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We Declare You Restored: How Christian ‘Forgiveness’ is Deployed to Enable Abuse and Corruption

By Greg Carey

…Freeze’s unsolicited direct messages occurred even more recently. It took him being hired by Auburn for him to utter a not-so-public apology—one that didn’t mention Chelsea Andrews by name so far as we can tell. Yet Auburn’s athletic director and president have both attested that the university performed a thorough vetting of a man who, until then, hadn’t even acknowledged he’d done anything wrong in harassing Andrews. Moreover, no one from Aubur…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…news of death. But in a matter of days Pokemon Go has changed our relationship with death. This is new territory. For years now we have been able to escape our physical spaces with our phones. But Pokémon Go doesn’t just allow us to avoid a “real” place in favor of a “virtual” one. It has instead transformed our real spaces into virtual ones. It may have been bad manners to play video games at a cemetery, or to take a selfie at a funeral, but with…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ovince, Chen, who lost his sight as a child, nevertheless managed to teach himself Chinese law. He acquired a reputation as an advocate who was willing to go to court on behalf of his neighbors. He became aware that many of the women in his village were being forced to abort and undergo sterilization. In 2005 he exposed these coercive tactics. Forced abortions and sterilizations are illegal in China under a 2002 law that gives individuals the righ…

Fear, Guns, and the (Unwinnable) War Against Death: A Letter to My Fellow Americans

By Beatrice Marovich

…se. Maybe you wanted to live with a little less fear. Or maybe it was something else. Something more complicated. Maybe you believe there’s an evil in the world that travels like a virus. Maybe you’re afraid that it’s already spread to almost everyone else here in America. And you believe that you’re still pure, or clean: you haven’t caught it. And you’ll do anything you can not to catch it, not to let your family catch it. Maybe you believe that…

War on Christmas Affirmed by Southern Baptist Convention

By Mark Gstohl

…o mind is also known as The Golden Rule found in Matthew 7:12 “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” What Southern Baptists are seeking is for employers to force their employees to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Would Christian employees be comfortable being forced by their employers to say Happy Hanukah or Happy Kwanzaa or Happy Ramadan to their customers? What if non-Chri…

Does It Matter If Islam Is A Religion? An American Ahmadi Explains The Effects Of Religious Discrimination

By Daniel Schultz

…ishable from any other Muslim denomination. But this self-understanding is highly contested within Islam. They have been described as the “Quakers of Islam” because of their commitment to pacifism, social equality, and democratic self-governance. They have also been frequent targets of violence and persecution, particularly in their homeland Pakistan. In 2010, extremists attacked Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, killing 98. Early in Pakistan’s history, a…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…un control debate [may have] ended when we decided to do nothing after 27 white children were massacred at Sandy Hook.” But beyond resignation, or rather in defiant testimony, we must assert as the old R&B hit once did, that the beat goes on. What must be done is radical communion in the face of radical hatred. Solidarity together, vigil together, communion together, being together, the declaration and defense of deregulated Life together, is what…

From A Belize Jungle, A Look At Creationist “Outreach” in Vancouver

By Lauri Lebo

…is holding what it calls its “Olympic Outreach.” AiG is the organization behind the Kentucky-based Creation Museum, which claims that the Book of Genesis is not only literally true, but that they have the science to prove it. The museum features Disney World-like robot dinosaurs, a replica of Noah’s Ark built to scale and plenty of scripture, but is actually quite short on scientific claims to back up its assertions beyond “God did it because the…

Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…rm as we wish. This, we claim, is “freedom.” We often feel we need know nothing at all of the historical or social situations that give rise to important climactic moments in countries other than our own. How many of the people who play the Kuma Games Qaddafi mission will know much more of the story than what they play in the game? A game that is, by necessity, being designed and filtered through the lens of the game’s creators, who may be as igno…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…isemitic dog whistle “PRESIDENT TRUMP REJECTS GLOBALIST WARMONGERS”). And while this in itself isn’t news—it’s essentially what Trump has vowed to implement in a second term—there was another, disconcerting glimpse into the mind of the Trumposphere. Multiple times in the video, text appears below a headline, which reads: Industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified Reich. The German word for “empire,” Reich can…