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Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…py. By the time the mother was halfway to the school the DJ had more news. Most of the shooting took place in the school library. There appeared to be fatalities. The mother was still focused on her mission. Getting to the school. But SWAT teams had set up a perimeter. Trucks. Sharp shooters. Big dogs. It looked like a war. It looked like a Bruce Willis movie. People in uniforms told the mother to go to an elementary school across the way. There,…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…hand-to-hand fight over a bottomless-pit-area, which has made its way into most recent Star Trek (and for that matter, Star Wars) movies. But in that same spirit, once again the villain is beaten mostly by well-placed brawn rather than anything more worthy of utopia. Am I asking too much? It is, after all, just a sci-fi show. Not really. At least in retrospect, 1991’s The Undiscovered Country was a political masterpiece for the end of the Cold War…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…t to keep Jones from inciting a riot, I guess, by outraged Muslims. What’s most disturbing about the case was that Jones was locked up, not because he was suspected of committing a crime, but because he refused to promise that he wouldn’t go near the mosque. (Hey Wayne County, thought crime, much?) The ACLU submitted an amicus curiae brief to the 19th District Court in defense of Jones’ right to protest, which says, “If the First Amendment has any…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has “no reason to think” that the Obama administration feels it “owes” the Bishops for health care refo…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…testers, but to effect an occupation where he had the opportunity to do it most powerfully, and, in doing so, to make real the nonviolent, non-combative, even respectful, ethos of a movement that continues to vex so many in the media and in positions of political leadership. “I approached the song as though I was given an opportunity by these world leaders,” Makana explains. “As though I were asked, ‘Hey, what’s your idea? What’s your input?’” Mak…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…Wait, are you implying that science is a religion? Science is perhaps the most religious religion. It’s the most fundamentalist. The Lord and savior of science is physics, so gravity is the deity that all religious practitioners of science worship. Is there room in Ultra Spirituality for scientific discoveries? Absolutely not. In fact, science is the enemy of true Ultra Spiritual growth. I’m personally working on techniques to disengage my attach…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…the coverage was intense, it has been overwhelmingly superficial, for the most part failing to consult historians, social scientists, and human rights groups about what happens to a society when it is buffeted by the gusts of populist anger. Is it fair to mention Republican Scott Brown, the right-wing populists, and the Oklahoma City bombing in one article? Can there be a role for people of faith and their allies in ensuring that no such linkage…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ality. But I think the same way about people who can’t see that it’s not just common decency, but true morality, to grant gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people full and equal rights in both society and the church. It’s easy to think of these folks as crazy—and it’s fairly easy to begin to hate them, not just for their opinions, but for how hard they fight against us. Certainly, I can’t morally equate my view of the world with Phelps’ or my…

Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees

By Sarah A. Bowen

…s Pope Francis consider the cost of raising a child, which may not be realistic for some couples just trying to get by. The average cost of raising a child in the U.S. through age 17 is estimated at over $200,000. This is well out of reach of many couples. So are the resources or funds to go through the complex adoption process. Further, many couples are rejected when trying to adopt. The Pope’s suggestion that if a couple can’t have a child, they…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…-cold astonishment, by all means take a moment to read Michael Kranish’s postmortem on the Romney campaign from the Sunday Boston Globe. Romney’s campaign, Kranish writes, “made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes, that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.” To wit: Team Romney was (as we all knew) far too timid…