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Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…eum in our nation’s capital. It’s no small thing, we are at the evening of President Obama’s presidency. A lot of the people coming on opening day are coming partially to say goodbye to President Obama in what will be one of his last public acts as president. For me personally, it makes me think of the spirits of the ancestors, all the men and women who never lived to see this moment, all of our ancestors who died en route to the United States and…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…rke’s story, tagged “controversies,” takes aim at an article on cultural appropriation and the yoga industry by Shreena Gandhi, a visiting faculty member in the department of religious studies at Michigan State University, and Lillie Wolff, an organizer/trainer with Crossroads Antiracism and practitioner of yoga. Unsurprisingly, commenters hurling insults don’t appear to have read the original article, though they do appear to have read the Fox Ne…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…n and to replace the old cynics with a young, brave person who does not compromise his principles. And lo and behold, the very first thing he does after securing the nomination of his party is to compromise his principles.” Avneri addressed the view of many Israelis that “Obama’s declarations at the AIPAC conference are very, very bad for peace. And what is bad for peace is bad for Israel, bad for the world and bad for the Palestinian people.” Sup…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…also true that over the last five years race and immigration have become expressed priorities for white evangelical voters. But, there’s more than one way to interpret the data. It doesn’t have to be either/or. It is not simply that abortion has been replaced. A more nuanced conclusion is that Trump’s presidency ushered in a new era where racial dog whistles and xenophobic statements have been re-normalized. This was one of my original points back…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ght and left, religious and non-religious alike debated the efficacy and appropriateness of prayer. A select set of Senate Democrats tried to foreground the issue of gun control but to no avail, failing to upend the National Rifle Associations’ lucrative death grip on the trigger conscience of the Republican Party. Republicans voted down expansions of background checks that would include stricter limits to online and gun show purchases and the pre…

Grassroots Faith: The Lessons of The Social Gospel

By Christopher H. Evans

…ebate between Silk and Clarkson goes beyond questions of who gets labeled “priestly” or “prophetic.” It reflects upon a larger difficulty of the religious Left historically to build a popular base characterized by a shared ideological consensus. Of all the figures associated with the classic social gospel, Walter Rauschenbusch’s example is critical—not only in terms of what progressives can gain from his theological and political ideas, but how he…

Death Without Religion

By Gordon Haber

…o death.” But that doesn’t mean that it’s no big deal. According to the “deprivation account,” death is a bad thing—“it deprives you of the goods of life that you might otherwise be getting.” Conversely, when life only offers bad things—if, for example, someone is too sick to enjoy life and has no hope of recovery—then death is a good thing. But how do we live, knowing that we’re going to die? Kagan believes that we should “be careful”—don’t get h…

New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?

By Noah Berlatsky

…specially Whites in the United States. In other words, division is not the problem. The problem is injustice and discrimination. When that injustice is challenged, it provokes resistance and backlash—or division. Division is a symptom of a struggle against injustice. But getting rid of the division by ignoring the injustice isn’t moral or adequate—you don’t deal with a head cold by chopping off your nose. Or, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it,…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…d in the Washington Post yesterday, in reacting to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: Will President Obama welcome the responsibility of engaging the country in this big argument, or will he shrink from it? Will his political advisers remain robotically obsessed with poll results about the 2012 election, or will they embrace Obama’s historic obligation — and opportunity — to win the most important struggle over the role of government since the New…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…ibitions against “sterile” sex within marriage—that is, sex that could not produce offspring—such as sex during pregnancy, no longer held. If some limited forms of non-procreative sex within marriage were now considered licit and sex was acknowledged to have more than one purpose in marriage, this raised the question of whether in general each and every act of intercourse within marriage necessarily had to be procreative. The second reason many th…