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Why All the Silly Devil Talk Should be Taken Seriously

By Ebony Utley

…rofessor Griff. If we look at this through the lenses of race, gender, and class identity in the U.S., we begin to see that it is no accident that talented, powerful, popular, and rich African American male rappers, along with female artists, are being targeted by these claims. There is no better way to temper black men’s influence on tween and teen audiences, for example, than by claiming they are evil. (MC Hammer is himself black, but he seems h…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…mainline denominations still have healthy representation of white, working-class and rural segments.) Likewise, older and Evangelical respondents are more likely to say the US has lost its Christian identity than younger survey subjects, or any other religious group. Ditto “Is Islam a threat to American values?” When it comes to the question of whether there’s too much immigration from Middle Eastern nations, though, things seem to break down alon…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…the Good Death in mid-19th century America as a part of respectable middle-class expectation as much as it was about any particular religious affiliation. One died at home in the presence of family around the deathbed. The dying person was conscious of death’s approach and willing to accept it. Family members assessed the spiritual state of the dying in relation to the deathbed scene, including careful attention to the dying person’s last words. A…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…benefit of classed rather than for the simple human being of any and every class. Aspiration Meets Desperation Mostly, members of the various wedding parties were unperplexed by the protesters offering testimony against an economic system that excludes far too many Americans from the fullness of even the most modest constructions of “domestic bliss.” “That cat’s a f**king loser,” offered one groomsman by way of commentary, as Tom, a mechanic from…

North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ieties throughout prior history.” Looks like NC leg could use a Civics 101 class on how the Constitution & #SCOTUS work (eh, @BetsyDeVosED?). 🤔 #LGBTQ https://t.co/4A5as9AgGq — Lambda Legal (@LambdaLegal) April 11, 2017 The bill is unlikely to pass, and even if it did it would be vetoed by North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, the state’s former attorney general who refused to defend HB2 in court. The “Uphold Historical Marriage Act” has be…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…in the Americas during and after the Atlantic slave trade up to today. The class includes discussion of West African religions, the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, the role of politics, the construction of racial identities, and most importantly, the diversity of African American religions. But we don’t examine the diversity within African American religions just for the sake of religious variety. Within various forms of Christianity, Islam, a…

Southern Baptist Convention Declares Gay Rights Are Not Civil Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to every last detail, is incomprehensible—and reprehensible. If a group—or class—of people is being blatantly discriminated against not just by churches, but by federal and state governments, and said group, or class, decides to rebel against that discrimination and claim its rightful place as full, tax-paying citizens of the United States of America, you can damn well bet it is a civil rights movement. Nobody copyrighted the phrase, and nobody ca…

Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw

By Ira Chernus

…s’ human rights? Do you judge it by its world-class universities and world-class science and technology? Or by its growing gap between rich and poor, as the utopian socialism of the kibbutz experiment collapses before the juggernaut of neo-1liberal corporate capitalism? Do you judge it by its vibrant avant-garde cultural scene, or by the way it marginalizes its Arab citizens and its growing population of Asian “guest workers”? Perhaps the only fai…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…aluma, California. As their Web site explains, the Institute “explores the frontiers of consciousness” to “build bridges between science and spirit,” and “research subtle energies.” Such baloney works wonders for middle-class self-absorption, and for Brown it serves as a useful device. By merging mind and matter, it allows Brown, through Katherine Solomon, to construct his own “missing link between modern science and ancient mysticism.” Part of th…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…e Supremacy emphasizes how wealthy whites benefit from working- and middle-class whites identifying with them, often against their own economic interests. So, apart from simply failing to take responsibility for their followers’ actions, how does blaming Antifa or BLM for the violence at the Capitol fit into all of this? There’s a long history in the United States of leaders who are aligned with or benefit from White Supremacy exhibiting a very sp…