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‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…s acquitted.” Some of the judges were members of the church. Historian Ola Elizabeth Winslow notes how far the church has come regarding “the slow emergence of certain Ideas & Principles upon which this nation is built—Liberty, Freedom of Conscience, Equality.” Turning Point’s video suggests that the church’s program promotes “disunity” and “segregation.” But here too, there’s no evidence to support the claim, and plenty that refutes it. As Edgert…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…he city through the establishment of the Iroquois Confederation and the revelation of the Code of Handsome Lake; from the arrival of the German utopian visionaries known as the Harmonists and the founding of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to the drafting of The Pittsburgh Platform which established Reform Judaism; there are Max Vanka’s communist murals painted in St. Nicholas Croatian Church and the icons Andy Warhol saw in St. John Chrysostom’s Byzantin…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…e, still, today). I was Catholic under protest. Educating myself about my religion helped—I read books about Catholicism, a little theology, encyclicals, a few biographies of saints and Church doctors. I developed a bizarre fascination with the Canon Code. But mostly, writing helped me stick with being Catholic. Reading poetry by Catholics and Catholic poetry—the poems of Daniel Berrigan were both—helped the most. That Berrigan was a poet, that he…

Hitching a Freedom Ride: Gay Ain’t the New Black…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…nd while modes of social injustice may be at times interrelated (i.e. the relationship between racism and classism, or the cultural connection between sexism and homophobia), they are still distinguishable and historically contingent. Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, ageism, etc., are all independent categories. We know that white women can fight against male hierarchy even as they ignore their own complicity in terms of racial stratification…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…e diplomatic approach. With that in mind, a new app called Atheos aims to help non-believers have friendly, thoughtful discussions with people of faith. The app can be a bit silly, and its tone toward believers can be condescending. But Atheos appears to be part of a good-faith effort to inject civility into conversations between believers and non-believers. The app may not convince many people to become atheists. But that’s not the point. Instead…

Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…groups tried to claim that they, too, were targeted by the IRS for their religious beliefs. IRS movement on the audit procedures will likely trigger more complaints from conservative legal and religious groups that the agency is attempt to stifle their free speech. Through efforts such as Pulpit Freedom Sunday, pastors openly flout the law. Enforcement of the rule, and the revocation of a participating church’s tax-exempt status, though, could tr…

Sanctuary and the Second Amendment: Do Guns Deserve Special Protection?

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…d families from the dangers of deportation. One church in the Netherlands held religious services round the clock for 96 days straight to prevent the arrest and deportation of an Armenian family in 2018-19. Designation of places of worship (among others) as “sensitive locations” caused a faithful revival of the “sanctuary movement” as churches and other religious spaces hosted individuals and families at risk of deportation during the Trump admini…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e universe, the seismic shocks ensue. What triggered this now is the overwhelming feeling of crisis on Wall Street and throughout the country. Simply put, a number of Madoff’s investors needed their money (even the very wealthy are feeling pinched in this downturn), and he was confronted with the impossibility of meeting the looming demand for a $7 billion payout. Some weeks ago, I wrote a short history of John Law, purveyor of the first such Ponz…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…in, that marks the Tea Party theology, notwithstanding all the far-right religious “celebrities” Beck put on stage over the weekend. Ignore all the bouncing balls, what you need to know about the Tea Party faith is that it’s in an unchanging, overwhelmingly powerful God. It’s also in an unchanging God who guarantees an unchanging social order. I’ve written before about what results: That framework inevitably supports the powers-that-be. In his bo…

Take It Off, Or We’ll Make You: On Sarkozy’s Proposed Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…that you must carry yourselves in a different way. Your limbs should swing freely. Your hips should have a little swing in them. These are the signs of a woman who is comfortable with her body. High-heeled shoes can help you develop the strut that is the mark of a free woman—and reach cabin baggage more easily. It is also, needless to say, a gait pleasing to the eye. And of course, most importantly, your clothing. When you dress in loose, dark-col…