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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…” Loesch concludes. “I’m the National Rifle Association of America and I’m freedom’s safest place.” Holley gets the context of the video right, I think: If Loesch’s rhetoric is an attempt to draw battles lines and stoke outrage, she’s feeding into a clearly-defined narrative that exists among right-wing websites on the Internet, one that views a clash between conservatives and liberals in almost prophetic terms. I think Holley means “apocalyptic t…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…Uganda, authored Politicial Research Associates’ 2012 report, “Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Politics in Africa,” which among other things examines the African activities of the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal organization established by Pat Robertson and run by Jay Sekulow with the assistance of his son Jordan. A more recent article by PRA researcher Jandira Queiroz discusses the launch of…

Catholic Bishops Tackle Racism, But Is It Too Late?

By Patricia Miller

…to the likelihood that someone voted for Trump in the GOP primaries. White Republicans for whom white identity holds little salience were unlikely to vote for Trump. But as the degree of white identity increases, so did the likelihood that a Republican intended to voted for Trump, until at the top of the scale: Among those who said their identity as whites was extremely important to them, Trump’s support reached 81 percent. Catholics, it should be…

Not So Fast: New Data Does Not Support Conservative Shift for Dems

By Patricia Miller

…ame: 19% for the GOP and 20% for the Democrats. (The poll didn’t break out African American Catholics, but according to PRRI about 6% of African Americans are Catholic and historically they have been affiliated with the Democratic Party.) This means that the narrative that Catholics have abandoned the Democratic Party—and therefore that the party needs to take drastic action like reversing its position on abortion—is largely unsupported by the dat…

Significant Changes to LDS Scripture Reflect Shifting Church Views on Racist History

By Joanna Brooks

…istory, Church leaders stopped conferring the priesthood on black males of African descent. Church records offer no clear insights into the origins of this practice. Church leaders believed that a revelation from God was needed to alter this practice and prayerfully sought guidance. The revelation came to Church President Spencer W. Kimball and was affirmed to other Church leaders in the Salt Lake Temple on June 1, 1978. The revelation removed all…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…s objects of jest. This approach is analogous to that of the traditionally African-American Krewe of Zulu. Scholars of American Jewish humor often draw parallels with traditions of African-American humor, and the comparison between Krewe du Jieux and the Krewe of Zulu is an easy one. Zulu has a longer and deeper history in the city, originating in a social aid and pleasure club, which is a form of social service organization that emerged to serve…

Two and a Half Men Child Star Calls Show “Filth”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r. It’s fine to notice that you enjoy a type of worship you associate with African American churches. (In point of fact, there is actually not only one African American style of worship, but let’s bracket that.) But when you say, at around 1:20: “I was looking to go to a church with an all-black congregation. I guess you could say I was looking for, like, a black gospel theme? I dunno. I like black people! And uh…[laughter] I’m not afraid to say i…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…obs for local residents who desperately need them. As a faith leader in an African-American congregation with a social gospel history, Jones was deeply involved in that struggle, and it was through that work in DC—a long way, both literally and metaphorically, from Bentonville—that he was connected with OUR Wal-Mart and their campaign for Wal-Mart workers. For him it was an easy decision to get involved and to travel the country, organizing with t…

#TakeAKnee: Race and Religious Violence at the Heart of Trump Attacks on Kaepernick/NFL

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…gion. Religiously supported violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans literally built the country, just as religiously sanctioned violence against wartime enemies including fascists and communists sustained it. Capital punishment, a massive prison industry and a militarized police force maintain the social order. For good and for evil, violence is central to our society. We extol it as patriotic, and it is supported by religious inst…

Evangelical Author on Why Christian Conservatives Supported Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…and equally well established that about ¾ of white evangelicals have voted Republican in the last several presidential elections. So are we overthinking this? Were they always going to vote for Trump simply because they always vote for the Republican? I think that you’re making a good point, which is that there is a degree of essentially unreserved support for the most conservative candidate in any given election. But Donald Trump went beyond what…