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These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e companies in most states were barred from treating transgender patients any differently than cisgender (non-trans) patients, and HHS formalized a rule that allowed transgender people to file discrimination lawsuits if they were turned away or mistreated by a healthcare provider. But what about the millions of Americans who aren’t transgender? Well, any of those citizens who have a uterus or plan to make their own decisions about when or if they…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…e with religious organizations. DuBois has his admirers, to be sure. For many of them, his daily emailed devotionals to the president—which Obama took pains to highlight yesterday—are frequently cited as evidence not only of the president’s piety but also to counter conservative claims that the White House is somehow hostile to religion, or insufficiently committed to the country’s “Christian heritage.” While the president is undoubtedly entitled…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…for their tough talk. The narrative of Jeremiah 18 ends abruptly without any hint of that “double destruction.” As for Kendrick, the “until” of his verse tells us everything we need to know, …until your son jump into your arms Cut on the engine, then sped off in the rain I’m gone. Truly, as Brueggemann tells it, “the vocation of a prophet is [a] conflicted way to live.” We get some sense of this conflictedness when, despite his and his communitie…

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…to take key positions in education, business, government, and the media around the world,” the statement read. The group pledged not to be cowed by critics that “believe homosexuality is normal and useful, especially journalists in Europe and America, many of whom are themselves homosexual or their active supporters.” Well. Yes. Journalists are clearly all homosexuals. In any case, Scott Lively is intent on global reach, and is traveling to Uganda…

Why Notre Dame’s Contraception Flip-Flop Undercuts Bishops’ Religious Freedom Claims

By Patricia Miller

…ly allows any non-profit or business entity to opt out of the mandate for any religious or moral objection they cared to cook up without any mechanism in place to ensure that women in the plans receive contraception. Just days later, Notre Dame University announced that it would end contraceptive coverage for students and employees as soon as possible—in January for employees and next summer for students. It wasn’t a surprising move. Despite its r…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…me in the SPR threw themselves behind a new contraption called the “psycho-phone” through which the inventors claimed to be hearing the voices of angels. The psychophone no doubt sounds absurd, but I can’t say that it sounds much more far-fetched than a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Both demonstrate the enduring cultural impulse toward techno-theologizing. However much neuroscientists might want to forswear an interest in the metaphysics of th…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…property). In recent years, however, the flag has been claimed by those denying the results of the 2020 election, signaling their distress at what they assumed was the overthrow of the nation’s order and became synonymous with the belief that the election had been stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. And this is why timing is so important: the flag was flown upside down at Alito’s home for days—days—even after a violent mob stormed the Capitol,…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…d one card only to play in this campaign: “No Surrender.” It may not make any logical sense. If all of the voters who oppose the war vote against the pro-war candidate, he’ll be slaughtered. But McCain and his strategists know what all of the Times’ liberal pundits, and so many other liberals, so easily forget: It’s not about logic or policies. It’s about feelings. The simplistic catch phrase “No Surrender” taps into a huge reservoir of feeling de…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…in the “real” physical environment of the player, as mediated through the phone’s camera. As one player told a reporter: “This is full on escapism, where I’m like ‘let me just go catch some Pokémon and ignore the news.’” What news is she talking about? The murders of Sterling and Castile and the Dallas police officers. She is referring to the news of death. But in a matter of days Pokemon Go has changed our relationship with death. This is new te…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…ver the next few years. It’s going to be much harder work than letters and phone calls to Congress, protests, or meetings with like-minded friends. You can point to the successes of Rev. Barber’s “fusion politics” in North Carolina, but the fact remains that the state GOP passed almost all of their legislative agenda, and has nearly hobbled the incoming Democratic Governor. Ditto, unfortunately, the protest movement that sprang up everywhere after…