Religion Dispatches
…MA Joanna Brooks San Diego State University Sharon Brous IKAR Linell Cady Arizona State University John Caputo Syracuse University Rachel Cowan George Mason University, Gary Dorrien Union Theological Seminary Eddie Glaude Princeton University Harry Knox Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Ira Lapidus University of California at Berkeley Khalid Latif New York University Kathryn Lofton Yale University Haroon Moghul Columbia University Antho…
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…as Chuck Pierce of Texas, Bill Johnson of California, and Patricia King of Arizona, teaches college-age kids, as he once preached, that “We are the Word made flesh again. We are the Reincarnation of Jesus Christ… Christ is no longer a man, he is a people.” He goes on to explain, “The God of peace will soon crush Satan, under your feet. There will be a feet company [sic], a Satan-crushing company, that will devour… every work of the enemy… it will…
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…y gun him down. The video was evidence in the murder trial of former Mesa, Arizona police officer Philip Brailsford, who shot Daniel Shaver five times in the back. Brailsford was acquitted earlier this month. The shooting itself isn’t a partisan issue. But the moral logic behind the cops’ actions—one mistake, just one, and you’re dead—is a key part of the right’s attempt to make the Trump administration and its allies totally unaccountable to the…
Read More…ollateral damage,” he brought them to “the Barn,” a small building in Ajo, Arizona, used by No More Deaths, to provide them with food, water, beds, and clean clothes. This is where he was arrested on April 17, 2018, and charged with two felony counts. I too am guilty of the same “crime” Warren committed, for I, along with thousands of other volunteers over the past decades, have walked the migrant trails bringing food, water, clothes, and medical…
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…think of the Muslim cultural center in New York, the immigration debate in Arizona, etc.) is the same problematic theo-logic behind the borders that define public discourse on sexuality and religion. Christianity has come to operate through a particular policing of borders—a logic of who is in and who is out—and a logic that led radical philosopher Frantz Fanon to assert, famously: “This is why we should place DDT, which destroys parasites, carrie…
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…d a new “crossing the Rubicon,” among other Rome-themed remarks. And while Arizona Republican Andy Biggs and the Texas GOP compare the FBI raid to the crossing of “the Rubicon”—thereby painting Garland and the FBI as wannabe-dictators marching to Rome—they would only be too happy to welcome a Caesar, so long as he was their own. As with “law and order” rhetoric, it becomes clear: consequences and laws are not for their own, not for conservatives….
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…religious exemptions from civil rights laws. This year, Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee passed laws requiring or allowing public schools to display the U.S. motto, “In God We Trust.” The Minnesota legislation, which included an In God We Trust amendment, passed but was vetoed by the governor. Marty expects the issue will be back in some form in 2019. As Project Blitz strategists saw it, they could gain political advantage by ge…
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…ing accelerator mass spectrometry in the laboratories of the University of Arizona, the University of Zurich and Oxford, these studies found, with 95% certainty, that the fabrication date of the linen of the Shroud was sometime between 1260 and 1390. Twelve hundred years too young, the Shroud is most likely a medieval creation. This is not to say the puzzle has been solved. Even if it was created by an artist or charlatan several hundred years ago…
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…that these so-called disfranchised people actually have (of Proposition 8, Arizona laws undermining Ethnic Studies, and continued attempts to undermine the teaching of evolution), be assured that I agree. The highest court exists to balance out the legislative tyranny of the majority; and the majority has definitely proven its capability of being tyrannical. However, how much of this country had the opportunity to study race, gender, and sexuality…
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…evel. I vividly remember listening to Public Enemy’s “By the Time I Get to Arizona” in support of making the King holiday a state holiday in the last remaining holdout. By 1994, however, King’s Dream seemed like a faraway fantasy. Drugs and gang violence had overtaken the mid-size city of Louisville, Kentucky. I watched in horror, like so many others, the taped beating of Rodney King, and later the L.A. riots in response to the acquittal of the fo…
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