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Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…ot necessarily knowing what my position was, and through the course of the class I watched a couple of films that profoundly shaped my thinking. One of them was a film that showed a lot of footage of Vietnam War victims and the effects of Agent Orange and napalm; the other one was a film about Hiroshima and what happened after we dropped nuclear bombs. And when I watched those films, it was clear to me that this is not a morally acceptable way to…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…ular people to remain locked in their “ivory tower” abstractions. A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice Anthony Pinn & Brad Braxton Beacon Press July, 2023 PINN: I agree. There are many issues that must be addressed, and we need a language of life—a grammar of compassion—robust enough to harness justice work. But I don’t think we find this in scripture. We need source material…

Pew: Atheists and Agnostics Best Informed on Religion

By Lauri Lebo

…respondents, asked whether public school teachers are permitted to lead a class in prayer, correctly answered no. But fewer than one of four knew that a public school teacher is permitted “to read from the Bible as an example of literature.” And only about one third knew that a public school teacher is permitted to offer a class comparing the world’s religions. The survey’s authors concluded that there was “widespread confusion” about “the line b…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…er to understand the broadness of American fascism? Is it Whiteness? Is it class? Is it gender? Misogyny? Is it the exhaustion of the pandemic? Is it screens? Is it climate grief? Yes, absolutely. The common denominator is grief, unprocessed loss—whether it’s the loss of privilege attendant to Whiteness, whether it’s real economic loss (which is there), or whether it’s the loss of a belief in the future. Whether, like Ashli Babbitt, it’s the crush…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…lencamp’s small-town, but both had little hope of uniting audiences across class lines in the way that Springsteen does. (People don’t show up for Mellencamp and scream out demands for “Small Town,” the way they congregate en masse at Madison Square Garden for Springsteen and demand “Hiding in the Backstreets.”) And now, for No Better Than This, Mellencamp is following Springsteen and numerous others, in moving into the realm of roots music, or Am…

Nobel Laureates Tell Gov. Jindal to Repeal Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…c Freedom” bills, which pave the way for sneaking creationism into science class. While lawmakers have denied the law has anything to do with inserting creationism into science class, I’ve written about how members of Louisiana school boards interpret the law here. Whether lawmakers will heed a bunch of bona fide experts in their fields remains to be seen, but their statement certainly adds a lot of weight to Kopplin’s argument that LSEA is a “job…

A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?

By Jay Michaelson

…, are at real risk. Sexual diversity is not an American issue, or a middle-class one, or a white one. Sexual and gender minorities are at risk everywhere—in fact, especially when they aren’t white, middle-class Americans. Third, and relatedly, LGBT equality is a (I won’t say the) defining civil rights issue of our time. This is not because LGBT people are at more risk than, say, undocumented immigrants, or that our struggle for equality is more co…

“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning

By Patricia Miller

…ctions on abortion that left the procedure available in practice to middle-class and upper-middle-class women, while cutting off access for poorer and younger women for whom logistical and financial hurdles were most salient. But as a new study makes clear, these restrictions do little to actually protect fetal life. A study of prototypical waiting period laws that require a woman to make two visits to an abortion clinic 72 hours apart found that,…

Are Social Issues Non-Issues?

By Jay Michaelson

…y debatable quality, shot through with assumptions about gender, race, and class, but nonetheless the most important factor for those muddle-headed moderates we refer to as undecided. Romney was The Man out there tonight, in all those gendered, racial, and class-bound ways. Inchoate as it was, he did in fact articulate a clear, moral vision: where men like him are in charge, free enterprise reigns, and those who are weak deserve the suffering they…

Response to Nicholas Kristof on Religion and Women

By Mary E. Hunt

…re nuanced understandings of particular women of different racial, ethnic, class, national, age, and sexual backgrounds. I would have preferred to see this twenty-first century approach reflected in Mr. Kristof’s article. This does not change the fundamental insight that Kristof, Jimmy Carter, and the Elders brought together by Nelson Mandela are promoting, namely that the major world religions have been complicit in the oppression of women and gi…