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Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…he first mosque in North America near Ross, North Dakota in 1929 (and this welcome of immigrants, given recent events in Syria, is a history more urgent to our memories). And Teddy Roosevelt complicatedly rediscovered himself in the badlands, leaving a legacy of one of the most beautiful National Parks in the nation. The park bears his name. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Add in our literary his…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at regular intervals to demand higher walls and harder hearts. We are now at a…

The Deadly Politics of (in)Difference Is Killing Trans Women of Color

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…difference. A natural result of that embrace, from our deepest postures of welcome, is an honest invitation to full participation in our own community’s entanglement of radical difference. This enthusiastic entanglement, in turn, becomes a shield against the violence that so precisely targets those deemed “different.” By welcoming these women—and all those our own theologies have threatened—we can begin to honor those whose lives have been taken b…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…and fixed gender assignments,” Bambara suggested. Such a shift would be a welcome improvement over gender troubles, which resulted from colonial pasts and continued to frustrate black social life. Toni Cade Bambara encouraged the construction of new myths and the cultivation of a revolution within the self as important methods for dismantling both racism and sexism. In the midst of a “by any means necessary” moment like that of the late 1960s, th…

Dear Readers: Letter From an Anonymous Liberal Pastor in Trump Country

By Thomas Warming

…uture of the American project, a bit grace drops in like a sunbeam to restore my confidence. Today it was a few dozen people gathered on the main corner of our little city to protest the executive order, waving signs saying MUSLIMS WELCOME and JESUS WAS A REFUGEE. The darkness can only last so long before the light comes again. We’re going to be okay, I think. But I’m still going to call the ACLU and give them my congregants’ exact flight informat…

The Deafening Silence of “Religious Freedom” Defenders on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…wyers and average citizens were rallying at airports around the country to welcome home detained travelers, as attorneys filed suits in five states, where judges saw fit to issue emergency injunctions blocking certain parts of the travel ban. It remains unclear what ADF’s “3100 allied attorneys” were doing last weekend, but it doesn’t appear to be standing up for “the religious freedom of those you disagree with theologically.” Similarly, the Beck…

Why Being “Faith Friendly” Isn’t Worth It For Democrats

By Daniel Schultz

…ouldn’t even have to give up on abortion rights or marriage equality! Just welcome people who disagree on those issues! Just let them be part of the party! Just don’t be so arrogant or dismissive of Real American values! Just don’t be such coastal elites! After eleven years, I’ve literally lost count of how many variations on the same basic theme I’ve heard from how many people. You can tell I have little patience left for it. Indeed, I long ago d…

What Does Repentance Look Like For the White Church?: A Conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper

By Deborah Jian Lee

…who says black people are to be feared and locked up, and Jesus who says “Welcome the stranger” and “I’ve come to set the prisoners free.” What’s your advice to people of color in white evangelical spaces? We have done two things for too long. One, we have centered white people in our conversations around race and power. We have placed at the center of the conversation the question of whether or not white people will accept the message. We have h…

Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…d in Trump Tower but in a house of worship. “Success is measured by how we welcome the stranger, care for the sick, care for the poor, and care for the hungry in practice and in policy,” reads the letter. “We do not believe that these are left or right issues. They are right or wrong issues,” the letter says. “And while we know no human being is perfect, we wish to speak with you about these moral issues because far too much is at stake for you to…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…, as with the many individual Catholic parishes that are explicit in their welcome to LGBTQ people, Rios says that at his church, “we accept everyone, appreciate everyone, and affirm everyone.” He acknowledges that Adventism has conservative values, but that it “doesn’t stop me or my congregation from loving everyone,” which was part of his call to minister at the vigil. In the days since the fire, the names and stories of the dead have continued…