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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…is the failure when we consider these fascists the other. As a writer, I always start with the body. Remember the body. I also always say that I’ve never had an original thought in my life and I never will. And what a blessing! Because it means anything I’m thinking someone else is too. I’m never alone! If I ever have an inappropriate sexual thought, everybody else has too. That includes evangelicals, right? And Trump gave them license. He gave th…

Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?

By Eric Reitan

…aith can transform one’s life. The important question is whether there’s a way of being religious, a way of living one’s life as if there were a transcendent good beyond the empirical world, that actually bears rich fruits. If your Christian faith is nothing more than belief that “the Inventor of the laws of physics… got himself born, then deliberately had himself tortured and executed because he couldn’t think of a better way to forgive the theft…

The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

By Murali Balaji

…ay? Can we bring in secular humanists, atheists, agnostics in an authentic way? The answer has never been about taking religion out. It is always about how we can bring it in because that’s reality, that’s the reality of our lives and in our country. What do you see as the reason we’ve become so regressive when it comes to our racial and religious politics? It seems like we were coming to a moment where there were some opportunities to move away f…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…” “People always leaving just as other folks arrive.” The angels laid her away. —Josh Ritter, “Folk Bloodbath” “People always leaving just as other folks arrive.” That is the line that suddenly came to mind when I learned that Father Matthew Kelty left this world peacefully at noon on Friday last. This is a great loss to those of us newly, and not-so-newly, arrived, and I wanted to try to explain why I think this is so. This remarkable monk spent…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…eral thanksgiving was proclaimed in the wake of this deadly stroke); and always—always—taking possession of the land and displacing Native peoples who had no concept of private land ownership according to English law. If you are looking for Original Sin, here is where to look. The accurate term for that sin is settler colonialism. How it works is that white people show up and begin at once to chart, mark, divide, sell, enclose, and defend their pr…

A Room Without Rants

By Andrew Pessin

…o believe in God, but to believe in God in the strongest and most coherent way he or she can – which requires investigating, in a genuinely open-minded and frequently critical way, the strongest and most coherent versions of theism available. By a “reasonable atheist” I mean someone who believes that God does not exist but who is open to exploring that belief with all the normal tools of knowledge acquisition, including again, most importantly, re…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…interested in religion, my key message is that the AIDS crisis changed the way American Christians talked about sexuality. Sex was by no means a new topic for Christians, but the AIDS crisis brought discussion of gay sex and of various sexual practices, like oral and anal sex, into virtually every household in the country. In fact, Reagan’s conservative aide Gary Bauer complained about just this! In the late 1980s, he trashed the (evangelical) Sur…

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…cribes whose stories get told in public and whose do not. Discourse is the way we define reality. And those stories, perspectives, and ways of being that fall outside of the constructed “norm” are subjugated to the dominant discourse. Narratives that challenge the norm are silenced. The dominant heterosexist discourse in our society is one seeking to define reality solely from the perspective of heterosexual experience and to subjugate the narrati…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…among white voters, but had a tough time attracting blacks and Hispanics away from Clinton. Create a way to let the people Barber represent feel their issues are being taken seriously, and you have a very durable coalition in the offing. To shorthand things a bit, but find the common ground between Raleigh-Durham or Greensboro and Portland, Oregon, and you’ve got political dynamite. Going down this road would force Sanders (or more realistically,…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…how to give terminal diagnoses. Our social systems have shifted in such a way that women, those who have traditionally cared for their elders, are either far away or lack the time and resources to do so. Even after the Affordable Care Act, 30 million Americans still lack health care coverage—and therefore have limited or no medical care, even preventative. Not to mention the millions of undocumented people in the country! Those who can afford to…