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The Super-Blah Billboard From American Atheists

By Alana Massey

…e target. Secondly, of all the bones they could pick with the Super Bowl, American Atheists chose praying fans as their target and presumably spent a considerable amount of their members’ money doing it? I know that their professed purpose is to protect the civil rights of atheists but couldn’t they have some harmless mission drift for the occasion and join forces with an anti-trafficking group or an activist network that calls out the rampant ho…

Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

By Sarah Posner

…Movement sees the future here, specifically the changing views of younger American Jews on Israel and Palestine. It may not agree on everything with J Street, but it knows it can’t be excluded from an association that claims to represent the views of all American Jews. UPDATE: J Street is asking supporters to sign a “thank you” note to Malcolm Hoenlein, the president of the Conference, and the Conference itself (“join us in thanking Malcolm Hoenl…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…loose and invisible organization, he sets out to unravel the whole knot of American political fundamentalism. Sharlet, who has since become one of the best journalists covering American religion today (and a columnist for Religion Dispatches), got a remarkable scoop some years back. An acquaintance invited him into Ivanwald, the community in Arlington, Virginia, that exposed him to a network of which few outsiders are aware. He calls it “The Famil…

Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

…I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” I want to show how relegating the genocide of America’s first peoples to an unfortunate historical side note is foundational to white Christian nationalism. Santorum’s comments represent a widespread understanding of history within the Religious Right. Religious Right leaders, going back to Jerry Falwell’s “I Love America” rallies from…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…epresents… “They represent a fierce, unapologetic, in-your-face assault on American history, American economics, American politics,” Magida said. “I don’t think this the time for that political theater.” In part, Magida attributes this changing culture to President Obama. “Barack showed the United States is not as viciously racist of a nation, as determinedly racist as the Nation has portrayed us. I’m not a white, blue-eyed devil; the tens of mill…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…hool of Divinity Terri Laws, PhD, Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Randall C. Bailey, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Interdenominational Theological Center Lee H. Butler, Jr., PhD, Distinguished Service Professor of Theology and Psychology, Chicago Theological Seminary Rev. Dominique A. Robinson, DMin, Dean of Chapel & Assistant Professor of Religion, Wiley College Rev. Stephanie M…

American Family Association Targets Radio Hosts Over Association With Critic

By Warren Throckmorton

…. Earlier this week, Jim Stanley, program director of AFA’s radio network, American Family Radio, sent notices to two talk show hosts who are associated with Howse, informing them that continued presence on the AFA’s radio network was conditioned on severing ties with Howse. The talk show hosts, John Loeffler and Todd Friel, have shows aired by American Family Radio and also speak at Howse sponsored events. According to Tim Wildmon, president of t…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…5143105118208 https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/880287503265280000 Most Americans root their moral precepts in faith, or at least they say they do. And Americans are practical universalists in some important senses. They like to think that “God is bigger than those things which seek to divide us,” as Rev. Traci Blackmon preached today; that although each faith has its own peculiarities, in the end they all point back to the same God with the sa…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…ction and distribution enterprise. Fea succinctly describes it both as the American Bible Society, and the American Bible Society, capturing both parts of the argument woven throughout the work. Its initial goal in Bible distribution was to “link remote and scattered settlements into a Bible nation,” and in doing so, to spread the Word that could “produce good citizens, improve the condition of families, inspire men and women to exercise their God…

Hanukkah Marks the Complexities of Assimilation and Syncretism Faced by American Jews

By Yehuda Kurtzer

…ish altogether,” but the stuff of “what is this Judaism that I’ve chosen.” American Jews are multitudes in our identities and ideologies, and I welcome the messiness. The choices that others make do not always conform to my own; but the acceptance of that difference is essential for me to want my own autonomous choices to be taken seriously as well. I’m also enthralled by the vast expressions of difference among Jews seeking a relationship to Juda…