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Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…nct faculty, and they do not want to.” The university lost their case four times at both regional and national levels, but Seattle University president Stephen Sundborg said in 2016 he expected the case to go as far as the Supreme Court. According to Sundborg, the university is “taking a stand” against the NLRB. The NLRB and a union could require the university to “hire faculty openly hostile to our Jesuit way of teaching and Catholic identity,” a…

Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

By Sara Kamali

…the term itself onto those who are actually deserving of the label. White nationalism is transnational Currently, a Muslim American can be prosecuted as a foreign terrorist, but a White nationalist cannot. This is because there’s a differential between a “homegrown violent extremist” and a “domestic violent extremist” within the Department of Homeland Security lexicon. A “homegrown violent extremist” acts under the influence or direction of a For…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…iv. He has lectured academically at a number of institutions including The New York Public Library, and is proud member of Writer’s Guild and Dramatist’s Guild. Today he lives in Los Angeles with his partner, is pitching a new Muslim family sitcom, and is rarely beat up. Parvesh Cheena recently starred in NBC’s comedy series Outsourced as Gupta and is the voice of Blades on The HUB Network’s new cartoon, Transformers: Rescue Bots. Parv grew up in…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…Circling My Mother, Pearl, and a collection of short stories. She is also New York’s official State Author. Her latest book, Reading Jesus, brings a writer’s eye to the narrative focal point of the Christian scriptures, the four Gospels. After a lifetime struggling with her Catholic faith (and her father’s abandoned Judaism), Gordon turned to these texts more resolutely than she ever had before. What she found there is messy and contradictory, fa…

“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…rhaps to participate in the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a new national Christian Right bill mill and legislative network that Wommack helped to found, which was designed to “bring lawmakers together in support of clear biblical principles.” The Coalition held a large two-day conference in September which sought to “empower citizens” to change the country with biblical values and “to educate, unify and mobilize Christians to stand…

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

Yes, world, it is true: not all Mormons are alike. That’s the news that’s making headlines as buzz continues to build about the nascent presidential campaign of former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. Of course, I’ve been saying it for months here at RD: Romney is what many Mormons call a TBM—or “true-believing Mormon”—an orthodox believer and devout practitioner of the faith. Huntsman? Well, he’s something else—an other-than-orthodox Mormon of a…

The Ghosts and Illusions of the Occupation

By Sarah Posner

…ly beaten and detained, without charge, by Israeli Border Police in East Jerusalem, I thought to myself, why doesn’t this change everything? By everything, I mean the understanding, or at least an acknowledgement, over here, in American Jewish conversation, of the occupation. After all, can you look at Tariq Abu Khdeir’s swollen, bruised, and bloody face, or at the video of the police officers pummeling him on the ground, and not say to yourself,…

Crying Witch: Learning From the O’Donnell “Dabbling” Debacle

By Spencer Dew

…Craft. It should be emphasized, of course, that Wiccans and Satanists are worlds apart as religious traditions; yet the labeling of “witches” in the Wiccan sense as “satanic” in the Christian sense has a deep history, one that leads Wiccan high priestess Selena Fox, a veteran of the struggle for Wiccan and pagan civil rights, to speak of the O’Donnell mess as a “teaching moment” for Wiccans and all Americans. Not only does this situation present…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…and criminal failings. The extra-marital affairs, hush money payments, obstruction of justice, and the Russia probe—none of this will move the needle on white evangelical support for Trump. On one hand, it’s easy to see why. He’s delivered on his campaign promises to fill the courts with anti-choice judges, and now his base sniffs the possibility of a full reversal of Roe v. Wade. But I want to reiterate another point. Evangelicalism’s moral milit…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…angelical absurdities illustrate this nicely. If not for the questions The New Yorker’s exposé raises about apparent congressional ethics violations by North Carolina Representative Mark Meadows, former chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus, it’s unclear how newsworthy many journalists would consider the events surrounding the discovery of an Allosaurus skeleton used in a dishonest “documentary” that then ended up as a star attraction at The Creat…