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Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…was “getting too big”—that he was rolling in self-importance and had lost contact with the actual lives of High Plains people. I’m very glad Daschle is gone, but let’s not deceive ourselves into thinking the stables have been cleansed. This episode only highlights the layers of built-up horseshit in a town where influence peddling grew by tenfold to a $3 billion industry over the past 15 years. Even straight-arrow Barack Obama still doesn’t get i…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…t of people before it was deleted. I’ve tried various means to make direct contact with you with no success. I also understand that you do not make yourself available for appointments, per your website. I have gone back and forth on whether or not to publish this letter, until a recent conversation with a friend compelled me to check and see if I could find the full message. It was back! So I watched. But the section posted in the tweet appears to…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…f God’s proclamation that homosexuality is “an abomination,” made same-sex contact legal, the nation became the enemy of God. And, as readers of the Old Testament know, a nation that is the enemy of God will find its armies destroyed. To preach this message to the world, members of Westboro Baptist Church attend military funerals, where they hold signs that say “God is America’s Enemy” and “Your Soldier’s in Hell.” Because people at funerals are e…

Open Letter to Creflo Dollar

By Lerone A. Martin

…er structure was clouded in a questionable history of inappropriate sexual contact with children? Or would you seek to place your family’s treasures, time, and talents elsewhere? Would YOU tell your catholic neighbors to send their children back to the same parish and priest that allowed children to be sexually abused? Would you tell them its only a “wreck?” Or would you tell them to find another church home? Those who left New Birth came to y…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…e customer base. Similarly, White Christian supremacy’s strength is not in numbers, but in theological-political devotion and ferocity. On the spiritual battlefield against porn, Johnson is training his son to be a Christian fascist like himself. His fatherly pride over his son’s “clean slate” says more about his investment in Jack’s capacity for disciplining his body to desire-control than it does actual porn use. Dismissing this process of fathe…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…signifies that the movements I discuss were not abstract, but lived by thousands of people, for whom they reshaped their religious worlds and their identities alike. I also like that there is a woman in a white headscarf making eye contact with the photographer behind the central figure. Something was happening in that space where Alland set up his camera. What’s your next book? My next book will describe polyculturalism at a larger scale, and is…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…possible to travel between them. If we understand your work correctly, the contact between those planes comes at a sacred center, which also links our sense of earthly order with some symbolic experience of chaos. Yes, archaic religious people did not fear chaos, because their sacred symbols convinced them that order and chaos are not ultimately enemies. At the sacred center there is a coincidence of opposites that harmonizes the two. But modern p…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…et out the vote efforts in southern Alabama: The Mobile NAACP crunched the numbers and showed local pastoral leadership that whatever they had done in recent years to turn out voters wasn’t working. The pastors then pushed for and got resources to do congregation-wide robo calls and voter reg tables at church events. There are legitimate concerns about churches getting involved this closely with a political campaign, whether Republican or Democrat…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…am so sorry to learn that from the sight of it, the difference is three thousand dollars! So, don’t shortchange yourself, folks. Anyone who wants the best, in today’s economic terms, must be willing to pay for it. Because, it is possible to come to Allah’s house, or to stand in Arafat on the day of mercy and miss the whole point. The conditions at Arafat are also tents (for most), but with no noisy AC it is actually more open and breezy. Anyway we…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…false one. With well over 100,000 deaths as of publication, more than the number of service members killed in World War I, America is living through an apocalyptic moment. But it’s also an apocalypse in the literal sense of an unveiling or disclosure—an unmasking. The coronavirus has unmasked how our lives are marked by a profound mutual dependence that challenges our self-understanding and political ideologies. It has unmasked a federal governme…