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Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper’s and Simon Critchley

By Linell Cady

…ript of a talk given by Simon Critchley, chair of philosophy at the New School, aptly titled: “The American Void.” The talk, a meditation on the enigmas of belief in Barack Obama’s piety and politics, provides a window into the president-elect’s existential universe and, by extension, our own. Critchley correctly notes that Obama has made belief in the common good a cornerstone of his campaign, and that his popularity rests in large part on his ab…

Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking

By Patricia Miller

…ight in the darkness in the wake of Trump’s Muslim travel ban, they would look to the leadership of the Catholic Church. After all, the institutional Catholic Church has consistently been a voice for immigrant rights and Pope Francis has made compassion for migrants and refugees a special concern of his papacy. So we get articles like this one in the Washington Post, asserting that Trump is “facing fierce opposition” from Catholic leaders who are…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…ion. The fact that CVE presents itself, time and again, as self-evidently good, even to presidential candidates who show no ill will towards Muslims, is a paradox that lies at the center of our research. Here we identify three ways to begin to “think ourselves out” of the bipartisan consensus around CVE that pervades contemporary American politics. This “3-step program” was developed in conversation with colleagues at a recent symposium held at No…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…te, mainstream/liberal/mainline/ecumenical Protestants. In assessing the roots of a surge of work on 20th-century liberal Protestantism, including works such as Matt Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion, Jill Gill’s Embattled Ecumenism, David Burns’ The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus, and Elesha Coffman’s The Christian Century and the Rise of the Mainline, the article notes: The surge of interest in liberal religion, many say,…

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

…seen “worshiping the sun and stars, and purifying [themselves] at the new moon, bathing in the river, and invoking the heavens.” Today, scholars such as Harvard’s Kimberley C. Patton provide theologically informed readings of many traditional claims about the religious awareness of other beings. Patton deals, for example, with “ways in which animals are believed to possess a unique awareness of holiness,” noting that “in many religious worlds…mutu…

One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Religion and the Obama Campaign

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…f Republican sniping at “liberal” concerns that they’ve wedded themselves too closely to evangelical Christianity. And Waldman is surely right to suggest that one cannot simultaneously lionize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s involvement in Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Civil Rights movement, then deny contemporary fundamentalists and evangelicals their right to wed their faith to their versions of political action. That is entirely right, and shoul…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ainable future. A specific break-out workshop will be about using digital tools for the promotion of social interaction and engagement. In Saudi Arabia, dating sites are one of the few options for LGBT people to socially interact. However, the religious police even tracks gay dating sites actively and convicted two men to 450 lashes for using Twitter to meet in 2014. Even such private use is considered “promoting the vice and practice of homosexua…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…to the Times story. But it’s now clear that he’s made a massive monetary footprint in right-wing politics. The hidden history of the funding of the American Right doesn’t start with Barre Seid. It goes back for over a century and is deeply tied to conservative Christian institution building. “Following the money” means examining the past. Conservative Christian ideas and political constituencies are activated in (and amplified by) durable institu…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…ot a “Muslim” issue, but a free speech issue. However, I think we need to look at how we got to this point. In their statement, Lowe’s says, “We based our decision to pull the advertising on this research after hearing the concerns we received through emails, calls, through social media and in news reports.” So, did this fringe Christianist group, the Florida Family Association, really manage to dominate the media narrative through politically co…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

there is no such thing as good or bad there is only justice. no justice no peace. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet And I know we too are made of all the things that we have lost here Day After Tomorrow,” Tom Waits I hold tears in my eyes sometimes. But not often. Lately, I’ve had reason to lament as multiple news outlets have been reporting on increasing gun ownership among Black Americans. This trend has reminded me that when people…