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Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…holars and also people I was interviewing in the course of doing the work, really wanted to know, “have you had the experience?” I did go and have a genetic ancestry test. At this point I really knew that I had to write about the reveal as a phenomenon, and so I wanted to include my own reveal. I wanted to have the experience of the reveal. I had a plan to attend the Leon Sullivan Summit, and the summit turns out to be cancelled, and instead a few…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…ally hard to find all the funders. So, the 11 think tanks that we focus on really come out of what we were observing through those materials. I was doing a deep dive into the bills and would look at who’s writing the model bills—it’s the same handful of players which includes prominent federal and state, and behind-the-scenes think tanks. The think tanks platforming the fellows who are writing the reports that criticize DEI and CRT—these are the s…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…ledge about jellyfish, he confesses to Rich that the human species doesn’t really deserve to uncover the jellyfish’s secrets. Humans, he says, haven’t really learned to love yet. They’re too violent. They can’t love one another, and they certainly don’t love the world. “If everyone learns to love living organisms, there will be no crime. No murder. No suicide. Spiritual change is needed,” he tells Rich. The revelation of the jellyfish’s secret is…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…he claims and the stunts to be pretty outrageous. Christian bands had some really strange ideas and some interesting justifications for wearing makeup and having long hair. I had a database of hundreds of Christian metal bands, and I poured through all kinds of fan magazines to follow them. My favorite anecdote is the one about an obscure band from Texas called Stryken. They attended a Motley Crue concert wearing futuristic suits of armor. They so…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat was thrust upon me, it wasn’t something I was seeking. That’s when you really know it’s grace, when it’s really disruptive. If 15 or 20 years ago someone had said to me, “You’ll eventually be a Lutheran pastor.” I would have said, “Oh, my God, I’m sorry, I think you have the wrong girl. Clearly, I’m not.” It’s strange to say that God had a purpose or God was using me in some way because it can feel like a form of spiritual self-flattery—but I…

WikiLacks: Did Clinton Campaign Mock Catholics? Not Really

By Patricia Miller

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being pilloried by right-wing media and conservative Catholic activists for supposedly “mocking” Catholics in emails released by WikiLeaks from campaign manager John Podesta’s email account. In what the Washington Times is characterizing as an “assault on Catholics,” Clinton campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri discussed conservative Catholics in an email exchange with John Halpin, a senior fellow at the progressi…

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say: God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…Chambers inevitably run afoul of the facts, because the facts are not what really interest them. If we assume that Santorum is being sincere in his bigotry rather than purely opportunistic, what he’s really interested in is religion, not social policy. If it were social policy that motivated him, he’d read the studies of same-sex couples in Massachusetts and in other countries, which show that they raise children as well as opposite-sex couples, f…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…East, and at the same time, I am one. But…when the Muslim ban happened, it really destroyed a lot of my faith in this country, and it really hurt my family.” (Jeff Goldblum, open-mouthed, nodded along as Cox spoke.) “I’m here, and I deserve to be in America as much as anyone else.” In a challenge meant to celebrate American inclusivity, Cox had to share her personal trauma and champion religious freedom (very American of her, no?) so as not to hav…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…oric may be more powerful for men. Being seen as the “animal” of humankind really isn’t a compliment. I just keep thinking “Reacquaint yourselves with Rosemary’s Baby, women of America, because if the right wing has their way, we’ll all be heading for housecoats and unlimited childbearing which we will allegedly turn out to love.” There’s a critical reading of the film that says that what’s really going on is that Rosemary is insane (hysterical) a…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…d of awesome that you thought The Handmaid’s Tale was of recent vintage—it really speaks to Atwood’s power as a writer, as well as a thinker about issues of women and power and religion. I read the book when it first came out as a young woman just coming to consciousness in the teeth of the Reagan administration. As someone who already had an interest in the Christian Right and issues of reproductive control, it really spoke to me and creeped me o…