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To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ssor Paul Butler states, “the flames that engulfed Watts in 1965, Newark in 1967, Miami in 1980, Los Angeles in 1992, Ferguson in 2015 and Minneapolis in 2020 were in response to police violence against Blacks.” These forms of unrest reveal the persistence of the racial contract as well as challenges to its legitimacy—even in the midst of a pandemic. Black feminist and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s definition of racism as the “state-sanctione…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…n years coming to terms with the experience of converting to Catholicism at 18, and that process caused me to read a lot of dead writers. In the course of reading them through the lens of my own experience, it became clear that the ideas of these writers were products of experience—and anguish and struggle—as well as of abstract thought. Most histories of theistic proofs today, however, leave out the experience and focus only on the abstraction. I…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…respect in my own most intimate community?” The group went public on March 17, 2013, the anniversary of the founding of the Relief Society, with a website featuring profiles of Latter-day Saints who support female ordination. Those profiles allow women to “use our own identities as a tool is a way to assert radical self-respect and a way to claim the narrative as our own. “What happened to women in the past is that the leadership cast them as out…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f Paul, like 1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians, and near the end of chapter 15 [in 1 Corinthians] he speaks as if this might happen while he is still alive. One big difference is he thought it was very, very soon from his point in time. Also, there is no reference to what Christians in our time refer to as ‘The Rapture,’ the notion that seven years before the second coming of Jesus, true-believing Christians will be taken up into heaven to be spar…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t we do to deliberate about such big problems. The line was offered in the spirit of can-do American industriousness, the notion that when we put our minds to a thing, we achieve it beyond the wildest expectations of a witnessing world. Such a line is neither Niebuhrian, nor necessarily very realistic. The vast majority of the President’s attention in this speech was focused on the economy, for obvious reasons. And he was trying to get back on mes…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…come together when saving a life is at stake. Dr. Fred Rosner agrees. In a 1999 journal article speculating on the eventuality of this technology, the Assistant Dean and Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine wrote that, “…Judaism will look with favor upon this procedure to prolong or save the life of a human being who is ill or dying from organ failure. Although Jewish law forbids Jews to raise or eat pigs, no such prohibit…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…gions. How did Muslims respond to abolition, which mostly took place in the 19thcentury—as it did here in the U.S.? Interestingly, Mattson cited two objections to abolition. Traditionalists were not against the idea of blanket manumission per se, but they either argued that the Shari’ah offered no mechanism to effect such a decision, or that “our slavery is not like American slavery”—a fascinating indication of the interconnectedness of the world—…

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

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…only tether between us? And my scripture, handy-dandy rolodex of the Holy Spirit, flips up this verse: What does the believer have in common with the unbeliever? Light cannot be yoked with darkness. I know. I know. I’d say I’m the devil’s advocate, but I’m afraid you’d take me seriously. Look—you’re drawing the boundaries between us again. Let me ask for a huge favor: can those borders at least consist of a dashed line, one with some space betwee…

Wilma Mankiller: On the Passing of a Legendary Leader

By Johnny P. Flynn

…of Indian Affairs. She was elected Principal Chief in her own right in both 1987 and 1991, in a landslide election where she garnered 83% of the vote. Her election and tenure as an elected official of the Cherokee was not without controversy. During her early campaigns she received death threats and had her tires slashed, but she prevailed. And I recall that her elections electrified women and girls throughout Indian Country, inspiring them with t…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…rning: this book should have come with a Parental Advisory sticker affixed! 1. Barbara Diane Savage, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion, Belknap Press, November, 2008 Many have contested the uncritical use of the term “black church.” And others have even identified the religious, theological and political plurality that causes many contemporary scholars to feel guilty every time we employ this heuristic shorthand. But I ha…