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Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…erate political classes, religious leaders and activists eager for more compromise. You have preached civility while media leaders suborned violence to advance their partisan positions, drooled over the phantom middle, begging and pleading and whining for peaceable politics while, on count after count, our irrational, uncompromising, hateful, and corrupt (but smiling) leaders ground the people down. You have ignored or failed to understand how our…

Much-Married Newt Gingrich Converts to Catholicism

By Bill Berkowitz

…on to Catholicism – the faith of his third wife, Calista Bisek — hasn’t compromised his predilection for going for the jugular. Whether it’s insisting that “[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us” — as he told Fox’s Bill O’Reilly shortly after the passage of California’s anti-same-sex marriage constitutional amendment— or claiming that President Barack Obama was paving the road toward a…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…tive Christian groups in particular) are well organized and can mobilize impressive resistance to proposed policies perceived as threatening homeschool freedoms, but the fierce independence that leads many families to homeschool in the first place also creates more diversity within their ranks than outsiders might assume. It’s also worth recognizing that communicating a compelling narrative about the world is the job of every parent, religiously-m…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…’m not sure how you can really have conversations about different people’s practices and expressions of faith and conceptions of the holy. How do you have that conversation without impressing upon those people that you think their beliefs are wrong? It’s tricky. The Christian paradigm makes interfaith dialogue very difficult unless the Christian is willing to accept a certain kind of fluidity and a certain amount of unknowability of the reality of…

Sometimes You Can’t Say a Word

By Jonathan L. Walton

…t of Martin Luther King’s assassination fielded celebratory calls as a telephone operator in Memphis, Tennessee, telephoned us to awake my four-year-old twins from their sleep. Through her sniffles and giggles, this loving grandmother and now proud American citizen, kept repeating, “you tell those babies Obama did it! Obama did it! Wake them up and let them know that “O’RockoBama” [my son’s pronunciation] really did win tonight!” And I also receiv…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rayer, has created not merely a digital tool, but an interactive spiritual practice that is progressively interpreting and reconfiguring scripture in the context of a multilingual, global community. The practice itself “blesses” the iPhones and their users. Similar collaborative transformations are happening with literally hundreds of apps, Facebook groups, and Twitter feeds for the Bible, the Qur’an, the Torah, the Book of Mormon, the Roman Catho…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…basic needs: hydration, warmth, companionship. Chaplains are not there to proselytize or convert, and many times, religious conviction comes second to a ministry of presence to the grieving and worried. The Federation of Fire Chaplains explains on their web site that they are “non-denominational, non-sectarian,” and do not compromise people’s “belief or convictions.” When it became clear that many people in the Oakland warehouse known as Ghost Sh…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…n which both one of the first things Mohammed really has to do in order to prove that he’s a prophet is overcome the Jews. Those early religious bases of a lot of modern culture place the overcoming of Judaism at the center of what it means to create a more perfect society. Starting to read like a Christian and not like a Jew, learning to relate to the world like a Christian and not like a Jew, learning to relate to your body like a Christian, not…

The Wounded People of God

By Anthea Butler

…lested multiple children, one on the day of their first communion. The new priest wanted to provide a forum for healing for parishioners, but realized his position perhaps was not the best one from which he could provide solace or healing given this particular situation. So he asked me and another colleague to intervene. It was a tough but rewarding experience, one I carry with me whenever I speak or write on this issue. So understand, when I crit…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…k? And then there was the professor. She was so filled with outrage over oppressive practices that limited women’s choices that she wanted the United States to engage in a political war with those countries to change what they did. So little did she know about the local contexts, and so little credit did she give them, that the only hope for them lay in marines from Alabama, Mavis Leno, or President George W. Bush (whose mythical CV features only…