Search for "usa news today cleantalkorg2.ru Mutual Latest News Breaking News news today CNN International bbc news"

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…d for the end to the persecution of gay people in the name of Islam. The Jerusalem Post’s report was based on the Saudi daily Eilpah, which cited an interview in a Swedish newspaper. In the interview, Salman Odah stated that “even though homosexuality is considered a sin in all the Semitic holy books, it does not require any punishment in this world. It is a sin that will accompany its committer in the life after death.” In the interview, Salman O…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…he subpoenas. Scott pointed to a Parker tweet time-stamped around midnight today, reading, “If the 5 pastors used pulpits for politics, their sermons are fair game. Were instructions given on filling out anti-HERO petition?-A,” suggesting that the city was attempting to discover whether the petition organizers knew some of the collected signatures may have been invalid. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…absolute and joy-filled conviction that God is driving the Black freedom struggle forward despite it all. Today, as in King’s day, there is widespread dereliction of duty among the self-proclaimed faithful, but there is also a rising righteous remnant. There are hundreds of younger activists out there, primarily activists of color and many of them queer, who are walking courageously in faith even though they will tell you clearly and convincingly…

Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion

By Jeffrey Feldman

…f current events built up from multiple perspectives divided roughly among news departments. Each news department is incomplete, but taken as a whole the news organization assembles a foundation of information that is broad and accurate enough to help the public understand events and make decisions. Should there be a religion department adding to this fact base in every newspaper? I imagine most editors would want there to be—in an ideal world whe…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…e themselves on being trained not to do, yet very often they continue to struggle with it in the post-Trump era. And make no mistake about it, Graham’s questions were not offered in good faith. People reacting to his interaction with Jackson seemed to think he was grilling her, but I saw something much more passive-aggressive. Anyone who has spent real time in the South knows what it’s like to be asked “What’s your faith?” or “Where do you go to c…

Act, Pray, Tweet: What the H*ll To Do About Gun Violence?

By Marcia Pally

…last August. But the mounting frustration of chasing solutions is the good news. The Daily News piece “God Isn’t Fixing This,” articles in the Atlantic and Washington Post, the Nation’s compilation of candidate reactions to the San Bernadino shooting, Daniel Schultz’s parallel list of reactions relative to NRA campaign contributions, The Huffington Post’s collection of political figures calling for prayers and the stories on every news outlet… All…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…stian nationalists are lining up, not just behind former president Donald Trump, but also anti-vaxx activism. That has implications for the acceptance of Novavax, of course, but also for the general development of right-wing activism. That is, there might be a whole lot more to vaccine refusal than a desire to avoid certain kinds of medication, and that “more” might be helping to feed the energy of some of the most disturbing actors in contemporar…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

“Would you like to appear on FOX News to talk about Israel and Palestine?” Sure, why not? If you’re going to go out, better it be in a blaze of glory. Going into a television interview, I should note, one must have goals. Objectives. Hopes. Dreams. One must also have fears. What do I want to say, and what do I absolutely not want to say? What do I want to focus on? What do I want to stress? Who am I trying to reach? When it comes to the current v…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism as origins of America’s post-truth fake news world, and makes the mistake—in my view—of downplaying religion. What, after all, are the lines of influence from academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism to what David Brooks called the “alternative-reality right”? In Andersen’s account, these ideas sort of enter the American milieu, where they cook in the stew of American individualism until they become…

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…. I follow him to the cross, but not on the cross. I’m not getting myself crucified.” Today we find ourselves in the cleft between Clarence’s invitation and Robert’s refusal. White Christianity in America is mounting a breach that’s too wide to straddle. A house that sits on a fault line will crumble, forcing those who have lived in it to leap the gap to one side or the other. This predicament is common to the entire cosmos, a certain theological…