Religion Dispatches
…as elected governor, she affiliated with a third church, where she attends services while in the state capitol, the Juneau Christian Center, another Pentecostal church. In March 2009, Juneau Christian Center is scheduled to host a prayer evening organized by Christians United for Israel, headed up by Pastor John Hagee (yes, the one McCain had to distance himself from after a sermon surfaced in which Hagee said Hitler was a tool God used to force J…
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…s but limited provocation, followed by a deft, just-in-time retreat to the center (…) the Florida governor has figured out that Republicans love a culture-war brawl, but that overdoing it can alienate a general-election electorate.” It’s unclear just what “center” DeSantis has ever returned to—he has a clear track record of implementing culture wars rhetoric into actual legislation that discriminates against LGBTQ people, he’s spread hate and lies…
Read More…icials and by the European Center for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, the Christian Right legal organization created by televangelist Pat Robertson. From Rosie Scammell at the Religion News Service: While the Vatican and the Italian hierarchy opposed the bill, the removal of a “stepchild adoption” clause was seen as a significant triumph for the Catholic Church. The measure was set to allow a person to ado…
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…les with conflicts of race and systemic inequality that are intertwined in American society. During Jim Crow, Smith examined the influence of Christian nationalism on the issues of her time, and her work continues to speak to us today. Current attempts by right-wing politicians to blur the lines of separation between church and state are a continuation of nationalist and fascist movements that existed not only in Smith’s lifetime, but throughout a…
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…s—once and for all, with help from the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. As important as it is to tell the dark truth about conversion therapy, it is just a important that Alex’s story has a happy ending: she makes a courageous escape, finds allies, fights a historic court battle to go home under the protection of the law as a gay teenager, reunites with her now accepting family, fi…
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…by Imam Faisal Rauf, who has a long record of interfaith dialogue with the American Jewish community. Indeed, as almost every mainstream Jewish organization has recognized, there’s no better place than downtown Manhattan for such a strong protest against extremism. Al Qaeda does not stand for Islam, this center says—and intolerance does not stand for America. But that subtlety is lost in the broad brush of Fox News’ yellow journalism, conservative…
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…pushing Hillary to follow through on her promise to get Mother Teresa “her center for babies.” This was “no small feat,” as Belz notes, “in a city that was known then for its inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy.” But as Clinton describes in Living History, she put the muscle of the White House behind the initiative, “cutting red tape with the housing authorities and human services officials.” The Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children opened in 19…
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…ours go there. I don’t think the tours themselves created D.C. as a sacred center. I think that was already there. If we’re talking about causes and effects, they are the effect of this broader narrative about D.C. as a sacred center of the nation where everything good has happened—but now all this evil is happening. One of the ways I’ve been thinking about this since January 6 is by inspecting the way we talk about ‘unmarked Protestantism’ in a l…
Read More…g the series this week, vandals spray-painted a Nashville mosque and youth center unconnected to the Islamville community. According to the Nashville Scene blog: “Muslims Go Home” and a Crusade-style cross were scrawled across the front of Al-Farooq Islamic Center on Nolensville Road, says Salaad Nur, a spokesman. He says the mosque, which primarily serves members of the Somali community, has contacted the police and the FBI. “They also left a let…
Read More…every opportunity. As I reported last year, when Fox News and the American Center for Law and Justice were claiming that the Congressional Muslim Staff Association was infiltrated by terrorists, American Conservative Union board member Suhail Khan (who has long been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating not just the government, but the conservative movement), told me: “since 9/11 there have been a c…
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