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Latest Book on Evangelical ‘Extremism’ Reflects Pervasive Tendency to Beat Up on Judaism to Save Jesus

By Greg Carey

…ican Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism is the book for you. Written as a travel journal-slash-pilgrimage, the book tracks how White American evangelicals have soiled their witness. In the process, they’ve stoked social division, promoted a would-be dictator, and driven millions away from the church. Especially young adults. A wonderful work of journalism, Alberta’s book also passes along one of Christianity’s most dangerous habits: a pernicious,…

Hijab: Culture, Custom, and Chaos

By Amina Wadud

…e length of my dreadlocks down my back. I stick to this, especially when I travel; although I am always asked if I can take my scarf off when at the airport. Either that or I’m given the pat over. I guess to see if I have a bomb with those locks! I think to myself, yes, I can take this off, but I say “No.” Not here, and not now. I exercise choice that some are denied, and that is as important as what choice I exercise. The freedom to make both cho…

Atheism’s Dark Side Aiding the Trump Agenda

By Stephen LeDrew

…ry of Harris’ comments from this Real Time appearance. Long before Trump’s travel ban, Harris was arguing that America should ethnically profile “Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim” at airport security. Recent events should compel atheists to assess the impact of these views, proudly promoted by their exalted public representatives. I, like many other atheists who were optimistic about this movement’s prospects…

The Absence of Public, Visible Mourning Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight COVID

By Joshua Ladon

…g reflects a broader disengagement from death throughout the pandemic. The number of deaths is a rolling tab, a new national debt, scrolling at the bottom of the TV screen. There are no funeral marches, no mass services at cemeteries. The images and sounds of death are absent from our news media. It’s too dangerous for a camera crew to enter an ICU ward. How might the airing of choking, coughing and strained breathing, like war footage, change our…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…nneled to the “misinformation experts”– five self-anointed specialists who travel the country, speak to state legislatures, address incestuous conferences and self-congratulatory networks, and through their media appearances, access and acolytes, generate a snowball effect. They have amplified questions on Islam and kept them in the public eye. These five have pushed many of the questions and debates that occupy much of our national conversation…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…titudes and policies. The U.S. last summer cut aid to Uganda and imposed a travel ban against officials in the African country who are responsible for anti-LGBT and other human rights abuses. The Center for Constitutional Rights in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit against Scott Lively, an American evangelical pastor, on behalf of SMUG for allegedly exploiting anti-gay attitudes in Uganda before Parliamentarian David Bahati introduced the Anti-Homosexu…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Red/Blue ‘National Divorce’ Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag

By Thomas Lecaque and Joshua Call

…s collectively operating, no matter the insistence that “interstate trade, travel, and state relations would continue.” No, Greene’s suggestion ignores the most basic fact of the American electorate: There is no such thing as a red or blue state. All states are, quite obviously, a mixture of political views. The distribution of those voters shifts over time, as does the makeup of state and local government. Go ahead and ask an even moderately info…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…er life for his family.” Bishop Robert MacElroy of San Diego described the travel ban as “shameful” and “rooted in xenophobia and religious prejudice,” and called on Catholics to resist being silent about it. And Bishop Jamie Soto of Sacramento was even more explicit in his call for the church to take action. Soto referred back to the sanctuary movement of the 1980s, when churches housed immigrants fleeing violence in Central America. “Besides the…

Andraé Crouch, “The Greatest Hymn Writer of Our Age,” Dies at 72

By Anthea Butler

…s most widely known and longest lasting performer. In the 1970’s, he would travel to around the world, playing at Billy Graham crusades, performing at both Carnegie hall and Royal Albert Hall. For many, it was their introduction to contemporary black gospel music. Groups like the Gaithers sang Andrae Crouch’s songs, and secular artists like Elvis Presley and Paul Simon recorded covers of his music. His choirs would back both Madonna and Michael Ja…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…over the next week was an adventure, to put it mildly. In Athens, everyone traveling to the United States was patted down and all carry-on items were unpacked and closely examined, without exception; travelers were not permitted to purchase liquids of any kind, even in the duty-free shops. These developments may soon become standard operating procedure. Part of the story that has played out in the press has been a story of globalization, of the di…