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Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ch has deep connections to formal SBC structures) for what he describes as his “shifting opinions on marriage equality and because I confessed I had struggled with ‘same-sex attraction.” By 2015, he had lost a book deal with a Christian publisher for reasons he believes to be related to his LGBT identity and his refusal to condemn other LGBT people. “I felt a rush of anger and shame,” Robertson said of his thoughts upon being removed from the conf…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…us words of the Stonewall drag-queen Sylvia Rivera: “Not take any more of this shit.” As if to make Raushenbush’s point, two of the most extreme anti-gay American activists, Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera, have announced that they will launch a new organization “whose purpose is to unify and coordinate pro-family groups around the United States and the world to more effectively oppose the now global LGBT agenda.” Uganda: Museveni at ‘war’ with ‘…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…shunning of National Prayer Day at the White House; and on and on. If you think this issue hasn’t caught fire with the base, just check out the screens of hatefully acidic commentary when Messiah College History Professor John Fea’s piece on Obama as the “most explicitly Christian President in U.S. History” found its way onto The Blaze. John Fea’s auto-da-fé came not only in the comments section, but in nasty emails, phone calls, and demands for h…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…eland, this is not so much a necessity. Sometimes it is—and the extent to which this happens, of course, depends on your personal tastes, the cliques you belong to, or the kinship circle.—For the homeland is a box of chocolates, as Forrest might put it if he were an immigrant from Khartoum, and the assortment ranges between the wildly irreligious and the devoutly, parochially, intensely religious. Take your pick. And then there are the inevitable…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ct to Bernie’s oversight. In a word, there was no paper trail on the 17th floor. If there is a connection to be made to Hitler or to the Final Solution, then here it is. Bureaucracies make the establishment of responsibility very difficult indeed. Bureaucracies make it very easy to hide—to hide things, to hide funds, to hide large programs, even to hide the destruction itself. It is what makes telling the story of what happened so difficult, and i…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…and subvert the system, have been as our drones alter lives and terrorize children in rural Pakistan. While they cannot be generalized as pro-Trump, they are excited by Clinton’s loss and explain their position by pointing to her resume of war hawk policies that have left many Muslim-majority countries devastated. The destabilization of Iraq and Syria (which has resulted in over one million refugees), the Saudi invasion of Yemen using weapons acqu…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…ne’s suffering with the suffering of others, calculating them according to hierarchies of pain, reinforces the logic of oppression. In other words, the standards that determine what belongs on the news (so-called “news values”) are deeply rooted in oppressive ideologies—regional biases, financial capital, racism, classism, sexism, and more—which constantly rank whose lives (and deaths) are more valuable, more “newsworthy,” more profitable for mass…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…ctly to God.” God becomes an individual communicator. I think this fits within this modern sense that, “I decide what’s real and not real.” Now, of course, there’s a paradox here, in that the rise of individualism is constructed by society. We’re never fully individuals—we never really have full power to decide what to think and believe—it’s always a function of the communities and cultures that we’re living within. But I think modernity created t…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t of this same confused decade, is intended to provide one such place, in which ethically serious and politically engaged persons from a variety of religious and political confessions can reflect on the possibilities of such religious rapprochement. RD’s own Katie Lofton has observed, with her singular acerbic wit, that Religion Dispatches represents a movement she describes as “Religious Studies gone public”; there is something of great substanc…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…is one sixth of what he has left—if he has a child; but if he has left no child and his parents are his only heirs, then for his mother one third; but if he has brothers and sisters, then for his mother is one-sixth, after the deduction of any bequests he may have made, or debt. As for your parents and your children—you know not which of them is more deserving of benefit from you. And you shall inherit one half of what your wives leave behind… if…