If Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said
I hope Rep. Omar is able to move forward after this unfortunate, second charge of anti-Semitism; to do less social media and more of what she was elected to do: legislate.
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‘When I Spoke in Tongues’ Points the Way Out of Fundamentalist Christianity
Research shows that individuals who leave Christian fundamentalism often experience a crisis. In her memoir Jessica Wilbanks shares her difficulties, including exploring her bisexuality, recreational drugs, and premarital relations.
Read MoreIf Pelosi Is Guilty, So’s Jesus
Nancy Pelosi has come under fire because her “favorite Bible verse” isn’t actually in the Bible. But there’s a long and storied history of misquoting the Bible, including a couple of figures you’d least expect.
Read MoreVatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline
With no women, lay people, or survivors invited, nothing will change and everyone will go home feeling righteous about having “done” something. The something will be more prayer than policy, more story than analysis, more circling the wagons than opening the doors to the light of justice.
Read MoreAmerican Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem
While second-generation missionary Steve Campbell faces potential genocide charges, it’s really Brazil’s new right wing president and his evangelical base that may be the target audience for these efforts.
Read MoreThe Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’
Not only are claims that the religious left is “on the rise” as old as the contemporary religious right itself, but the framing of the religious left may actually further enable the religious right.
Read MoreThe Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story
Far too many of our self-anointed progressive saviors speak as though Trump’s overthrow will make everything good again. A bargain-priced plastic surgeon might want to convince us that removing a large carbuncle will render our face entirely beautiful, but can that kind of pitch really be trusted?
Read MoreHeavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem
A museum’s charge is to educate, so I’m left wondering whether the curators were afraid of offending their Vatican partners or whether they were simply unwilling to take the religious content seriously.
Read More‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy
Historian Paul Hanebrink discusses the origin and uses of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth as a grand conspiracy that inspired the Holocaust and how crucial parts of it survived under the umbrella of “Judeo-Christian civilization.”
Read MoreChanges in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway
It’s gaslighting, moral cowardice, and yet another betrayal to deny women’s anger and pain, only to go and make some of the changes women have sought while still explicitly denying that women ever had any sort of legitimate complaint.
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