue to radically transform a system that sprouted out of…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…argument understands the nature and purpose of the church. “Our worship is centered not on simply thinking about certain ideas,” Warren writes, “but on eating and drinking bread and wine during communion.” The issues here are manifold. For one thing, it’s not at all universally accepted among Christians that worship is about more than “simply thinking about certain ideas.” There are many Christian communities who put word far above sacrament. Bapt…

HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…nghoffer a forum for his lies. He wrote originally: Creationists do a poor service to the memory of Holocaust victims by using their deaths in a politically motivated attack against science. David Klinghoffer and his fellow creationists should be ashamed of themselves, and the decision by Huffington Post to give a platform to an organization pushing a tactic rejected by a US federal court judge as “breathtaking inanity” should be strongly criticiz…

Russian Orthodox Church Supports Referendum on Sodomy Laws

By Chrissy Stroop

…or which Okhlobystin—an ordained Orthodox priest on indefinite hiatus from service in the church—serves as creative director. As Global Voices Online’s Kevin Rothrock has pointed out, many in the liberal Russian blogosphere had until recently tended to regard Okhlobystin as only a charlatan and provocateur making outlandish statements as a form of performance art. His recent actions, however, are causing some of them to change their views and to s…

Challenging 2-D Depictions of Islam on CNN

By Hussein Rashid

…picture of Nidal Hassan as a terrorist, absent any facts, denigrating the service of the Muslim-American service members who serve with honor. Lemon then says that most acts are carried about by Muslims, ignoring the points raised by Arsalan and Soumaya. I wish I mentioned that a Muslim was involved in reporting the Times Square bomb car, or that Soumaya mentioned that it was a Muslim who turned in the Hutaree, but I am glad Arsalan got in the ra…

The United Methodist Church to LGBTQ People: You’re ‘Sacred,’ But Not Welcome

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…her welcome. “This morning UMC officials in charge of the opening worship service at General Conference informed me that my planned greetings for the service would not be permitted. I was asked to speak “from my context,” which includes many LGBTQ people who walk into a religious community and immediately need to know whether or not they are safe there. I had planned to say, ‘Whatever your gender identity or expression, whatever your sexual orien…

Trendwatch: Thieves Taking the Christ out of Christmas. Literally.

By Daniel Silliman

…il for the crime, while the other two spent 60 days in jail, did community service and gave the church $500 each. The 19-year-olds described the theft as a prank and pretty much everyone agrees baby Jesus theft is meant as a joke, whether or not they think it’s funny. “It really is just not funny at all,” said a Catholic monsignor in Indianapolis, after two drunk 26-year-olds were arrested heisting a nativity at his church. “What can you say? Just…

Qur’an-Burning Pastor Says It’s Time “To Hold Islam Accountable”

By Sarah Posner

…awareness that there could be a violent reaction,” he told a British news service today. In a press release distributed through the Christian Newswire service, Jones issued a statement defending his Qur’an burning on the grounds that the resulting violence in Afghanistan proved that “the time has come to hold Islam accountable,” adding that “Islam is not a religion of peace.” He demanded that “Muslim dominated countries can no longer be allowed t…

Religious Right Panic: “Anarchy” will Result if DADT is Repealed

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ed to “water down their teachings” or perhaps even be barred from military service in the future if they hold beliefs that condemn homosexuality. Austin Nimocks, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, even found a way to mix the concern about rampant sex and religious liberty with over-the-top rhetoric: No American, especially those serving in the armed forces, should be required to check their religion at the door. The agenda that is pushi…