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Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…all the different elements of the political process. Weyrich acknowledged that from that moment on, his life was “changed”: He spent the early part of the 1970s working “to get these people who really have the same morals, who have the same ideals, but who came to it from different traditions to work together.” For nearly forty years, Weyrich contributed his ideas, organizational acumen, and fundraising skills to help build what evolved from an un…

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…out the state of the nation. Regardless of the final choice of candidate, that savior-hungry state is what the next president and congress face. It’s tells us where America is hurting, where it’s going, and what sort of means it’s using to get there. Stylistically, both men court the outrageous. Trump’s provocations have dominated the headlines, but Cruz has been called a “firebrand” by Bloomberg News, while the New York Times says he uses “the mo…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…irt at a St. Patrick’s Day parade but not at a Juneteenth festival in one that says “Free-ish since 1865.” Again, the issues of race and slavery prevent this level of ethno-racial cosplay that we so frequently witness around White ethnic and patriotic celebrations in this nation. Not to mention the ever-present charge of cultural (mis)appropriation that’s leveled at any display of cross-cultural participation that makes attendance at Juneteenth fe…

RDEpistle: Open Letter to Sean Hannity

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ons will be at greater peril. I fear (our children) will inherit a nation that is less free and less secure than the nation we inherited from the last generation. It is therefore our job to stop them. Not just debate them, but defeat them.” — Sean Hannity Dear Sean: I found these words on page 11 of your book Let Freedom Ring. This book, and similar ones from your conservative colleagues Bill O’Reilly and Michael Savage, was found in the home of a…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…ll make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assembly, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The issue of race took much longer to resolve constitutionally. Once the constitutional convention reached a stalemate on the question of the slave trade they agreed to let it remain in plac…

Khalifah: We Really Do Have Control Over Our Own Destiny

By Amina Wadud

…God/Allah/the Lord). This agency, we sometime refer to with regard to our “free will”, that is discussed ad-nauseam by religious thinkers. For the moment, I will refer to it as empowerment. Also note that “on the earth” is part of this plan. In Islamic cosmology we have no fall. The earth is where we were pre-destined to inhabit and so here we are. But agency of khilafah, I see as responsibility. We make our own destiny here on earth. There is a r…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…veryone turns to God. If you’re going to turn back to God, know right now that sin will NOT give up its ground easily. Whatever you choose to fight will fight you back. Have you ever watched a movie about DDay? The scenes are intense and graphic. It was a tangled mix of abject fear and intense focus on a single task. Kill or be killed. Is that similar to how you are going to approach your battle with porn? We hope so. Now here’s the good part. You…

Why I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…vil marriage under the Constitution, and they must be allowed to exercise that right freely, including buying goods and services from businesses open to the public. The brief filed by Masterpiece Cakeshop’s attorneys goes so far as to say, “The cake, which serves as the iconic centerpiece of the marriage celebration, announces through Phillips’s voice that a marriage has occurred and should be celebrated.” While a wedding cake may, for some, be th…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n do not need to be taught what gay and transgender is. “We are concerned that what is being proposed is not teaching children facts but indoctrinating them with a particular political/sexual philosophy.” He claimed mandatory LGBT education would go against the human rights act, and added: “The bottom line is that we are opposed to our state education system being used for social engineering and for foisting propaganda upon children. “We believe t…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…nce of cyberspace technologies that are used to produce high fidelity and that promote degrading and evil purposes… Beware of digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience. If courts seem to be failing to get to the heart of digital violence’s complex blurring of idea and action, maybe it’s time for religious and philosophical thinkers to step up to the…