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80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ree, to move to the top of the list. Postcolonial Leadership Lessons? When rumors of the likely appointment of Welby began flickering across news sites in the UK and then the US just two days after Obama’s rout of Romney, I couldn’t help wondering if the Anglican Communion might not have a few things to learn from the demographic configuration of the GOP defeat. The American GOP is, after all, something of a doppelganger of the racial, ethnic, cla…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…ling was conducted June 5-23, after Hillary Clinton ended her presidential run. According to the Gallup website, Hispanic Catholics may be a key to Obama winning the Catholic vote: “In these data, roughly one in seven Catholic registered voters report being of Hispanic ethnicity, and they prefer Obama by a 66% to 25% margin. Among non-Hispanic Catholics, McCain has a 46% to 43% advantage.” “For much of the 20th century, American Catholics were loy…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…d-induced restrictions on worship, a move critics say is to excuse blatant rule-breaking and obscure the real purpose of the events. And while courts have given credibility to aspects of Feucht’s argument—most notably in a series of recent Supreme Court decisions in favor of houses of worship opposed to local restrictions—Feucht himself seems to have a higher calling in mind: religious revival. His personal website sells “Revival or Bust” T-shirts…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…anyone. Back then, in 2005, the secular Israeli reaction to Rabbi Yosef’s reading of world events was swift and sharp: Knesset Member Ronny Brison said: “What, is God cross-eyed? He metes out punishments at the wrong place? We’re sick and tired of Rabbi Ovadia’s primitive worldview. He already did his part, he can remove himself from public life.” This week, seven years after Hurricane Katrina, Rabbi Yosef again used his Saturday night radio pul…

Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson

By Eva Mroczek

…acter of the chosen or unchosen. This is hard to swallow. Since antiquity, readers of the Bible have struggled to explain these troubling accounts—to discern some coherent, morally explicable reason for apparently arbitrary differences in fortune, and to redraw the world as a fair place after all. In one account, the Talmud relates that God offered the Torah to all the nations, but only the Jews accepted it. This reversal has two effects: it keeps…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…special duty of progressive believers; conservative responses to the daily news run mostly to cynicism, despair, and waiting for the Lord to return in his glory to judge our failures. And if belief is to provide any kind of witness to our diverse society, it must be able to articulate a meaningful alternative to what we see all around us. In a sense, I am advocating that progressive believers reclaim “hope” as a theological category. First we will…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…e and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Hard questions for today Reading “Beyond Vietnam” today stirs up deep memories and raises difficult questions for me. I was just cutting my activist teeth in 1967, and I wondered then—as I do now—about my vocation and our vocation as seekers of justice and peace. Today, as then, the Left is divided between so-called “centrists” (ignoring how far to the right the center has moved) and those wh…

Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…mpaign employed the mantra, “Homosexuals cannot reproduce, so they must recruit. And to freshen their ranks, they must recruit the youth of America.” However, surveys and studies of those who actually abuse children demonstrate just how mistaken the link between queer people and sexual abuse is. Study after study has found that queer people do not, in fact, harm children at higher rates than other people. Instead, a very different picture emerges…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…to Thoreau, there’s a long tradition of trying to make do with what you already have, and maybe learning to live with less. Silicon Valley, with a futurist and libertarian-leaning ideology all its own, is no exception. This new brand of technologically-enhanced asceticism, however, is based less on minimalism than it is on outsourcing, by building a simple life on the backs of sweatshop laborers and the unregulated sharing economy. Although he li…

The Sacred Myths of My People: A 4th of July Reflection

By Kate Blanchard

…e part of our civic culture is slowly waking up to the ways that Americans live—indeed have always lived—in different universes, though these undoubtedly intersect and overlap. There is simply no comparing the universe in which I live to the universe of George Washington, or for that matter the universes of Tamir Rice, Dolores Huerta, or Kim Kardashian. I don’t even want to imagine the universe this guy lives in. But there is always a temptation f…