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Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…tory in the Forward highlighted the work of one of this article’s authors, Chicago-based rabbi, Tamar Manasseh and her Christmas caravan. But wait!… A Jewish rabbi and a Christmas caravan? Isn’t she confused? Jews don’t celebrate Christmas! What about Hanukkah!? For many Israelites, a religious tradition like Christmas isn’t an opportune time for a trip to the local Chinese restaurant. Instead it’s a counter-observance that deconstructs the holida…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…more liberal denominations split on gun control, they’re distracted by any number of other issues: hunger, homelessness, anti-racism, advocating for LGBT rights, refugee resettlement, Israel-Palestine and on and on and on. Anybody who’s spent time in a mainline Protestant church knows that it seems like there’s a new cause every damn day. It’s difficult to coalesce around any one issue. As if that weren’t bad enough, the ongoing self-segregation o…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…enounce the antisemitism of West and Irving respectively. Also there are a number Black Jews who felt compelled to denounce West and Irving as not being legitimate Black Jewish voices and causing harm to real Black Jews (read: some attachment to the White Jewish community via birth, marriage, or conversion). This has set up a troubling dichotomy of the “good” Black Jews versus the “bad” Black Hebrew Israelites. The mission of the good Black Jew is…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…e firebrand preacher Jeremiah Wright at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama was painted as “not a real Christian” whose pastor substituted Black power for the gospel. In Walz’s case, it’s more like being insufficiently Christian, hence Hemingway sniffing about the ELCA being a “sub-denomination.” And while many of the attacks on Obama’s faith were motivated by naked partisanship (and not a small amount of racism), I’m not sure Walz’s…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…s to check my work) and then I took the reader inside of Trinity Church in Chicago where months before I spent a good deal of time trying to understand. Explaining is not defending except for those who prefer a life of uninformed hate.” He also disagreed with Smith that he “had written a pro-Obama book that would draw evangelicals away from McCain.” And he pleads with the right-wing Christian readership that has pre-judged his book to remember tha…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…ourt majority. But despite the fact that they’ve achieved so much as their numbers have dwindled, and often in deeply unorthodox ways, most commentators fail to mention, perhaps even to see, what enabled them do it. Our new book on evangelicalism in the US emphasizes that institution-building over more than a century has created a vast and evolving network of institutions that spreads ideas, mobilizes energy, and amplifies political and theologica…

Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes

By Mary E. Hunt

…s, about ten million strong in 145 countries. In a July 2012 conference in Chicago, WAGGGS will discuss the UN Millennium Development Goals. Those include the elimination of poverty, universal primary education, gender equality, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and malaria, environmental sustainability, and the development of a global partnership for development, a blueprint for just living in the 21…

Satan Has a Posse (of Bats)

By Gabriel Mckee

…lone anti-bat prophet? A few quick Google searches reveals that similar posters have appeared in Philadelphia: …and Chicago:…

Obama’s Pastor and the Politics of Patriotic Treason

By Jonathan L. Walton

…articularly true among middle-class African Americans in the south side of Chicago. For those who have played by the social rules yet still feel alienated, angered, and victimized by racial disparities within the health, educational, economic, and criminal justice systems, Dr. Wright lets them know that they are not crazy. And while many (like Senator Barack Obama) may reject the political impracticality of his pronouncements, they are yet drawn t…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ied national action,” said Eric Scheidler, communications director for the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League, the group spearheading the coalition. Coalition members pledged to take the following steps to counter Planned Parenthood’s nationwide expansion effort: Mobilize pro-life supporters at the grassroots level wherever a new Planned Parenthood attempts to open its doors, following the model of action taken by the Pro-Life Action League and…