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Dispatches from the Borderlands: The Immigration Impasse

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…t was an already vulnerable population further into the shadows. Because many families have mixed immigrant statuses (some members are undocumented, some legal residents, and some U.S.-born citizens), sole reliance on enforcement often ends up hurting fellow citizens, as when the parents or siblings of the estimated three million children of undocumented immigrants born in this country are deported. There is, however, a deeper problem with the fra…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…, my #EmptyThePews hashtag campaign from 2017 is not, and has never been, anything so organized that anyone could be said to be “running” it. Also, I have never said that “spreading the gospel was like a hate crime.” I have argued that proselytizing is objectifying and offensive, and said I hope I live to see the day when we come to consider it a serious social faux pas. I don’t think it should be criminalized any more than I think calling Nickelb…

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

…aders caught up in sex scandals, and most commentators predicted this same cheap grace for Falwell when he was recently forced to take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty after posting a picture of himself with his pants unzipped, his arm around the waist of a similarly (un)dressed woman who was not his wife, and a glass of something that looked suspiciously like alcohol in his hand. According to two experts on evangelicals and gender, how…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…ink of it as the aura of a truly fearless human being. There aren’t that many. You got the sense that he had done the intellectual and spiritual work at such a deep level that it was in his bones. A telltale sign: when Howard began his Judson work, 99% of working clergy had no real feeling for artists, and most were even slightly afraid of them as some kind of alien species. Howard not only loved all artists but he gravitated toward the edgiest an…

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…network and cable news. Like I said, it’s white noise causing the gasps. Many Americans have invested their hopes and dreams in the person of Obama. I admire him and his campaign, but I’m realistic enough to know that he is an inspiring though limited human who will, no doubt, be forced to compromise now and again with the political forces of darkness that have ruled our nation these many years. It’s what’s going on in the hearts of my hopeful cou…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…defending the indefensible, they’ve brought in a high priced attorney to deny federal recognition to loving, married couples,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “Speaker Boehner appears ready to go to great lengths, and the great expense of a high-power law firm, to try to score some cheap political points on the backs of same-sex couples.” I suppose Boehner can pander to the religious right and continue to defend “traditional” m…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…ps, dresses, and scarves. I feel like I need one more scarf. Not for sheer number, but for style; there are so many styles, and one has to decide what works best individually. I have my long prayer scarves that do not need any pins to be neatly kept in place. But they are really long, and I wish I had at least one as neat, but shorter. I want to be hands-free and secure at the same time. I have long rectangular shapes that get draped, and I will u…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…lks, you’ll still hear that as a response. You’ve mentioned earlier that many politicians—even those that tout themselves as progressive—will support the legal right to an abortion, while denying poor women access to the procedure. How do you feel this hypocrisy represents the intersection of sexism, racism and classism? The Hyde Amendment and similar legislation gives people a space to stand in where they don’t have to identify with “the untoucha…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…alifornia, and helped lead the fight to pass Proposition 8 in the state, denying marriage equality for gays and lesbians. He’s also remarked that Satan is behind the marriage equality movement and that gay people don’t really want to get married, we want to destroy marriage. He even used the occasion of 9/11 to compare children who lost their parents that day with gay parents because “everybody who is under that redefined marriage will lack either…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…at’s the end. I don’t mean to minimize the significance of either—for so many people, enough really is enough. It’s too painful to go back. What I’m proposing is a struggle, but a necessary one. But their significance can be exaggerated. When progressives leave their counterparts shape the Church more and more as they like it. Some have tried forming alternative Catholic communities, groups that celebrate their own masses in living rooms and rente…