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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…al ideas—the same stuff he tells those who visit his regular Sunday School class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. For example, Carter told the Liberty graduates that “America has abandoned its leadership…as a champion of a clean and healthy environment,” an indirect reference to Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement. He also reminded his audience that America has always had a difficult tim…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…ay. This time the specter of poverty is haunting us—the hardworking middle-class folks being wiped out by the financial meltdown, the foreclosure tsunami, confiscatory health care expenses, and a plummeting job market. Along with fear, there is real anger in middle-class suburbs about the crimes and betrayals of the best and the brightest who ran the casino economy from their well-appointed Wall Street aeries—ran it right into the ground, that is—…

Vive La Liberté

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…g of far greater moment: namely, the as-yet unresolved linkage of race and class—and violence—in contemporary US society. Similarly, the case of Alexi Grigoropoulos has come to symbolize the plight of a curious and unsung “generation,” constituted by young people roughly between the ages of 15 and 25. In Greece itself, they are known as the “Generation of 700,” referring to the unliveable seven hundred euro-a-month minimum wage. In Spain, a countr…

Marriage Remains on Hold for California Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their US District Court victory comes to its final conclusion.” The National Organization for Marriage, forgetting that real human beings are affected by such a ruling, showed its usual class with an “in your face” to attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies proclaiming: “the Dream Team of Olson and Boies continue their unbroken string of losing actions in e…

Eight Theories on the Prickliness of Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ight theses: A. a personality flaw B. a result of having been insulated by class privilege C. a result of developing his leadership style in an LDS institutional culture wherein leaders are expected to appear “flawless” and dissent and open disagreement is not sanctioned D. a consequence of a pragmatic-technocratic outlook that values incentives and outcomes over human processes (the New York Times calls it the “Mitt-bot” phenomenon) E. discomfort…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…despite their inability to limit the bill’s direct relief to white working-class domestic automobile-driving Red Man chewers. You can’t win ’em all, sometimes you gotta help those big city folks too, you know. As deep as the scar of racism runs in American society, though, there’s something even deeper at work here. Stoehr is right to point out the economic hierarchicalism that pervades this attitude. Somewhere along the way, Republicans went from…

The Economy is Racism: Ending Race-Based Economic Violence is the Real Challenge of This Moment

By Peter Laarman

…onomy. That old saw is false in at least two ways. Members of the investor class wouldn’t have been the only real “winners” throughout the past decade were it not for the increased financialization of the real economy; in addition, financial markets tend to predict with reasonable accuracy the shape of the real economy of the future. For example, despite some ongoing volatility, Nasdaq shares remain strong in relation to other indexes because it’s…

Toward a Richer Ethical Discourse in Trumplandia: A Response to Harper’s “Trump: A Resister’s Guide”

By Peter Laarman

…a white working class that “increasingly comes to resemble the black underclass in indices of social disorganization.” Tang does not say, but I will say, that a politics rooted in the God-given dignity and equality of each person can and should supplant a toxic protest politics rooted in white nationalism. Religion can function as a mediating force, and if we weren’t so damned amnesiac in this country we would be able to recall examples of that f…

RDPulpit: Did Progressive Christianity Dump its Savior in Brad Braxton?

By Ronald B. Neal

…ogressive Christians. This dilemma, which is spelled out in terms of race, class, and culture, is far from new, having plagued the progressive Christian tradition since its emergence in the early 19th century. From abolitionism to liberation theology, an uneasy relationship has existed between literate and so-called enlightened Christians and people of color; especially people of color who are in one way or another connected to or influenced by po…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…ron, to the poet Luci Shaw and even Bono of U2 — evangelicalism’s creative class is loaded with Anglicans. Parts of Searching for Sunday could have been lifted from the works of Thomas Howard. While Christ the Tiger: A Postscript to Dogma (1967) chronicles Howard’s journey from Philadelphia fundamentalism to literary Christianity (under the tutelage of C.S. Lewis enthusiast Clyde S. Kilby), Evangelical is Not Enough (1984) recounts his discovery o…