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Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…toricity of biblical narrative and prophecy. In 1953, only a year after he left the presidency, Truman affirmed explicitly his biblical understanding of the United States’ recognition of Israel. In a conversation at New York City’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism, Truman was introduced as “the man who helped create the State of Israel.” Truman said in response. “What do you mean helped create? I am Cyrus,…

“You’re F*cked”: How Pouncing on Mistakes Helps the Right Escape Moral Accountability

By Jonathan Malesic

…. “Please do not shoot me,” he asks. As he crawls, he’s trying to keep his left foot crossed over his right foot, exactly as the cop told him to. Then he makes another mistake, and the police, true to their word, immediately gun him down. The video was evidence in the murder trial of former Mesa, Arizona police officer Philip Brailsford, who shot Daniel Shaver five times in the back. Brailsford was acquitted earlier this month. The shooting itself…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…am boasted that the agreement “did not stray from previous agreements that left abortion to be decided by national legislation, and expectedly does not broach the subject of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights,” saying that it had been “sanitized” of “terms that have been used by the US bureaucracy to include LGBT rights.” Ambassador Usman Sarki of Nigeria, who vocally denounced any attempt to impose LGBT rights on his country, and d…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ote last week about this growing crisis: The real scandal is the fact that evangelical Protestants divorce at rates at least as high as the rest of the public. Needless to say, this creates a significant credibility crisis when evangelicals then rise to speak in defense of marriage. While Mohler is not about to drop his crusade against same-sex marriage and abortion, he does finally admit one thing—divorce is more dangerous that gay marriage: But…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…ally joined by some liberal Jews and liberal Protestants. But moderate and evangelical Protestants? Among the white ones, not so much. White evangelicals have even been known to create their own entities (e.g., the Christian Labor Association) specifically for the purpose of thwarting labor organizing drives. No one should forget that the powerful and secretive fundamentalist organization called The Family had its roots in anti-unionism. My collea…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…as “someone who says they are politically neutral but who usually punches left while sympathizing with the right.” Reactionary centrism, in other words, is a conservative ideological stance that sees and presents itself as transcendent of ideology. Such an approach is clearly at work among white Buddhists who claim to be apolitical while mobilizing conservative assumptions and strategies to delegitimate anti-racist work in Buddhism as “ideologica…

After Michael Jerryson (1974-2021) Nobody Will Ever Look at Buddhism the Same Way

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…uggling with ALS (the dreaded neurological Lou Gehrig’s disease), Jerryson left a rich corpus of writings, including nine books. Among them were his solely authored works, including Buddhist Fury, and If You Meet the Buddha on the Road (quoting the famous line attributed to a Chinese Buddhist monk that ends with the words, “kill him”). He also edited the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, and the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (co…