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Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…ty in the Palestinian parliament in what was universally acknowledged as a free election. Though a public opinion poll published in the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz showed that 64% of the Israeli population support direct negotiations between Israel and Hamas (while only 28% expressed opposition), Obama has chosen to side with the right-wing minority in opposing any such talks. Furthermore, Obama insists that Hamas should have never been even…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…rt has been crucial for the Gulf;” “Faith groups are a necessary voice for better Gulf rebuilding policy;” “Faith groups are a valuable voice for national action.” The report’s authors modestly note that while it looks at the “role faith groups have played and continue to play in the region’s recovery and renewal since Hurricane Katrina,” it is “by no means a comprehensive account” but rather an attempt to show “how important faith groups’ work ha…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…across a ruined Southern landscape. For the season premiere they’re in the Georgia countryside where they’ve found, not surprisingly, a Southern Baptist church. I’m thinking most RD readers, if they saw this most recent episode, threw some popcorn at the screen. Why? Well, apparently The Walking Dead needs to hire some historical/religious advisors because they put a gigantic bloody Jesus, hanging on a cross, in a church that’s named, simply, “Sou…

The Week in Religion, Poetically:

By Michael J. Altman

…poorly named) Bald Knob Cross of Peace in Alto Pass, Ill for restorations. Georgia based atheist group Foundation Bey beond Belief is encouraging its members to happily give money to religious charities. It remains to be seen how happy folks will be about “International Blasphemy Rights Day.” The September 30th event is being organized by the Center for Inquiry, a New York based atheist group. Got a problem? No time for church? Try drive-thru pray…

Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…-advanced and active. Thus, even the recent resurgence of violence in Iraq between the Sunnis and Shias has again been described as “ethnic,” when the focus of identity defining the contending communities is explicitly religious. Do journalists need to be reminded that “Sunni” is not the name of an “ethnic” group? Expect with a high degree of certainty then that, outside of the perversions of Fox News, we will never hear the word “religion” uttere…

Government Prayer Isn’t Inclusive—Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n the government weighs in on one side of religious debate; nothing does a better job of roiling society.” In the run up to Easter and the National Day of Prayer (May 2), chaplains and guest chaplains around the nation have sowed religious division and discord as they delivered prayers at state legislatures, and now, federal courts are giving them their stamp of approval. In the Pennsylvania Statehouse, a state rep delivered a jaw-dropping invocat…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…aving this terrible sin of slavery at its beginning, then getting a little better with Jim Crow and a little better with civil rights. It’s too easy to say, “No, things aren’t perfect, but we’ve come a long way.” We cannot dismantle what we have not named. The truth is that black people in North Carolina had more political power in 1868 than they did in 1968. We had more political power after the Voting Rights Act in 1965 than we do today after Sh…

Religious Activism Behind Anti-Abortion Movement Outreach to Blacks

By Sarah Posner

…a kind of genocide — highlights the result of years of coalition-building between conservative black activists and the religious right. The Times piece describes, among other things, the Georgia billboard campaign claiming that “black children are an endangered species,” but doesn’t address the data, dissected earlier in the week by Shani O. Hilton at The American Prospect, that black women have a disproportionately higher abortion rate because t…

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…s of my life. It was like lying in peace on the Cumberland Island sands in Georgia while the warm sun washed sleep down upon me—except it wasn’t sleep, it was better than sleep. I remember my parents’ consternation over my vigils (after all normal people prayed only as much as they had to and no more, right?) and the personal Heaven I felt I carried with me when praying at leisure. When I first requested permission at school to “pop out and pray”…

We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…tutional responsibility. Second, shallow forgiveness blurs the distinction between forgiveness and healing. Hunt and Freeze clearly have learning to do. Given that Hunt’s transgression was found out in 2010, his denials and minimizations this year indicate that he hasn’t grasped how his behavior puts women and churches at risk. Freeze lost a lucrative job in 2017, but as recently as this summer he used his position to tell a victim of sexual viole…