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Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…r that matter, is that they are so personally strange as to make their ministries almost unclassifiable. Is this the religious right? It’s not clear that even those who appreciate the label would want this guy. Although tired of “being smeared” and “defamed” on the internet by “gay apologists,” as he puts it, Lively, who is a lawyer, has decided not to sue. Instead he is embarking on a campaign “to give them a taste of their own medicine and expos…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…declares Notre Dame’s authorized refusal to pay for contraceptives for its students or staff, and mailing the authorization document to those companies, which under federal law are obligated to pick up the tab, could be thought to ‘trigger’ the provision of female contraceptives. But then this week, in one of the more head-spinning moves of the entire convoluted contraception debate, Notre Dame announced that it was restoring contraception coverag…

Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril

By Elizabeth Drescher

…democratic, collaborative, transparent, and dialogical ethos of its earliest enthusiasts. No reasonable communicator these days, then, expects a passive mass of consumers to gobble up a magisterially-broadcast message whole, not having the opportunity to share their own, potentially influential, perspectives. Hence those Twitter hashtags at the bottom of your TV screen. We expect interactivity. We assume someone’s listening. We live ready for co…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…is the time for a third option to have its chance. At the very least, suggests Boston University anthropologist Robert Hefner in a recent essay, these theories “provide a fascinating point of entry into the thoughts of Muslim leaders on global capitalism.” Are the Fundamentals Sound? The most tangible outgrowths of Islamic economic thought, the banks, tend to be rather quiet about the visionaries’ grand ambitions. Their spokespeople sound like ban…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n? In case you missed it, Alito’s flag-gate is a two-part story. In the first installment, news broke that, in the days after January 6th 2021, neighbors reported that an upside down American flag had been flown at Sam Alito’s house. The New York Times writes: While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision. The upside down US flag has been used…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…aspirational. Long before East versus West, there was Eastern Europe against Western; swarthy Mediterraneans dragging down flaxen Nordics, even presently present with industrious Germany condescending to a Greece heading for the Grexit. Thanks for democracy but what have you done for us recently? Even the adjectives are ominous: Oriental. Balkan. Byzantine. Why explain what makes someone your enemy when you can just point to geography? Melissa Mc…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…conservative religiosity) or national insecurity? When Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville asked “Why America Wanted Change But Voted for Continuity” in 2004, they came up with the best answer: “A narrative is the key to everything, and the Republicans had a much more coherent attack and narrative… The president was able to keep the election centered on safety (the terrorist threat) and values, rather than on Iraq and the…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…émon and ignore the news.’” What news is she talking about? The murders of Sterling and Castile and the Dallas police officers. She is referring to the news of death. But in a matter of days Pokemon Go has changed our relationship with death. This is new territory. For years now we have been able to escape our physical spaces with our phones. But Pokémon Go doesn’t just allow us to avoid a “real” place in favor of a “virtual” one. It has instead t…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…suffering and privation. We need to mobilize now, and this call is the first step. This healthcare bill is not a Republican versus Democrat issue. The attack on poor and vulnerable children, families and seniors is an issue of morals — right versus wrong. We cannot stand idly by as extremists in Congress and the administration further enrich the wealthiest few at the expense of the sick, the poor and working people. Together we can awaken our nat…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…cannot be let loose. The religious impulse is suspect, and many, many times over if it is Muslim. My religiosity can’t be a wild horse, galloping for joy around the island. Religiosity must be domesticated in the city for it to be kept safe, and so it can be performed as safe. * * * Read Shabana Mir’s poem, “Immigrant Nostalgia” here….