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The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…adheads were anathema to my chosen subculture of socially conscious punks. East Bay punks were aggro and in your face about social justice, feminism, human rights; Deadheads, in our eyes, were too stoned and obsessed with their god Jerry to care. Sometimes, I’d be out in Berkeley at night, coming out of a punk show in some basement or garage, and I’d hear the tail end of a Dead set drifting down from the Greek, always, always, always with the same…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…not out of respect for our state’s political history of welcome, then at least with reverence to the many faith traditions in Texas that offer friendship and hospitality to the stranger. As with many of you, I am sure, faith was a central piece of my upbringing. In Longview, I learned the value of welcome when the Baptist church down the road from my house had a bus ministry that picked me up every week for Sunday School and worship service. In S…

《诺亚方舟》，保守派为何愤怒？

By Dan Mathewson

…lightened by them. Perhaps it will spark a desire, among those in both the East and the West, to share stories and engage in meaningful dialogue about the role of religion. Please read, share, and leave feedback in comments. – Shuang “Sherry” Liang 作者：Dan Mathewson 达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基的《诺亚方舟：创世之旅》，已成为永不消停的文化战争的最新角斗场。上映一周多来，有关它所引发的争议的报道终于令人欣慰地要接近饱和状态了。我相信，只需稍微关注这场争论，你就能发现已听过无数次的内容了：保守派基督徒对[请插入流行词]“很生气”。不论是格莱美颁奖礼（集体婚礼中有同志新人）、美国艺术娱乐电台、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森（从事科学传播出名的美国天文学…

Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

By Peter Laarman

…t to let eyes of one’s neighbors be averted to unjust suffering, and (not least) to expose those who perpetrate and benefit from injustice, along with the complicit civil rulers (politicians) and the compliant priests whose connivance only adds to the injustice. Not that a true prophet takes any pleasure from the duty of calling oppressors and their enablers to account. Knowing that such calling out will inevitably stir enmity and resentment, the…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…Venezuela, Mexico, Israel, Iran, Germany, Ukraine, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Yemen, and those faceless “migrants” coming from countries where, according to Trump, violence is actually down (due, we’re left to assume, to their departure). You see, Harris touted that there were no “American military boots on the ground around the world,” as though the US doesn’t have a whopping 750 military bases in at least 80 countries around the world and doe…

It’s Time To Ordain Women—Again

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rgument must be made that these were (or were not) “real” ordinations. At least some churches in the East have decided that the ordinations of women deacons were “real.” For Roman Catholics, the jury on that question is still out. I saw recently that Paulist Press, your publisher, provided an opportunity for readers to buy copies for the US Catholic bishops. Do you expect that they’ll read the book? Phyllis Zagano (PZ): I think they will. My own b…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…ontroversy will “have a silver lining with more and more people seeking to better understand each other.” But full-blown understanding might be too much to ask, as people have been steeped in escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric over the past few months. A local Jacksonville public radio station program featuring interfaith leaders elicited a range of perspectives from callers. Some said they planned to go to Gainesville with fire extinguishers to make…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…judging by the progress of things, some parts of the planet are doing much better than we are. This may then make for new alliances between the Next Islamists and the West (so long as the West can break out of the thick teleology that demands we see the Muslim world as backwards and hostile.) But if America ignores options for trade and commerce in place of suspicion and hectoring, we empower Russia, China, and our own slow obsolescence. For China…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…onsider it an embarrassment that there isn’t more goodwill and cooperation between religious communities and the nonreligious. There have been at least nine additional attacks on American Muslims and Sikhs in just the last couple of weeks since the gurdwara shooting, so no community can excuse their silence any longer. We can disagree about the veracity of religious claims, but I worry that these disagreements lead some atheists away from defendin…

How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

By Peter Laarman

…suit of private gain and the exploitative merchant capitalism of the Dutch East Indian Company. Keddie offers a good answer to those who claim to be puzzled by the marriage between pro-business conservatives and religious conservatives. Keddie argues that Arminianism was foundational to the formation of the classical liberalism that was then much advanced by John Locke, by far the most influential figure in the background of early American thinkin…