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Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…the streets to mourn Rabbi Chaim Mertz. Meanwhile, pastors in Kentucky and Texas have sued to prevent the “unconstitutional application” of restrictions that violate church members’ religious freedom. Rev. Tony Spell of the Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has repeatedly disobeyed Gov. John Bel Edwards’s stay-at-home orders by holding church services, sometimes busing in hundreds of people to attend. “I pray,” he told worshipers…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

…the sake of protecting white supremacy. We are confronted yet again by the sanctity afforded white lives (even when engaging in violent and criminal activity) by the state, in comparison to the treatment of Black lives, which are seen as expendable at any moment. In 1977, Black South African theologian Allan Boesak wrote, “in order to maintain the status quo, it is necessary for whites to believe and keep on believing, that they are innocent.” Unt…

Satanic or Systemic? Promise Keepers Are Back and Looking to End Racism Via ‘Trickle-Down Racial Reconciliation’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…epers are inhabiting a new landscape dominated by social media, hyper-partisanship, and balkanized media outlets that keep Americans of every background in cocoons of confirmation bias. Whereas in the ‘90s Promise Keepers were at the forefront of articulating what would become a 21st century American Christian masculinity, they’re now just one of many as muscular Christianity abounds in evangelical circles. Nevertheless, in the midst of the social…

With the End of ‘Roe’ the Verdict is in: The Supreme Court Majority is Christian Nationalist

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ized a lethal pandemic were eagerly getting vaccinated. California had thousands of daily Covid cases and a hundred or so deaths a day and had implemented a responsive rule meant to maximize freedom and limit transmission by adjusting measures according to infection rates. Depending on infection rates, one of four tiers of restrictions applied to an area. In-home gatherings were either banned or limited to a percentage of capacity or, for private…

Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…s as it once was. And, as the case of Brittney Poolaw shows, it isn’t just Texas’s “heartbeat” law and its pernicious influence on other state legislatures that belie such claims. On October 6, Oklahoma’s Comanche County Court sentenced the 21-year-old Poolaw, a member of the Comanche Nation, to four years in state prison on a first-degree manslaughter conviction for miscarrying her fetus. The prosecution based its case on the fact that the fetus…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…he cases of “Kelly Easter in Tennessee and Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin in Texas [who each] wanted to provide foster homes for refugee children, but they were refused service by taxpayer-funded agencies working under federal contracts because the women are LGBTQ.” All of the cases involve the use of state or federal funds. When the Tennessee bill was introduced, Pam Kelner, the executive director of Jewish Family Services, told The Tennessean, “If…

The End of Roe and the Assault on Trans People — Fail to See the Bigger Picture and We’ll Never Be Free

By Jacqui Lewis

…children against their will during the slavery era, to the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican women who were forcibly sterilized, America has repeatedly demonstrated the savage violence of which it is capable. But this moment’s wide-ranging threat also points to our deepest promise: We’re all in the same fight together. Jewish people whose religious traditions enshrine abortion rights in thousands of years of halachic tradition; trans siblings…

Originalism Needn’t Always Result in Abortion Bans — Just Ask al-Qaʿida?

By Nathan French

…the Taliban. This isn’t uncommon. Several months ago, after the passage of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), author Stephen King tweeted, “The Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.” Such usage, Sajida Jalalzai wrote on RD, is not only a perpetuation of Islamophobic beliefs, but is also a “refusal to acknowledge white Christian nationalism at the heart of anti-abortion legislation in America.” Such posts minimize the plurality of Muslim debates on t…

Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right

By Brad Stoddard

…the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, who killed 26 people in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and who killed 26 people in the 2017 shooting at First Baptist Church in Texas. AR-15s aren’t just popular rifles for people who commit mass shootings, however. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that AR-15-style rifles account for one out of every five firearm sales in the nation and Americans own an estimated 15 million AR-15-s…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…ars came after reading a report by KENS 5, a TV news station local to that Texas community, where 19 fourth-graders were shot to pieces. The report was an eyewitness account by a survivor of the shooting. The boy, whom the reporter did not identify, said he and a friend “heard the shooting through the door.” He added that, “I told my friend to hide under something so he won’t find us. I was hiding hard. And I was telling my friend to not talk beca…