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The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…obviously false as a description of the current cultural situation in the United States. In the current election cycle, that twinned history—scriptural and Protestant—virtually shouts its name from the rooftops, often in ways designed to drown out other stories, other names. Moreover, to refer to this history of the KJV as a history that dare not speak its name is decidedly strange in a nearly 400-page book that elects to devote precisely one pag…

The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…te, trapped by nature in their own country and at a safe distance from the United States. We’re obsessed and fascinated by them. They are different but still part of our shared human community. Our sense of “us” can safely expand to include them. But the “illegal” kids are migrants whose parents—Trump has described them as “rapists”—threaten U.S. national security and Americans’ personal safety and quality of life. According to Sessions, whereas t…

God, My Wife, And The Government: Defining Marriage

By Krista Kapralos

…an officer in my ministerial capacity.” Lynn is also director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, an organization that has fought to remove monuments of the Ten Commandments from public places, protect military enlistees from evangelistic campaigns, and end earmarks that place federal money in the hands of faith-based organizations. Americans United also advocates government support of same-sex unions. Lynn said he’s tempte…

United By Hate for Proposition 8

By Jonathan L. Walton

As we close in on the November 4th general election, much attention has been paid to the possibility of a “Bradley Effect.” Named for former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley who lost his 1982 gubernatorial bid despite having a lead in the polls, today some still wonder if racial fears will trump public professions when voters step inside voting booths on Tuesday. Yet in California, several conservative groups are counting on what political scientist…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…as well as analyzing the rise in hate crimes and speech against Jews both internationally and in the United States, Weisman provides a powerful voice about what it means and feels like to have such hate directed towards you. Reflecting on a conversation with someone who had denied that antisemitism still exists in the United States, Weisman responds “I recoiled at her words and argued passionately that Jews must never think that anti-Semitism has…

Latina in America: What CNN Got Wrong

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ltered regarding the rampant racism and prejudice against Latino/as in the United States. But after watching the CNN documentary I am overwhelmed with the urge to never leave Miami, because clearly the majority the United States clearly hates Latino/as. In addition, I finished the documentary thoroughly depressed. Is this really who we are? NO! I want to scream. Latino/as in religion, or more accurately, Christianity, were discussed the first even…

Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…he pages of the Qur’an and command Osama bin Laden to wage war against the United States. No, the United States has worked for generations to control the Middle East, supporting the Shah, backing the Mujahideen, arming Saddam Hussein against Iran, and stationing thousands of soldiers in Saudi Arabia. This, as Obama well knows, is the primary (though certainly not the only) reason Al Qaeda has targeted the United States. The religious diatribes of…

Blessed Be the Warmakers

By Svend White

…g the globe. Nor has the UN in recent memory imposed its own leader on the United States over the popular will, as did the United States itself when it essentially overruled the world by ousting Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali over petty political grudges in 1997. If we must resort to conspiracy theories, let’s at least follow the money trail and look at who really wields power today. If a Satanic New World Order is indeed under way, surel…

Beyond Progressive Religion

By Ivan Petrella

…atheism as the alternatives to fundamentalism. Neither does justice to the United States’ status as the world’s most influential nation. Instead, being progressive about religion should mean taking the logic of religious diversity to its ultimate conclusion and fostering the conditions to create multi-religious individuals. What’s involved? The United States is currently a multi-religious nation, and a nation that individuals of a variety of relig…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…an American road, since it’s so hard to get those paved these days. The United States was able to eliminate Libyan air defense systems in days, and this wasn’t even a full-scale war. Qaddafi has been revealed to be as impotent as Saddam, with an army that can be picked off as so many inert targets in a videogame you have a cheat code for. I’m sure many Arabs and Muslims across the region watched this and thought two things: what exactly was the…