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Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…racial equity and economic dignity without overhauling capitalism itself. Domestic workers, retail employees, adjunct college professors, caregivers, and others have spoken this truth. Those of us who speak from American pulpits have not often listened to them. But we might. In Christian language, I would say that once we acknowledge our near-bottomless tendency for self-deceit, we can then hear the challenging good news of the One who becomes hu…

The End of Roe May Have Something Important to Tell Us About the Decline of Mainline Protestant Churches

By Peter Laarman

…, the maintenance of American economic hegemony necessarily also entails a domestic regime of violence against people of color, violence against women, and violence against not-rich people in general. It’s a regime that thoroughly subjugates internally colonized peoples and manufactures consent. As the spiritual descendants of violent European settlers, today’s American overclass applies an intersectional approach to maintaining power that the Lef…

A New Muslim Statement Against Torture

By Hussein Rashid

…k Zeba Iqbal Vice-Chair – Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals Aziz Poonawalla City of Brass, BeliefNet G. Willow Wilson Author Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur Editor, Living Islam Out Loud Wajahat Ali Playwright, The Domestic Crusaders Saeed Khan Professor, Wayne State University Sheila Musaji Editor, The American Muslim Yasir Qadhi PhD Candidate, Yale University Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Contact: no-torture@islamicate.com…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…the he has sworn to uphold Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. He readily agreed that America has been overtaken by enemies within. “Our government is infiltrated with communists, we’ve got Muslims coming in and taking over where we should be having the say about our principles.” And more: “I’m not so sure some in government don’t want to destroy our country.” Moore’s enemy list was long that night, particularly when it came…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…eatened by religious influence or intolerance, but rather that religion is cheapened by engaging secular power. This approach allows Haslam and some members of the legislature (who wanted to hear the testimony of clergy) to oppose the bill and take a moral high ground with religious constituents, while justifying “voting against” the Bible. Ironically, while Haslam and other religious opponents to HB615 cite the opinion that the bill is unconstitu…

Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator

By Ariana Childs Graham

…demic, he’s not easily relegated to one camp or another: he has focused on domestic as well as international issues, he has served within both the public and private sectors, and he worked both as clinician and civil servant. At the outset, he appears to be a great fit for the task at hand. In response to news of the pending appointment Goosby stated that PEPFAR “has already saved millions of lives in sub-Saharan Africa and other hard-hit areas ar…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…Afghanistan. The direct after-effects of September 11th continued to shape domestic and global politics. Twelve years later, with attacks on American Muslims on the rise, and a serious presidential contender claiming that “Islam hates us,” it’s much easier to see the resemblance between New Atheist invectives against Islam and other, more traditional forms of American bigotry. The End of Faith, which Harris started writing on September 12th, 2001,…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…a bridge between congress and social movements on reproductive rights and domestic violence campaigns; anti-racism and anti-homophobia campaigns; as well as protections for indigenous people, women, and children. The CDHM was also the home of a working group dedicated to the truth and memory of those killed or disappeared during Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1964–1985. With such an agenda to fulfill, the CDHM has long been the province of p…

In SOTU Speech, Obama’s Inner Pugilist Emerges

By Peter Laarman

…Obama gave much too much to Big Energy in his burning passion for tapping domestic energy sources. Fracking? Really?? Anyone who pays attention to the impact of hydraulic fracking knows how very reckless and irresponsible this is. There wasn’t much fake religion, which is always welcome. This president doesn’t like to pander in that way, I gather. But there was the odiferous religion of nationalism. There was a distinct pong of American exception…

The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads

By Peter Laarman

…re already declining before the onset of the Great Recession), even as the number of graduates in the workforce grew from 26 to 30 percent during these same years. As a New York Times report lamented back in February, “the college degree is becoming the new high school diploma”: a degree is the minimum required to hold a job, but it is not enough to deliver a reasonable middle-class income. In a recent Harper’s essay, Jeff Madrick accurately descr…