Religion Dispatches
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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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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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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Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries…
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Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?
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Over the last 20 years, major American denominations, particularly those with southern origins (such as…
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I walked away after seeing Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade,” with the profound sense that…
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The faith of Jason Collins, who recently came out as the first gay athlete in a major American sport, doesn’t fit the model of culture war conflicts the media expects and the religious right demands of its spokespeople.
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