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This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…orld as a neighborhood. But then the eucharist has to be rescued from a privatized sin/salvation theology, where I think most people understand it. Dan: That theme is still present even in the Episcopal church, the Anglican tradition, though they have some wonderful models that come out of New Zealand of how that’s a public, communal celebration. Walter: There’s a lot more to do about that. Dan: In a sense, that brings us full circle, because wher…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ing on the heels of an administration that, while imperfect, did more to advance legal LGBT equality than any other in history. Where Obama’s Justice and Education Departments made explicit their unprecedented support for equal access for transgender Americans, Trump’s pick for attorney general was literally too hateful to be a federal judge in the 1980s. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the man who could be in charge of enforcing the nation’s civil ri…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…tally, I see what you mean, because when I’m scared, I turn on the lights, phone a friend, or commit genocide. It is true that Izetbegovic was influenced by Islam; but, for him, Islam was no different than Catholicism was for many Poles, who reached out to a religious leader (the Pope) to advance a political agenda of liberation. Izetbegovic went to jail for his religiously-inflected activism, which isn’t surprising considering Yugoslavia was a Co…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…o Lewis implies was not a “woman”/lady, would have likely fought back on a variety of levels. If nothing else, Lewis’ desire to “whoop” Badu reflects a rupture to a particular sort of racist imagination as well as a desire to put Badu back in “her” place. Perhaps if Lewis had things her way, Badu (and all other black folk) would be back on plantations. What is interesting about this dynamic is that female nudity is blasted into our faces through v…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al deviancy” and other charges tied to her alleged crime: waving a rainbow flag at a concert. The 28-year-old denies waving the flag but is one of 57 people arrested so far in Egypt’s widest anti-gay crackdown yet, a swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the conservative Muslim country. … Hegazy, the only woman rounded up in the three-week-old campaign, says polic…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…tably, no drum circle, which has become a symbol of both liberal and conservative scorn of the New York movement (conservatives scoff while some liberals cringe). Why Aren’t There 50 Clergy? But there was a tiny glimmer of progressive religious activism. I was there to meet a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Brian Merritt, the gregarious, affable pastor of the ecumenical, progressive Palisades Christian Church in the District. “I’ll be the guy in t…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ylann Roof’s Facebook page but at the state capital, where the Confederate flag still flies, and in museums where secession is treated as an essential part of the state’s history, and sanitized as disassociated from anything having to do with race or slavery. In his floor speech, Pinckney referred to the body cameras as “new eyes for seeing” for the doubting Thomases. No doubt he keenly understood how those new eyes are needed metaphorically as we…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…Unless by “data-driven analyst” he means is a guy who knows how to arrange numbers on a page to make a case just plausible enough secure buy-in from a cultivated crew of underwriters and investors who are already inclined to believe him. Which, actually, just may be what “data-driven analyst” means these days. I don’t believe that spreadsheets are a scale model of reality. I do believe that professional political directors should have a grip on r…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…process in which our clients were expected to make extensive building renovations and do it in two weeks’ time,” said Northup. But proponents of the new regulations claim that the safety standards for Kansas abortion clinics have been too lax, and that the changes were motivated by a concern for patient safety. David Gittrich is the State Development Director for Kansans For Life, a non-sectarian organization that first approached pro-life legi…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…’ offices pretty much go directly in the trash. They pay more attention to phone calls and letters, but street protests don’t bother them at all, unless they’re on cable news, which they almost never are. Hashtags? Changing your Twitter avatar? Forget about it. Popular protest does play a supporting role in getting us to a point where something like the Congressional sit-in works. So do the organizations—including the religious groups—who sponsor…