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Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

By John Stoehr

…was jubilation. Turns out good things happen when good things happen. Most Americans say finding Chauvin guilty was the right thing to do. The Republicans’ influence over respectable white people—again, that globular middle of American politics—was only as strong as the willingness of respectable white people to accept, or at least overlook for personal financial gain, the Republicans’ lies. Trump, in accusing Joe Biden and the Democrats of steali…

Sacred&Profane: From Bono to the Jedi Police—Who Needs God?

By Gary Laderman

…f-reported Jedi claimed the religion for their own amusement, or to poke fun at the government.” * * * Pre-order your copy of Gary Laderman’s new book Sacred Matters (The New Press, May, 2009), here….

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…n community in relationship to God and all of creation. But, as the buzz throughout the aftermath of the Episcopal Church’s triennial spiritual sausage-making festival makes clear, it’s a religion commentator’s dream. More importantly, it gives all of us a ringside seat at what may be the end of American liberal Christianity or its sputtering new beginning. I suspect that the Presiding Bishop, as some of her defenders have done over the weekend, m…

The “Gay” Princess Di Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of The Bible to be called ‘The Princess Diana Bible’. Revision Studios in New Mexico, USA will fund the new translation of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight. Mitchell also hopes to adapt the book for a two-part mini-series, ‘The Gay Old Testament’ and ‘The Gay New Testament’. “There are many different versions of the Bible, I don’t see why we can’t have one,” said Mitchell. Aside from a little problem figuring out…

Biden’s New ‘Restore the Soul of a Nation’ Ad Aimed at Black Voters Wary of the Frontrunner’s Dodgy History

By Peter Laarman

…ardly an aberrant thing in our national experience. Charles King’s helpful new history reminds us that as recently as a century ago American elites all agreed that this is a “white man’s country.” Should it surprise anyone that non-elite whites never got the academy’s memo announcing that all of this hierarchical thinking is totally bogus? 3. Given that he has such a very long record in public life (a history that includes his association with seg…

The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…the National Association of Manufacturers to the cause and creating brand new ones like the American Liberty League. But Americans dismissed their naked paeans to capitalism as just business looking out for its own self-interest. (Democratic leader Jim Farley famously joked that they ought to call the American Liberty League “the American Cellophane League” because it was a DuPont product that you could see right through.) Realizing that the dire…

Israel’s New President and Intolerant Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…ates almost 900 congregations representing over a million and a half North American Jews. Jacobs goes on to enumerate the ways Reform Jews love and are dedicated to Israel — evidence that in the face of escalting intolerant orthodoxy non-Orthodox American Jewish organizations feel they must prove that love in order to be critical of said escalating intolerant orthodoxy. Before Rivlin was elected, Emily Hauser wrote that his views are commonplace i…

Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

By Robert M. Geraci

…d inaugurate new religious visions. Of the book’s Reformation context, the New York Review of Books’ Marina Warner noted that: [T]he new focus on reading the Bible led to a resurgence of interest in stories of direct divine intervention, and Protestant Europe in the sixteenth century saw a “boom” in compendia of miracles… The Monster Manual is likewise a product of its time, an expression of the secular age. One of its accompanying texts, Deities…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion? We have reported on efforts by anti-gay Ugandan lawmakers to draft a new bill to replace the Anti-Homosexuality Act that was thrown out by courts based on a procedural issue. Now a lawmaker on the committee drafting the new bill says it is ready and to pass to that the entire country can “celebrate it as a Christmas gift.” As Reuters reports, [President Yoweri] Museveni is walking a political tightrope with regard to the new antihomosexualit…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…epresents… “They represent a fierce, unapologetic, in-your-face assault on American history, American economics, American politics,” Magida said. “I don’t think this the time for that political theater.” In part, Magida attributes this changing culture to President Obama. “Barack showed the United States is not as viciously racist of a nation, as determinedly racist as the Nation has portrayed us. I’m not a white, blue-eyed devil; the tens of mill…