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Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith

…tself, demands that Christians feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked. (She might have pointed out that this is the only place in the New Testament that describes the requirements for salvation, but oh well, next time.) Warren only mentions values once and morals not at all, much less #reclaimingChristianity, #moralrevolution, or whatever other silly focus-grouped hashtag is going around these days. That…

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The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

…om, achieved via public justice and community thriving, may finally make a welcome appearance in this country. But for that to happen, the racialized and masculinized notions of what freedom means will need to recede—and the whole vile edifice of our herrenvolk democracy will need to be exposed for what it is. Romantics are free to cling to Shelley’s belief that poets are our unacknowledged legislators. Realists these days will prefer to take thei…

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Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

…decision.” Trump is the barbarian-king leading white evangelicals in their war against all those they deem God’s enemies. For evangelicals, his authoritarian rhetoric is an asset; his cruelty is a mark of determination; his unwillingness to compromise is a welcome change from “softer” evangelical politicians. The question we should be asking is not when white evangelicals will finally have had enough. It’s how the rest of us are going to stop a co…

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Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

…to you” (Mt. 7:12), we maintain our longstanding commitment to support and welcome refugees and immigrants, and to stand with those who live in our midst without documentation. We reaffirm that like all people LGBT persons are entitled to full civil rights and protection under the law. We reaffirm and renew the principles of inclusion and the protection of the civil rights of all persons with disabilities. We commit to the honor and dignity of wom…

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Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

…ledge where Baumgartner realized his own finitude.” His remarks come as a welcome contrast to the hubris of so many technology elites. Yet in the Stratos mission, as is too often the case, such humility was an unforeseen byproduct of personal and technical bravado. Rather than an afterthought, such humility should be present in all stages of development. When it comes to questions of design, implementation, regulation, and use, prudence is the na…

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Let Gay People Rehab Marriage

…population of what is essential to “human happiness and flourishing.” It would seem to me that if Mohler and others value marriage as much as they say they do, they would welcome the effort of any group of people who want to revere that institution and rebuild it to its former greatness….

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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

…ing a place where people can connect and be in a community where they feel welcome and as safe as possible in a public event, I think that’s really important, and it’s missing in a lot of people’s lives. It’s sort of a magical moment where people just are connecting and seeing each other, when they break it down, and they’re not trying to be a big-time performer, putting on a big show. It’s just, “Hey, we’re here. Here’s the story of what happened…

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Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

…an and gay people should be killed rather than jailed Malawi’s bishops are promoting misinformation when they claim first that homosexuality is “alien” to Malawians and second that foreign aid is being used to pressure donor nations to adopt LGBT rights. Misinformation is problematic, but doubly so when used to endorse, implicitly as well as explicitly, anti-LGBT prejudices that have and can lead to discrimination, imprisonment, and violence. Thou…

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Of Sports and Social Justice: An Interview with Rebecca Alpert

…ews who have sought a place at the Jewish table. We have been made to feel welcome; not only as “others” but as full members of the tribe. (As long as we kept other communal norms, like making monogamous family units, preferably with Jewish partners and children, but that’s another story.) I hope my work helped to bring about that change. It seems often that voices of the religious right are more audible than those of the (various) religious lefts…

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Should Faith-Based Orgs Be Allowed to Discriminate in Hiring? Introducing: A New Collaboration with Bloggingheads

…ike when they’re talking about the most controversial topics of the day?   Welcome to the first installment of RD’s collaboration with Bloggingheads TV. BhTV typically pairs writers and thinkers with somewhat conflicting views in respectful and thoughtful dialogue—or in BhTV parlance, diavlog.  Through the wonder of technology diavlogs are separated into discrete clips allowing you, the viewer, to watch only those of interest to you.  * In the fir…

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