Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia
Even as advocates point to growing Islamophobia as the cause of the attack, the larger issue seems to be white Christian nationalism.
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The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’
Once again, the Women’s March has been derailed due to the national leadership’s connections to Louis Farrakhan. But Jews have had their own Farrakhans. And many Jews certainly have not treated them, related to them, or engaged with them as they expect American Muslims and African Americans to now treat Farrakhan.
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Anti-Immigrant Fervor Is a Part of America’s Story
Throughout our history there have been moral panics about the dangers posed by people from disparate religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds.
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Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological
His hollow performances of Christian piety are so illegible because Trump’s object of worship isn’t the God of Abraham, or even the United States. To Trump, land borders themselves are holy, worth honoring with menacing shrines and protecting with the blood of innocents.
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The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity
History reminds us again and again that it’s always been easier to believe in miracles, in virgin births and atoning deaths, than something so simple and basic as human solidarity.
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The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation
Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?
“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries…
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#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity
Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?
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