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Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

By Ryann Croken

…ndolences of a stranger. Nevertheless, as I listen to this story, I cannot help but overhear a haunting chorus of overlapping elegies. There is an elegy for Kruse’s way of life, which was robbed from him by the oil spill. There is an elegy for the Gulf of Mexico, whose plants and animals will never understand what hit them. There is an elegy for Kruse’s dead brother, a re-elegy of sorts, for a man who had his burial site despoiled and vandalized b…

Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…cop said: ‘Yell if you need help!’ And one of the people in my class said ‘help.’ The guy overheard and he came in and shot her.” That’s it. That’s the detail that got me. A child desperately needing to trust a caring adult. A child shot to pieces for needing and trusting. Because of a cop’s incompetence. The teachers were the heroes The boy’s eyewitness account is more damning in context. The Washington Post reported Thursday that, with his rifle…

Gulf Residents Urged to Unite in Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

…a. The higher-than-normal winds that radiate far from the storm also could help the crude evaporate faster.” In the proclamation released Friday by Jindal’s office, the governor said that prayers are needed “as our collective fight to recover from this crisis and prevent future damage continues.” In a post on the Louisiana Coalition for Science blog, Barbara Forrest points out that the signing of the proclamation came two years to the day that Jin…

“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…seling, and prayer. On their Web site, Exodus Youth provides “resources to help you minister to struggling youth, understand the root causes and treatment of homosexuality, address homosexuality as a church, and confront the false pro-gay theology.” The premise of Exodus is that youth must change, and that their sexuality is merely a disorder, addiction, or false identity. The most recent post on the Exodus Youth blog by Chris Stump “Tragic Losses…

Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

…hey’d been accustomed to doing. Scholars argue whether or not the New Deal helped or hindered the nation’s recovery, and if it fundamentally altered or safeguarded capitalism, yet its influence on American values and identity shaped successive generations. Alongside older notions of self-help and limited government, the New Deal fostered acceptance of a strong centralized state actively involved with its citizens’ material well-being. The state gu…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…issues and we want to be the contrary voice to the official church and to help these Catholics see their social justice tradition and family life as [being] as important as anything coming from the bishops,” said Palacios. Noting that Catholics have experienced religious discrimination, he added, “we should be the group that thinks through aligning ourselves with [the] marginal and alienated and to see how Jesus would approach people themselves.”…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…ca, can reach out more to include Muslims in such discussion, and to offer help as fledgling Muslims groups with progressive values try to organize, often again considerable pressure from their own religious leaders. Often Christians and Jews think of Muslims as somehow exceptional—as if Muslims are somehow so different that they cannot be called to a common podium to speak. Yet Muslim communities are going through crises and internal debates now…

Missionary Imposition: Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children

By Anthea Butler

…cal Christians fall into: those poor brown/black/yellow/red people need My help. Jesus wants Me to help them. To much of white American Evangelical Christianity, the We often means Me. It’s what God Called Me to do. It’s what God would want Me to do. The problem with the Me mentality of much of conservative Evangelical Christianity is that they often can’t see the We—the people of Haiti—who love their kids so much they’re willing to let some white…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…without health insurance while her cells generated millions (and probably helped to drive up health care costs as well). Human beings are adept at exploitation—especially humans who feed on capitalist systems of economy. When something begins to resemble a resource (even the human body, an animal, or a cancer cell), we are often quick to make indiscriminate and unethical use of it. As I see it, the quest for biological immortality turns to real c…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…ing Obama’s victory, even though there are pressing economic and civil liberties issues to address first at home, it would be a mitzvah (as we say in Hebrew) for the United States to begin to help rebuild a part of the world that it has worked so diligently to help destroy. Photo by flickr user jamestraceur, used under a Creative Commnons license….