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Confronting “Dangerous Memory,” Heeding the Power of the Moral Imagination

By Charlene Sinclair

…other too much from the head and not enough from the heart, too much from policy particulars and not enough from the depth and despair of lived experience. Rev. Barber breaks that unhelpful mold. He deeply understands what too few people do: There is power in the moral imagination. There is power in speaking directly to the heart and to the moral center. He understands that when the heart is fully engaged and awakened, the head and feet will foll…

Gingrich’s Anti-Secularism Greatest Hits

By Sarah Posner

…ta, first published in 2006, became the basis for his speeches at Pastors’ Policy Briefings, the purpose of which were to mobilize “pastors and pews to restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage.” It was at these meetings that the idea for Gingrich’s organization Renewing American Leadership was hatched. When Barton, who serves on ReAL’s board, appeared on Glenn Beck’s program last year, the organization boasted that “David’s appearance build…

It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Constitution. The idea that a centralized government could impose economic policy on all of the former colonies seemed like a dangerously centralized power to many former revolutionaries. This “federalist” Constitution seemed to many of them simply too close to the kind of domineering royalism they had just waged war against. Moreover, they sensed that the new centralized government, so proposed, might be expected to raise taxes immediately, given…

10 Media Rules for Effective Theology

By Cynthia B. Astle

…iticus from Greek. However, theologians who would like to influence public policy and social change will find us laypeople a bountiful resource as well as an audience. We can tell you what it’s like to sit up all night with an ailing, aged parent and still have to go to work the next day because there’s no compassionate family leave policy. We can tell you what it’s like to take home-cooked food to an AIDS hospice, and dine with dying people who h…

Right Wing Catholic Non-Profit Treads the Line of Legality and Ethics

By Kate Childs Graham

…cVote.com. CatholicVote.com is a project of the Fidelis Center for Law and Policy, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity that focuses on the issues of abortion and marriage. Intrigued, I clicked the link and this is what I saw. I was outraged by many parts of this false representation of my faith, though as a recently married lesbian woman, one clip felt particularly devastating. The folks at CatholicVote.com obviously forgot the Catechism’s call t…

War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism

By Noah Berlatsky

…ting that he was a “towering intellect…[who] helped shape American foreign policy”—all of which is, in a manner of speaking, true. They go on to note that the man who became “the first Jewish Secretary of State…was unapologetic about his heritage and his embrace of the importance of American global power and democratic values.” As the above quote suggests, the ADL’s enthusiastic whitewashing of Kissinger’s legacy is linked to his ethnicity. The AD…

Sexist, Homophobic Representatives of “The Black Church” Just Want to Make Black America Great Again

By Anita Little

…beyond making appearances at black churches into actually creating a black policy agenda is fair. Then the letter takes a hard right turn and starts tumbling precipitously downhill. It becomes obvious that expressed concerns about poverty and violence are just a vehicle for the group’s true aims: taking away rights from groups differently marginalized from themselves. The clergy who have signed on to the letter criticize Clinton for comments she m…

“Persecuted” Christians in China

By Kathryn Joyce

…or abortion and population politics, where the abuses of China’s one-child policy are put to full use by anticontraception activists such as Steve Mosher of the Population Research Institute—a self-described “China watcher” who has written nonfiction books and thrillers about China’s impending world takeover—to equate forced or coercive sterilizations and abortions in some developing nations with all family planning efforts worldwide, and thereby…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ce reports that David Gibbs III, a “conservative Christian lawyer from the United States who has suggested that legalizing gay marriage would lead to a catalogue of social ills will be one of three guest speakers headlining a religious rally in Cayman” on September 11. Organizers say the gathering, “The Future is Now: Preserving Values for a Better Tomorrow,” will promote “a biblical perspective of family.” David Gibbs III, who takes an anti-gay s…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…triumphant solipsist, including the success of confessional talk shows, competitive reality programming, and the discovery that celebrities are “just like US!” Even within this din of come-to-Jesus moments, McCain’s story is discordant, failing to supply some of the basic ingredients for a ritual confession of faith. It includes no mention of God (or Christ) as an actor in his life or even in that dirt-drawn moment. There are no searching first-pe…