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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

By Mark LeVine

…f for the benefit of corrupt but charismatic leaders is as relevant in the United States and Europe—where metal was born and its extreme narratives were shaped—as it is in the Muslim world, where it flowered not long after. If the music can encourage greater introspection among its young fans in the United States and increased communication and understanding between them and their counterparts in the Middle East, metal might one day be credited wi…

Obama’s Jewish Problem

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…t war to mobilize for disarmament. Jewish neocons, fearful that a disarmed United States would be unable to play a central role in protecting Israel, took the leadership in warning against a “Vietnam syndrome.” Security for the United States and Israel, they argued, comes from military strength, and those who seek peace, disarmament, and reconciliation with antagonists are naive, utopian, dangerous, and de facto anti-American or anti-Israel. Spiri…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…dgets from the government. Then there’s the idiosyncratic situation in the United States whereby health coverage, for a lot of people, comes through their employer. Employers who provide health coverage in the U.S. aren’t doing charity. In the United States it’s how most people get health coverage. That’s the system we have. Catholic institutions employ non-Catholics, and contraception is a part of basic health care for most people, for good reaso…

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…f Church and State, the National Council of Jewish Women, leaders from the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, and others are calling for full coverage of abortion access in health care reform and to “ensure the final health care reform bill respects diverse religious beliefs,” according to a press release from the RCRC. The sequence of events leading up to the Stupak amendment demonstrates the propensity for advocates of “common…

A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…seemed like a problem that was happening “out there” instead of within the United States. With the rise of the Soviet Union to a world power and the start of the Cold War, those pesky demons once again entered the world of politics. In the shadow of communism, Merrill Unger, one of the premiere demonologists of the 20th century, wrote Biblical Demonology: A Study of the Spiritual Forces Behind the Present World Unrest. Suddenly, the United States…

Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

By Sarah Posner

…ng in the PPACA. Earlier last week, the political advocacy group Catholics United — which had helped round up Catholic support for the final health care bill that was opposed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and other participants in the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition — gathered over 30 signatures of Catholics in the Cincinnati area, including 11 nuns, calling on the SBA List “to stop making the false claim that Congressman…

Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

Americans must stop thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a court of law. It’s a court bent on giving political whims the force of law and on converting America into a Christian nation. Some of its most significant recent decisions hasten that conversion. Last week, the court compelled taxpayers to fund “religious indoctrination” at Christian schools. It then forced a narrow, conservative Christian religious belief onto the entire countr…

‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ow why Brockschmidt in particular thinks so. I’m eager to hear her unique, international perspective. Is America slouching towards Christian fascism? Amerikas Gotteskrieger: Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet Annika Brockschmidt Rowohlt Taschenbuch October, 2021 Brockschmidt is a German author, journalist, and scholar. Her new book, Amerikas Gotteskrieger: Wie die Religiöse Rechte die Demokratie gefährdet (roughly translated as “Ame…

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

…shells landed on hospitals, refugee camps and UN facilities, and when the United States did all it could to block all international action to restrain and condemn the Israeli actions. The choice for progressive Christian leaders today is not between guilt-ridden silence and full-throated denunciation of Israeli policy and Israeli aggression. It is certainly not a choice between keeping silent and presuming to lecture Jews on Judaic ethics. Rather…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ncil. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20 models bills of Project Blitz with the bills they track and she found that 71 bills introduced in 2018 (or carried over from the 2017 state legislative session) are based on the model bills or are similar in intent. Of the bills tracked by Americans United [see bill descriptions in side bar of the original post on…