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How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

…ned. “WSJ: More Ben Carson Narratives Can’t Be Confirmed,” reads the sober Newsmax headline. “More stories from Ben Carson’s past that no one can authenticate,” Hot Air reports dispassionately. As Paul Waldman writes in an astute piece at the Washington Post, this scrutiny of the accuracy of Carson’s autobiography tells us little about what kind of president he’d be. But Carson’s wild claims, say, about the purpose of the pyramids, the origins of…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…wish Jenkins had drawn out some of the racial dynamics that lurk in these stories. Bradley Onishi, for example, has pointed out the ways in which a single-minded focus on abortion serves the cause of white Christian privilege. Refusal to accept vaccines derived, however remotely, from fetal cells might be an act of principled opposition, in other words—or it could be a convenient excuse for people who aren’t going to get vaccinated no matter what…

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cago (1933-1934), then took a lectureship at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York (1935-1940). He was then appointed as director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art at the end of the Second World War (1945-1946). It was in the aftermath of that apocalyptic period that Sweeney (and others) began to reflect more explicitly on art’s potential role in the work of spiritual renewal. Brennan cites “the thirst for tr…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…omberg were betraying public trust in their profiling of Muslims. Now, the New York Times is reporting that not only is the NYPD illegally spying on Muslims, but they’re using a discredited Islamophobic film to train their officers. These activities continue to demonstrate several structural issues in the NYPD and their treatment of “minority” communities in NY—names like Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo are still on the lips of New Yorkers, decades…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ired by the ambitious, gorgeous photography of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project which chronicles the denizens of New York City in all of their diverse, vivid, daily glory. In other words, Pembroke wasn’t out to create a maudlin page of woe. He was out to chronicle the quotidian. In doing so, he inadvertently created community through his chronicle of the anguished, humorous trial-and-error of parenting. This is not just a dancing cat b…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…have to admit, that could apply to all of us in the old days. We had the truth, the only truth, and to hell (literally) with everyone else. We were twenty, and I forgive us. Twenty-year-olds have to be myopic to survive. The big picture can be potentially paralyzing to those whose brains have only recently gelled into maturity. But I turned 30 and finally 40 with this same mindset. In the end, I didn’t persevere. It wasn’t that the seed was snatc…

Don’t Be Tooken In by Kimmy Schmidt‘s Cult

By Megan Goodwin

…ways, but its take on religion is less provocative than it is, as Kimmy’s New York roommate Titus Andromedon would say, basic. Fey and Carlock are reenacting a tired, false dichotomy: women versus religion. Religion is not a source of comfort, or a system of meaning-making, or a mode for women’s leadership and authority in Kimmy Schmidt. Religion is belief, and it is a mistake—one that women make far too often. Kimmy Schmidt delights in overplayi…

How Men’s Rights Activists Are Finding Unlikely Allies in New Atheism: #MeToo, the Manosphere, and the “Church of Feminism”

By Caroline Matas

…gued that “mild date rape” is not as bad as “violent date rape,” compared drunk women being raped to drunk drivers, and sarcastically noted that “amazingly, males have rights too.” While these men do not represent the views of all atheists—who, after all, identify with a variety of labels, political ideologies, and social movements—they are lauded figures of a particular brand of atheism that has increasingly aligned itself with groups claiming to…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…stand up for gays and lesbians.” It was not supposed to be that way in the new Ukraine. The February revolution was aimed, first and foremost, at the ouster of the notoriously corrupt president Viktor Yanukovych and his criminal cabal. But there was also hope among many of the revolution’s liberal supporters that Ukraine would choose a pro-Western European course, not just politically, but culturally as well — one that would include a space for th…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…names of those for whom prayers are being offered) flicker in the nave of New York City’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an evensong service in December 2014. Photo by Cathleen Falsani. It’s not about trying to come up with some new, hip way (like fog machines) to get the young kids to come to church. It’s not about trying to make Christianity hip or put coffee shops in the lobby. That’s fine but I don’t think that’s what makes…