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We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…lonialism, and genocide against Israel’s enemies. Warrior was also among a number of scholars who emphasized that African Americans were not the only Americans to identify with the Israelites. White European settlers had also adopted the Israelite Exodus narrative as they understood themselves as God’s chosen people who had a right to claim their promised land of America at the costly expense of the original inhabitants. Based on the Christian wit…

What Passover Taught Me About Being Black

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…es (albeit a white one) and the Hebrews as they dueled with Ramses and the Egyptians. But then something unexpected happened, I converted to rabbinic Judaism under the guidance of an African-American rabbi and within the context of a primarily African-American congregation. Observing the Passover seder communally with my congregation was exciting. As time progressed, however, Passover became further removed from my annual celebration of freedom fr…

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…faith has something to answer for in that it could bear such fruit in such numbers. That some evangelicals now wish to separate themselves from what their faith tradition has devolved into is well and good, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the ways that same tradition fostered the very problems to which critics now object. Second, properly speaking the problem isn’t heresy, it’s idolatry. Heresy has to do with ideas contrary to the received tr…

The Facts About ‘Sharia’ May Surprise You

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…requirement under shariah) than do Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs. In Egypt, hundreds of Muslims formed human shields to protect Christians and Christian churches (a shariah requirement) during Christmastime. In the US, when a Jewish cemetery was defaced, Muslims raised $80,000 in the first twenty-four hours to help with repairs. That’s because shariah requires the defense of synagogues. It’s in all our interests to stop mindlessly buying int…

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

By Ed Simon

…Pole; under the Mediterranean near Crete; in Sweden, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt.” What Paradise Lust makes clear is that the rhetorical power of words like “Eden” far transcends the actuality of any one place. Go to top Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church Kaya Oakes Counterpoint 2012 Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church (2012) by Kaya Oakes – Few religious phenomena of the last decade have been…

New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…ng of the Catholic Church. The pope — who recently returned from a trip to Egypt to meet with Muslim leaders and others — is more hopeful in his take on Muslim-Christian relations. Pope Francis frequently highlights examples of Muslim-Christian coexistence, embraces Muslim refugees, and speaks of similarities across the faith traditions. But, among many Catholics in the United States, Bannon’s view of a Muslim-Christian clash is more popular than…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…ust one bloody thing? Erasing all substantive distinctions between ancient Egypt (before there were even Jews!) and modern-day Iraq? Historically, there’s something obscene about it, and yet this is viewed as a normative position: Even before there were Jews, people hated the Jews. Even Jon Lovitz’s Hanukkah Harry character, which had its Saturday Night Live debut in 1989, reflects this. When he mistakenly climbs down the chimney of a non-Jew’s ho…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…he Theotokos (“God-bearer”). Some Christians in places like Syria, Persia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Arabian peninsula resisted these doctrines. In these regions, there were two main theological camps—the Monophysites, who spoke of Christ as having “one nature of the incarnate Word” (Logos), and the Nestorians who accepted that Christ had two harmonious natures but refused to attribute human sufferings to the divine nature. They also called Mary th…

If Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus

By Jill Marshall

…ry. There is a legend that 72 translators produced the Greek Septuagint in Egypt in the third century BCE, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t multiple Greek versions floating around during John and Paul’s time in the first century CE. Another possibility is that John and Paul may have been working from memory rather than a printed text in front of them. Ancient Mediterranean culture was a much more oral culture than we experience today. Book…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…t just perpetuate xenophobic evangelical culture. He rarely brought up his Egyptian heritage or the fact that he spoke Arabic, and he distanced himself from Egypt’s Muslim-majority population by going “out of my way to make sure people knew I was a Christian.” George acknowledges that he has been “complicit in every aspect of the (white evangelical) system.” But this new administration has changed everything for George and evangelicals of color ac…