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Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…alse—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ing Mike Pence. But one difference between the gatherings in Kissimmee and Dallas has to do with the certainty of payoffs. Whether the tax cuts, budget cuts, and non-regulation of markets that are the reliable outcome of Republican politics will work to the benefit of the diverse crowd that gathered in Kissimmee is doubtful. That they will serve the interests of the extravagantly rich attendees of the Ziklag Group gathering, on the other hand, is…

Texas Pastor: Christians Claiming “Religious Persecution” Are Actually Just “Selfish”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…tor at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, did in his Monday column for the Dallas Morning News. Despite the conservative and legal hand-wringing, it’s not actually hard to tell the difference between “religious persecution and selfishness,” he writes. He asks readers (particularly Christians who may be quick to side with “religious” business-owners who don’t want to serve LGBTQ people) to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. It’s a simple, classic…

#BlackLivesMatterStill: We Cannot Let Anyone Else Define Our Movement

By Wil Gafney

…night. Five police officers serving under the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police were murdered. Two civilians and seven more police officers were wounded. The officers were assassinated because they were police officers, because they were police officers serving at a #BlackLivesMatter protest, which was itself protesting the non-judicial police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. According to police sources,…

The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Humans

By Amina Wadud

…ill go to Mina, etc. There is still no address for the hotels, but a local phone number. There is also information about processing customs at Jeddah, meeting the tour guide, and information that says “the group” will proceed to Makkah—which means the first will have to wait for the last person, which is the beginning of feeling like you are a group. They even include suggestions to “get to know” your fellow travelers. I still had no idea what wer…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader alongside one of the most hate-filled religious figures in contemporary memory. But here it is, a connect-the-dots portrait of a powerfully complicated American religious landscape, circa 2014. Vincent Gordon Harding Historian and theologian Vincent Gordon H…

“I Chose Esther”: Elizabeth Smart Testifies

By Joanna Brooks

…Smart’s unflinching forward march to well-being, including her mission in Paris—where I wish her many, many delicious pastries and very little door-to-door tracting—sets a powerful example that LDS women who survive sexual violence have no reason to be ashamed of themselves. At one point in the trial, Smart testified that Mitchell had forced her to relinquish her name and instead named her Shear-Jashub, from the book of Isaiah. She was able, for…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…r “Ripple” conversation, and today, there are hundreds of Dead songs on my phone and dozens of live recordings in playlists, even a nod when I see a Deadhead sticker on a car. I am a relapsed Catholic, and thanks to my friend, I am also a repentant Deadhead. Dear Jesus, let me confess: I even wear Birkenstocks. Shannon. Deadshow, Deadhead. Dominquez Hills, 1990. Photo by ChasM3/https://www.flickr.com/photos/chasm3/ “Sugar Magnolia,” however, still…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…tanbul and London and Amsterdam. One night, I was returning to my hotel in Paris at two in the morning. I saw the Eiffel tower from the backseat of a Parisian cab and I wept with joy to have landed in such a strange and unexpected place. My new partner often said of my years as a fundamentalist, “Those people stole your youth.” He was bitter at my loss, but that night in the cab, I only felt wonder. Joy. Overwhelmed to still have so much still bef…