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Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…(correctly) at the uncertainty consuming me. Similar messages poured in by phone, email and social media throughout the day. It was as if someone in my family had died and people felt compelled to offer me condolences. The reality of living in a country in which the most blatant expressions of Islamophobia and other forms of hate are normalized does worry me. Even as Trump flip-flops on his promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims ente…

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

By Emma Cieslik

…or in 2023 that “people with homosexual tendencies are children of God,” a number of LGBTQ Catholics and advocates, myself included, got excited for a day or two—maybe even called our parents (if the Church hasn’t driven a wedge between them and us). But then the news cycle passes and, with each expression of anti-LGBTQ Catholic doctrine on diocesan and global levels, these small victories are tarnished with sadness and frustration. This is not to…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…nse to news reports on the Vatican document. CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter and others reported on the new teaching, and in the comments sections of these pieces, there was a great deal of outrage from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Some complained that the Church just wanted more money and that the Church was looking for an angle to get people to pay up for pricey lots in Catholic cemeteries. Iris…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…or celebrity status. The Orlando nightclub shooter reportedly checked his phone for news about the shooting during the actual event; the man who murdered hostages at the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store in Paris last year filmed the attack on a GoPro camera (in that light, the company’s slogan, Be a HERO, seems chilling). It would be wrong to ignore these shooters—their acts have enormous consequences—but you feel complicit, somehow, when you pa…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

…women and LGBTQ persons” was incongruous with the seminary’s values. In a phone interview, Calvo, who sits on the board of PTS’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Supporters, said that “there was a lot of anger, a lot of disappointment among women and LGBT students and faculty.” “I’m training in ministry because I believe that regardless of your theological position you are worthy of dignity. However, that doesn’t mean your exclusionary values…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…that we don’t have abortion sanctuaries, for instance, like California or New York. That’s what they want. Following the lead of Florida Republicans, some might hold off for the moment on attempts to impose these laws until they believe the public outcry has subsided. In fact, a bipartisan bill to protect IVF was passed overwhelmingly by the Alabama legislature, though it’s just a temporary measure. But any notion that the GOP is broadly supporti…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…gence apps” including As One America, which contains the name, address and phone number of Christian neighbors “who are not showing up to vote or who are not registered.” He then showed a map with big red arrows pointing to precincts “within striking distance” from Vida Church to the precincts that are “where the devil’s got a stronghold that God wants to break up.” The app was developed by Superfeed Technologies, which has also designed apps for…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…-Semitism lurks around the Trump campaign, and every week seems to bring a new not-necessarily-a-scandal-but-it-sure-sounds-fishy kind of incident. Among other things, the candidate has tweeted an anti-Semitic image, made a comment to Republican Jews about their penchant for business, repeatedly declined to disavow David Duke, and, most recently, hired a media executive whose website was recently described by a former employee as “a cesspool of th…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…pression. In other words, the standards that determine what belongs on the news (so-called “news values”) are deeply rooted in oppressive ideologies—regional biases, financial capital, racism, classism, sexism, and more—which constantly rank whose lives (and deaths) are more valuable, more “newsworthy,” more profitable for mass distribution. Comparing the newsworthiness of our suffering to that of others is the precise method by which the news dev…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…oward the end of the lunch break on Monday during Trump’s ongoing Trial in New York, while the AP notes that it appears to have been created by a member of a Trump-affiliated “meme team.” But in the end, it doesn’t really matter whether it was Trump himself, a staffer, or even a Trump-adjacent unhinged MAGA meme team. The fact that a staffer could have that easily overlooked—or worse, recognized and deemed acceptable—such obvious connotations to N…