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Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

…tweeted that “there’s no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines.” Five minutes later, they deleted the tweet and amended it to a more modest, relativized claim: https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/759855955118919680 Armed with screenshots, some savvy Twitter users documented the hasty edit. Why backtrack? In an email to RD, Stein’s Press Director, Meleiza Figueroa, explained that “there had been a miscommunication among staffers and an earl…

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…bley whose response, as Cornel West frequently writes, was: I don’t have a minute to hate, I’m gonna pursue justice for the rest of my life. In our post-Ferguson moment, collective anger has been one of the emotions fueling the protests in Baltimore, New York and elsewhere. Emotions are running high. Rather than flashpoint events, each new tragedy is one of a continuous string doing its work on the human psyche. However, in the midst of all of the…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…p the Vatican in all sorts of ways. I would have women priests within five minutes. In the encyclical, which I read pretty closely, he works to maintain that Creator-Creation distinction. He says at several junctions, “We cannot confuse these two things.” Those are the places where I went, “Darn it!” He came this close to a theological revolution in the Catholic church, and he backs off at the last minute. God is with us: what difference does that…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…written by oppressed people,” she says. “My people were shocked and for a minute they were fearful as to what was going to happen” says Perkins of his congregation. “That shock and fear has subsided, because we are people of faith and ultimately we know that our trust is in God.” “We are angry, we are grieving, we are organizing” says Khang, who challenges white evangelicals to listen to the concerns of evangelicals of color with more care and se…

Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…id that he hoped that that would be the case. At the end of the forty-five minute conversation, Gulen rose to offer a gift of a nicely packaged Cross ballpoint pen and an elegant looking bottle of perfume. He was happy, his associates told me as we were leaving the room, to have had the chance to talk about broad issues and the future of the movement. Ordinarily these days, they said, he has been consumed with darker matters, about the fate of his…

Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America

By Matthew Pehl

…studied at a Catholic “labor school” in Detroit in the early 1940s. Wait a minute, I thought: there are first-hand responses written by ordinary, lay Catholics in their own words? This was my “eureka” moment. And, sure enough, it turned out that there were a lot of potential sources. From that point on, I was invested in the story of Detroiters and how religion played out in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and unions. The Making of Working-Class…

The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…ey had. I make no claim to having been ahead of my time, and I loved every minute of my experience with that spirited and serious-minded faith community. But I was reminded of my outlier status back then when I read Ginia Bellafante’s piquant “Big City” interview with Kurt Andersen in Sunday’s Times. Andersen’s bestselling new book, Evil Geniuses, amounts to an extended mea culpa for his own inability, and the inability of culture liberals like hi…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…nce—went along with Mitch McConnell’s plan to sell a pig in a poke. A last-minute appeal to Christian values wasn’t going to change a thing. If it could have, surely it would have provided an easy off-ramp for the hideously unpopular BHCA. The ineffectiveness of common values isn’t even a specifically religious problem, to be honest. John Pavlovitz writes crisply and even more powerfully than Barber in service of the argument that John McCain ough…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…ing to observe how whitemanism’s own most effective promoters—the down-and-dirty, get-it-done operations like Heritage Action—don’t even bother to disown the racist core of the heritage they purport to defend. These well-funded and well-staffed groups are unabashed fans of white supremacy, and they consider it their sacred duty to perpetuate the idea of the United States as a white man’s paradise. As Jelani Cobb has noted, it’s even creepier that…