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In Face of GOP’s Shockingly Anti-Democratic Actions, ‘Love’ Is a Moral Failure

By Daniel Schultz

…lated, racially diverse eastern region, and its thinner, paler western and northern regions. As for North Carolina, well, Jesse Helms’ former campaign lawyer was just denied a seat on a federal court for his involvement in racist campaign strategies and vote suppression. Does that tell you anything? These divisions cause and fuel a common attitude among GOP leaders: the refusal to concede the legitimacy of their political opponents. Some Republica…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…e the spiritual worldview of indigenous populations. According to Hiebert, North Americans and Europeans operate with what he called a Western Two-Tiered view of reality, the upper-tier being the world of “religion” (faith, miracles, other-worldly problems, the ‘sacred’) and the bottom-tier of “science” (sight and experience, natural order, worldly problems, the ‘secular’). Hiebert believes that people in the West have a blind-spot: the “excluded…

Why I’m Not Quite Sold on ‘Black Santa’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…th century that much of the Santa Claus mythology took root, including his North Pole residence. During the 20th century, ad campaigns by competing soda drink companies Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, and White Rock Beverages all depicted Santa Claus in his now iconic red and white suit. That said, Santa Claus was not exclusively depicted as white in the popular American imagination. In his BBC News piece, “Secret History of Black Santas,” Brian Wheeler un…

The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…colonizing Northern Ireland (Ulster), when they began emigrating in large numbers to British North America during the early 18th century. Mostly made up of militant Presbyterians, this land-hungry warrior cohort “added to and transformed the Calvinism of the earlier Puritan settlers into the unique ideology of the U.S. settler class,” forging an indissoluble link between white rights and gun rights on their way West. Dunbar-Ortiz makes a convinci…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…imself an unexpected media darling. Becky Garrison caught up with Bell via phone to talk about his motivations, the reactions of his friends and family, and what he hopes to discover. BG: What’s your reaction to this surge of media coverage? RB: When I started this, I thought my blog would only be read by a few people. It’s been surreal. I have no clue how to make anything go viral, so this is totally unexpected. But eventually, I think this atten…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…out the murder of Walter Scott, who was gunned down by a police officer in North Charleston on April 4, just one day after the suspected Emanuel shooter, Dylann Roof, reportedly received a gun as a 21st birthday gift from his father. Pinckney was speaking in support of body cameras for police officers, as the only reason we know what happened to Walter Scott is because a bystander filmed it with his phone. In making his plea, Pinckney invoked the…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…xious and afraid, might gather for help. The subways were closed, and cell phone service had gone out. I had no other idea how to find my friends, no idea where else to go. At the very least, I thought I had a responsibility to the Muslim students on campus. (Then again, I really had no idea what to do. I just thought I had to do something, anything, to help.) Walking into our prayer space, which was located inside a Catholic church, I saw a frien…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…ashington Mormons for Marriage Equality broke that story. A week later, in North Carolina, we learned that a letter was read in church stating that members should vote on this issue, that the issue was important, but that members should not use ward email lists or say that they are participating in the campaign on behalf of the Church. We’ve all been wondering if we would see another LDS-backed campaign of the magnitude and intensity of the Propos…

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…e convenience store with Skittles and a soft-drink and talking on his cell phone with his friend. Instead, all that Zimmerman could see was a hooded threat. And so, he deputized himself to be the police, and in that capacity shot Trayvon Martin dead. But more than just deputizing himself to act with police power (and this is the crucial point of Dr. Butler’s reflections), he deputized himself to stand in the place of god, to act in god’s name and…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…eet project is part of the same effort. “We are persistent,” he told me by phone, “because these stories have a real impact on people.” Telling stories grounded in real Arab-American history is the only way to reach understanding. And understanding is still sorely needed. One imagines what the Islamophobic activists who conjured the “Ground Zero Mosque” debacle a couple years back would do with the news of an Arab neighborhood in the shadow of the…