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Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…’s call to departure entails severing or forgoing the bonds of traditional domestic life—a prospect that’s easier to contemplate if the longing for the social and sexual relationships of a householder is attenuated or absent in the heart of the hero. In monasteries and convents and among the ranks of shamans, sages and spiritual warriors, gay men and women are disproportionately represented not only because those social locations have traditionall…

Obama Gets Religion in Indonesia

By Hussein Rashid

…. Because of the popular conflation of Arabs and Muslims, both in terms of number and authenticity, including at bodies such as the Council of Foreign Relations, the President needs to obliquely address the concern. I also believe that Obama was directing the speech to address domestic concerns as well. The key line is “individuals are not defined solely by their faith.” There is so much that is made of Obama’s faith, over his actual accomplishmen…

Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity

By Ryann Croken

…something larger, something greater and more colorful and chaotic than our domestic agendas. Travel imparts one with the indelible impression that something is out there. That something may not be the existence of God, but it is certainly the existence of the rest of the world, for it has been proven, empirically, that the world exists, and it can be argued that it is not only intellectually, but also spiritually edifying to tap into this greater…

Vive La Liberté

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…erstood, is the linkage of several cultural fronts: the war on terror; the domestic suspension of civil liberties it has so often entailed; the staggering failure of conservative governments to pay their bills, in the name of “tax reform” whose real purpose seems to be the continual reduction of government spending and government services; the sudden and shocking revelation of the most corrupt aspects of corporate culture, worldwide. It is the col…

As Vaccine Holdouts Cave What’s the Lesson for Liberals? Authoritarians Require Force

By John Stoehr

…r, Ned Lamont. The state press corps spent last week speculating about the number of workers who’d walk off the job before being forced to get the shot. Attention settled on school bus drivers. Around 500,000 children depend on them. Reporters asked the Lamont administration what it would do if thousands of kids were left stranded. But by Monday, it was clear that the vast majority of drivers complied with the law. A similar pattern played out acr…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…of the religious right have been greatly exaggerated. While their overall numbers may be declining, conservative white evangelicals are still highly motivated to vote, as demonstrated in the midterm election this year. For the midterms, they were motivated by what politicians cast as religious liberty issues, but it’s not a stretch to imagine who those issues could be entwined with Israel. Advocacy groups already have been casting the political a…

Sexist, Homophobic Representatives of “The Black Church” Just Want to Make Black America Great Again

By Anita Little

…grounds, like Bishop James W.E. Dixon who was arrested a few years back on domestic violence charges, or Rev. Jamal “These Hoes Ain’t Loyal” Bryant who likes using his pulpit to police black women’s sexuality despite his own well-publicized dalliances. Though they all claim to be Democrats or Independents, the signatories sure do have a lot in common with the staunch conservatives who would turn a blind eye to (valid) issues the letter addresses,…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…tions of increasing right-wing political violence into a tawdry story of a domestic dispute between two men, coupled with an attempt to associate addiction and homosexuality with degeneracy. On social media, this conspiracy theory spread, along with frequent use of the images of the Berkeley house with the Pride/weed flag and school bus (which displayed a sign about the psychoactive substance ibogaine as a “natural addiction treatment”), to claim…

In Times of Upheaval, SBC Turns Its Back on “the Least of These”

By Essence C. Jackson

…tions, having unplanned pregnancies, and are victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. It’s time to stop stigmatizing Planned Parenthood for providing abortion—and ignoring the full spectrum of reproductive and general healthcare that they provide. Without Planned Parenthood, our church members and the communities where many of our churched are located—particularly those living in rural communities—would be without much-needed preventive an…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…charged with attempted strangulation of his wife and later found guilty of domestic battery.” This is just one story of many coming out of this community. Christian patriarchy is often presented by its proponents as a viewpoint that protects women. In his book Her Hand in Marriage, Wilson writes, “Women inescapably need godly masculine protection against ungodly masculine harassment; women who refuse protection from their fathers and husbands must…