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Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…probably earned the right to open with these words: Our political debate about immigration in America frustrates me. Often I think we are just talking around the edges of the real issues. He continued: Both sides of this argument are inspired by a beautiful, patriotic idea of America’s history and values, but lately I’ve been starting to wonder. What America are we really talking about? I imagine that, at this point, some in his audien…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…cal youth, which I think is particularly relevant. One pattern we’ve known about for many years is that young voters tend to vote like their parents. Indeed, Trump won white youth by a healthy nine points. But nearly 90% of young Black voters cast ballots for Biden, enough to tip the election in Georgia in his direction. And yet it’s highly unlikely that outside of RD, we’ll ever hear much about those voters’ religious commitments, or how increasi…

‘Do They Even Read the Bible?’ — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End

By Cavan Concannon

…cal already knows to be true. If we want to argue with a White evangelical about the Bible, we need to make sure that we’re arguing about the same thing. If we want to change people’s minds, then we need to confront the whole of what the White evangelical Bible is, how it works, what its assumptions are, how it makes its adherents feel, and what it authorizes them to do. We need to confront the Bible they actually deploy, and to do so we can’t rel…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…ted into an effective political movement. “My frustration is we don’t care about it as much as the single issue Second Amendment people care,” he said. “We need to find a way to make people care about it.” Bishop Mariann Budde, of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington who is active in Bishops United Against Gun Violence, described gun control organizing as “a long distance marathon for us,” with much of the grassroots political work taking place “be…

In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

…-white Muslims (similar to the way that most Confederate statues were less about honoring the Civil War dead than they were about promoting 20th century white supremacy). In some ways, it’s not all that different from the ideas that sold people on the first Crusade back in the 11th century. And it’s not all that different from the story we tell ourselves today, every time we enter another country for their “own good.” Sure, we went into Iraq on th…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…European Jews in the Atlantic Slave Trade; and advances a larger narrative about Jewish global domination which can be traced to Christian (and later more broadly European) stereotypes. This story about Jewish global domination, as irony would have it, is the “kissing cousin” of anti-Black bigotry—cousins that comprise the foundation of the White supremacist worldview in the ascendancy today. Unsurprisingly and understandably Irving’s tweet and la…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…t on how this shows up in “social media.” I’ve also written a few articles about a group of performance activists known as Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping (they make a cameo in Theater) and have considered making them a more extensive project. Also, I’ve also been passionate about religion and ecology ever since I was an undergrad and am lately wanting to work more closely and deeply in that area again, linking it to my other…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…times easy to overlook them, but Mormons spend more of their time thinking about how to help the neighbors than they do worrying about communist teachers in the schools. Utah breathes volunteerism just as it does Tea Party platitudes, and the two are not unrelated; for the best of conservatism isn’t about astringent Calvinism, but rather the efficacy of private action. Even critics of Mormonism attest to this spirit of King Benjamin in their chara…

The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…threat to the country and an immediate threat to Jews, Muslims, trans people, immigrants, and all vulnerable populations in the United States and beyond. No more debates. No more worrying about your own camp. No more focusing solely on those who might do something about it. I’ll just say it: It’s time to cancel right-wing antisemitism….

Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

By Vincent Lloyd

…erals exactly what they want to hear: Black churches need to stop thinking about religion and start thinking about liberal policy reform – and they especially need to quiet down about the sinfulness of abortion and homosexuality. While Glaude’s essay provoked many responses, oddly absent was a specifically theological response. A Black Christian public intellectual might have argued that Church is not reducible to churches, that no matter how much…