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Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…despite their inability to limit the bill’s direct relief to white working-class domestic automobile-driving Red Man chewers. You can’t win ’em all, sometimes you gotta help those big city folks too, you know. As deep as the scar of racism runs in American society, though, there’s something even deeper at work here. Stoehr is right to point out the economic hierarchicalism that pervades this attitude. Somewhere along the way, Republicans went from…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…onomy. That old saw is false in at least two ways. Members of the investor class wouldn’t have been the only real “winners” throughout the past decade were it not for the increased financialization of the real economy; in addition, financial markets tend to predict with reasonable accuracy the shape of the real economy of the future. For example, despite some ongoing volatility, Nasdaq shares remain strong in relation to other indexes because it’s…

Toward a Richer Ethical Discourse in Trumplandia: A Response to Harper’s “Trump: A Resister’s Guide”

By Peter Laarman

…a white working class that “increasingly comes to resemble the black underclass in indices of social disorganization.” Tang does not say, but I will say, that a politics rooted in the God-given dignity and equality of each person can and should supplant a toxic protest politics rooted in white nationalism. Religion can function as a mediating force, and if we weren’t so damned amnesiac in this country we would be able to recall examples of that f…

RDPulpit: Did Progressive Christianity Dump its Savior in Brad Braxton?

By Ronald B. Neal

…ogressive Christians. This dilemma, which is spelled out in terms of race, class, and culture, is far from new, having plagued the progressive Christian tradition since its emergence in the early 19th century. From abolitionism to liberation theology, an uneasy relationship has existed between literate and so-called enlightened Christians and people of color; especially people of color who are in one way or another connected to or influenced by po…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…ron, to the poet Luci Shaw and even Bono of U2 — evangelicalism’s creative class is loaded with Anglicans. Parts of Searching for Sunday could have been lifted from the works of Thomas Howard. While Christ the Tiger: A Postscript to Dogma (1967) chronicles Howard’s journey from Philadelphia fundamentalism to literary Christianity (under the tutelage of C.S. Lewis enthusiast Clyde S. Kilby), Evangelical is Not Enough (1984) recounts his discovery o…

Vive La Liberté

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…g of far greater moment: namely, the as-yet unresolved linkage of race and class—and violence—in contemporary US society. Similarly, the case of Alexi Grigoropoulos has come to symbolize the plight of a curious and unsung “generation,” constituted by young people roughly between the ages of 15 and 25. In Greece itself, they are known as the “Generation of 700,” referring to the unliveable seven hundred euro-a-month minimum wage. In Spain, a countr…

How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…) have been campaigning to shift the focus from the Constitution in civics class to the Declaration of Independence. (In another arena, today’s Mount Vernon Statement, released by conservative and religious right figures, maintains “we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”) The reason is pretty clear. The Declara…

Is Tax Evasion a Christian Value?

By Lauri Lebo

…d she was correct and given a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. This continued on for a while, each boy or girl getting candy for their “correct” answers, as their parents smiled proudly at them. The man leading the class told the kids that they were very smart, but they had to remember their lessons. Because someday, you’re going to be in science class, he said, and “your teacher’s going to lie to you.”…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…r subhuman class. The trauma of historically being relegated to a subhuman class can manifest itself through 14 generations. No matter how callous we become to our individual trauma, our grandparents’ and our parents’ trauma (especially) can continue to impact us in profound ways unless we take steps to heal. There is a tender spot on every callous. Therapy, art, healthcare—those are possible salves to these tender spots. But what do you do when n…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…elationship with the military government. It was fairly common among upper class Argentine families to have one son who was a general and one who was a bishop or cardinal, so the lines were thin between church and state.* The Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina at the time, Archbishop Pio Laghi, was rumored to play tennis with the generals who ruled the country, including Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera of the junta. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (wom…