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Will Internet Kill Mormonism Too? Or Just Missionaries?

By Holly Welker

…to Spanish-speaking missions come home fluent; and missionaries who go to Asian-speaking missions just come home.” We never had enough study time. If you didn’t understand a gospel topic before you went on your mission, chances were slim that you would learn a lot more about it as a missionary, especially because we were extremely limited in the books we were allowed to read: officially permitted reading consisted of less than a dozen texts, incl…

Immigrant-Bashing, Indifference, and the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ls said his views did not reflect the core values of the GOP. Still, these numbers make it difficult to claim Trump has no evangelical support. What happened to the evangelical litmus tests on abortion, religious liberty, or marriage? Trump is hardly a standard-bearer there, as Moore and Rodriguez note. But more central to Moore and Rodriguez’s point: what do white evangelical voters really think about immigrants and immigration reform, and how th…

2011’s Best Books—
Or Just a Great Reading List

By Haroon Moghul

…rison industry that sees America incarcerate more people, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of its population, than almost any other country in the world, including China. Chew on that for a few minutes. But for all his willingness to think outside the box, I found a truly disheartening passage in his conclusion. After spending pages describing the cruelty of our justice system, he makes the offhand point that at least what he is sugges…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…ead the Emma Lazarus quotation gracing the Statue of Liberty alongside the Asian Exclusion Act or contemporary immigration policies. Or remember that on November 4, 2008, as Obama was elected, Arkansas banned adoption by individuals cohabiting outside of marriage—what many deemed a poorly-disguised effort to criminalize lesbian and gay adoptions—the measure passed with 57% supporting and 43% opposing. That same day also saw passage of California’s…

How the Right’s War on ‘Critical Race Theory’ Taps into the Powerful Religion of American Innocence

By Peter Laarman

…ealth, the subjugation and exploitation of women, the vicious treatment of Asian immigrants, etc.) cannot alter the central fact that ours remains a virtuous history, that we were and are a redeemer nation, a city set on a hill, a beacon of democracy and human rights that still sends its bright beams of hope around the world. What so infuriates the keepers of the flame is how the witness of Black people, going back to the very beginning, interfere…

Is Yoga OK for Catholics or Not?: The Conversation Continues

By Kyle Garton-Gundling

…The Letter could have categorically commanded Catholics to stay away from Asian-based meditation and exercise methods altogether (which some yogaphobic screeds do), just as the Humanae Vitae encyclical futilely commanded Catholics to avoid artificial contraception. But it doesn’t. Instead, it explicitly leaves room for integrating eastern meditation into a Catholic life. Although I read the Letter differently from Jain, I share her larger concern…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…an Fisherfolk and Families, is that 80 percent of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian families in the Gulf will feel some economic squeeze. Of the 40,000 Vietnamese families living in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, one in three works in the seafood industry. For Louisiana, most of the Vietnamese fishermen affected live in New Orleans East, in the communities of Versailles and Village L’est, both served by the Mary Queen of Viet Nam church. Accord…

We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…lonialism, and genocide against Israel’s enemies. Warrior was also among a number of scholars who emphasized that African Americans were not the only Americans to identify with the Israelites. White European settlers had also adopted the Israelite Exodus narrative as they understood themselves as God’s chosen people who had a right to claim their promised land of America at the costly expense of the original inhabitants. Based on the Christian wit…

RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming

By Rumya Putcha

…a fever pitch under the anti-immigration Trump administration, Brown South Asian bodies experience racism in ways that stand apart from the well-documented forms of systemic injustice that fall under the category of “Anti-Black” in the United States. Jain’s corrective, arguably addressed to Gandhi and Wolff, reveals that when it comes to talking about the lasting and lived legacies of White supremacy in the United States context, there are still t…

House Dems Confident Immigration Reform Will Pass—With LGBT Equality

By Sarah Posner

…e Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus were joined by a coalition of 37 immigration, LGBT, and faith advocacy groups in support. The Congressional speakers, particularly Luis Gutierrez (IL), Jerrold Nadler (NY), Jared Polis (CO), and Mike Honda (CA) expressed confidence that a bill that included equal treatmen…