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Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…, my pastor uncle, who is fond of blowing the shofar, commented out of the blue on how good it was to see someone, namely Putin, “finally standing up to the gays.” Putin’s Russia had recently passed a law banning “propaganda to minors of non-traditional sexual relationships,” something that horrified me but that my uncle evidently found laudable. Benjamin Netanyahu also gets to be an honorary strongman for Jesus, though, like Trump, he isn’t an ev…

Only The Good Die Young: The Moral Universe of Game of Thrones

By George Schmidt

…s call by her ultimate concern disrupts the virtual space generated by the blue-lipped warlocks of Qarth (known as the Undying), which allows her to sublimate her egoistic impulses and leave behind the illusion of her breathing husband and child whom she could have chosen to stay with. Having been told that entering the House of the Undying to rescue her dragons was impossible, Daenerys’ faith in “her own magic” and her love for the “only children…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…m,” secretly videotaped his journey to Mecca on his iPhone and other small phones. “I was terrified because they reserve the death penalty for people like me,” Sharma said. Several times he had his equipment seized and video files deleted by authorities. But he persevered with both his spiritual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia, who would feel they…

The Suburban Shift Putting Republicans in Peril

By Murali Balaji

…ot wholly prepared—to deal with some of the demographic changes. A growing number of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim voters, for example, represent the parts of New Jersey that once boasted white, Christian, college-educated voters. While they’re not all Democrats, it’s easy to see how an administration that’s doubled down on xenophobia has imperiled Republicans’ outreach efforts. Similarly, in places like Orange County, California, the rise of Asian non-C…

Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…rump’s economy, and by extension his re-election? That’s content to allow “blue states” to go bankrupt, and more than a little happy to use the crisis as a convenient excuse to crack down on immigration, which then turns into a convenient way of distracting from the high priest’s failure to keep his followers safe? The beliefs of this form of civil religion seem to amount to “Pres. Trump can do no wrong” and “Screw the weak, I want a haircut.” The…

Forget About #HotJesus, Material Objects Speak Loudly in Son of God

By Paul Harvey

…of the Christ, Mel Gibson digitally altered actor Jim Caviezel’s eyes from blue to brown and had him wear a prosthetic nose to make him look more Jewish, and hence more like Jesus. The androgynous and almost albino devil confused many critics, while Jesus’s mother Mary was dressed to look like a Catholic nun. Before that, the 1961 version of The King of Kings was mocked incessantly for the boyish-looking Jeffrey Hunter as Christ who, despite being…

How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion

By Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

…us “a beautiful, [red and white] striped, flowing caftan” and “a midnight blue hijab that is outlined in fifty silver stars.” She’s insisting “you can be Middle Eastern, you can be Muslim, and you can still be American.” In the immortal words of Latrice Royale: she said THAT. As Jackie Cox swanned down the runway trailing her patriotic caftan behind her, guest judge, dinosaur Zaddy, and Woody Allen defender Jeff Goldblum let out an “oooooh” or a…

I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me

By Deirdre Sugiuchi

…her; as well as the “official” Christian flag with the red cross against a blue background. However horrifying I find the spectacle of white Christians storming the Capitol in hopes of keeping Donald Trump in power, I do not find it at all surprising, because I grew up in the Christian nationalist movement. Growing up I came to understand firsthand that many Christian nationalists view people who don’t practice their form of Christianity as illegi…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…e her campaign. I’ll be weighing in more on these iterations of postracial blues and on other issues of race and religion throughout this election season. ______________________________ #BlackVotesMatter Paul Harvey Professor of history at University of Colorado and author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Commentators have seized on two data points that suggest much about the contest between Hillary Rodham Cli…

Fulfilling the Dream? Complicating the Narrative

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ion. As philosopher Eddie Glaude suggests in his latest book In A Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and Politics of Black America, we must move beyond traditional vocabularies of struggle in order to assess and offset contemporary and complicated modes of racial injustice. In a post-Obama era, we cannot allow the protest language of those who lived in a segregated society to conceptually flatten or intellectually seize the creative capacity of the post-ci…