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This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…ions, but in Old Testament studies, post-liberal really has to do with post-historical-critical. Dan: So in a couple of sense you have some sympathies. Walter: That’s right. That preoccupies me a great deal. I’m doing some lectures at the Trinity Wall Street church, and the session next January is going to be on how the church can now think about the Bible, and one of the issues has to do with critical and post-critical and all that. Dan: The stre…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ed for him, and what they hope will come of his election. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and keep calling. Ask your friends and nei…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…hawarij,’ or secessionists. They went to war with Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law Ali, the first Shi’a Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph, and eventually assassinated him. An extremism so self-righteousness that it did not stop to wonder what kind of “understanding” of Islam would bring it to war with the Prophet’s flesh and blood. Before his assassination, Ali and some Khawarij had a debate over his rule as Caliph. The latter demanded that Ali govern…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…a more inclusive America that makes room for her particular complex, multi-positioned inter-subjectivity. In many ways, this reflects the message of Christ. While many will say that Badu is not Christ (myself included), her journey towards her individual “truth,” which she predicted would get her “killed,” should be re-read in light of his love ethic. Perhaps if we better understood that, if we were all courageous enough to remove the emperor’s c…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ttish church will be excluded from the next Lambeth Conference, the once-in-a-decade gathering, in 2020, or the next meeting of Anglican primates in 2019. Chechnya: ‘Long Arm of Retaliation’ Follows Gay Refugees Boris Dittrich of Human Rights Watch writes about Chechnya’s “long arm of retaliation” against gay men. He spoke with two gay men from Chechnya who are living in refugees in Western Europe. “We were abducted, tortured in Grozny. The police…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…lping unemployed with job hunting—are overwhelmed, with staffers working 50- to 60-hour weeks. His own participation “is not about me, I’m not like a lot of social justice people who come into a movement and are invested in taking it over so that donations can be brought to X,” said Merritt. “I was just more willing to come to offer whatever help. I will probably be bringing gloves and hats for people who are going to be camping out.” When I met M…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ow what happened to Walter Scott is because a bystander filmed it with his phone. In making his plea, Pinckney invoked the biblical story of Doubting Thomas, the one of Jesus’s disciples who would not believe Jesus had risen from the dead until he saw him with his own eyes and touched his wounds with his own hands. “It was only when he was able to do that, he said, ‘I believe,’” Pinckney said of Thomas. Some people, said Pinckney, are like Thomas…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…l the staffs and offices,” Beeson said. “They were literally creating a one-to-one contact with voters,” something that Romney did not have the staff to match. “Now I know”? Yes, that’s the sound of me dropping my cup of egg nog. Because Rich Beeson could have simply counted field offices to make the inference that something was going on—Obama had three to four times as many field offices as Romney in the swing states. Or could have simply counte…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…be kept between 70 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. (See section 28-34-134 of the bill, requirements (1) and (2).) By contrast, the Kansas Department of Health licensing survey for other ASCs contains no mention of room temperature. Nor does the Risk Management Survey Report for ASCs. The Kansas regulations for freestanding childbirth centers do specify room temperature, but stipulate only that the entire facility must stay between 68 an…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…eir hands by turning off the floor cameras, which made them seem anti-small-d-democratic, and by holding a vote to roll back consumer protections in the middle of the protest. Louie Gohmert screaming and pointing at his colleagues didn’t help much, either. Doesn’t Democratic fundraising off the sit-in prove they weren’t serious? No more than Republican fundraising off repealing the Affordable Care Act. The point here was to get political leverage….