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Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today

By Kaya Oakes

…ot so much for the general public, but to translate things that are by non-Americans for American scholars and a public that’s not the same public as New York Times readers. This is something that struck and surprised me: how much translation there is in each of the sub-theological worlds of North America. Knowing and being able to read in one language says nothing of the real access to the idea of coming from that linguistic world. We know that t…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…would tout that as his motivation for trying to align himself with African-Americans—and ultimately even identifying as African-American. He was the first white person in the state of Indiana to adopt a black child. He always had people of color around him in the early days, and he was quite vocal about pushing back against Jim Crow ideology. He was an orderly in a hospital that refused to treat black patients, and he protested against that. He al…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…c folks—he made them a deal. It was very straightforward. It was like, he knew they knew that he was not the kind of Christian they have always said America needed. He said, “I’ll give you what you want. I’ll give you the Supreme Court you want, I’ll do away with the Johnson amendment to make you more politically powerful. I’ll give you Mike Pence as a vice president. I’ll make abortion illegal. I’ll do all that for you.” And they took the deal. T…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…described Christian entrepreneurs and the laws and regulations that govern American business. Indeed, as historian Darren Grem relates in a compelling new study, when evangelicals found the public square increasingly hostile to religious influence, they turned to corporations to enact and advance their conservative values. The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity Darren E. Grem Oxford, 2016 Grem’s new book, The…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…f the church in our spiritual-but-not-religious age. Do you think that the American church can recover from it? I think it depends on whether the American church decides to live into an identity that affirms the love of God for all people. It’s not like it’s a wound from the past. It’s a wound in the present. Everyone wants live into Easter, but no one wants to be on Good Friday. Everyone wants to live in Resurrection, but no one wants to recogniz…

I’d Rather Go Back to Yemen than Face NYPD

By Hussein Rashid

…ost to real crime prevention, and the ways in which the NYPD is arrogating new powers for itself that jeopardize the freedom of all New Yorkers. Take this passage on page 10, for example: [W]here the NYPD was spying in Arab neighborhoods with sizeable populations of Syrian Jews and Egyptian Christians, the intelligence unit explicitly focused on the Muslim populations. The surveillance was going on at a time when a (non-Muslim) Syrian community in…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…nvokes the language of “deprogramming” that was common in mid-20th century American efforts to help “brainwashed” members escape the seeming abuses of new religions, known popularly (and pejoratively) as “cults.” Both meanings combine in A Glitch in the Matrix. Programming is bad, and to be programmed is bad. But becoming a programmer—a player who can bend and manipulate and interact with the simulation—is good. There’s a sense of superiority in b…

New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…erks around New York State are gearing up for a busy Sunday as the state’s new marriage equality law goes into effect. The state is expecting such a flood of same-sex applicants that day that New York City has even implemented a lottery for 764 slots for Sunday. Two clerks who won’t be busy will be Rosemary Centi of Guilderland and Laura Fotusky of Barker. Both women have quit their jobs, saying granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples viola…

Islamophobia is Real, Mr. Mayor—A New York City Muslim Explains

By Hussein Rashid

…ms of violence are to be appreciated more than others. If the words of Fox News can lead to an arson attack against a mosque, and general Islamophobia results in knifings in pizzerias, then the words and actions of the Mayor of New York have a much more profound impact. Muslims in the city are bombarded by media coverage that paints us as suspect. The city’s police department paints us as suspect. Advertising in the veins of the city paints us as…

Toward a More Inclusive Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…es. In many ways, it sets the stage for and goes beyond the open letter to American Muslims published by Reza Aslan and Hassan Minhaj here on RD. According to the ISPU report, there is a deep desire by American Muslims to return to a religious imagination that isn’t bounded by simple legal edicts, but which calls forth the best of a person through a Prophetic example. As a result, one can no longer see mosques operating in isolation from American…