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Politics/Law, Sarah Morice-BrubakerMarch 6, 2013

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

The real story will bring you even more joy than the Daily Show bit.

Books, CultureOctober 16, 2012

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before.

(A)theologiesSeptember 10, 2012

Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Our job is to keep separate the spiritual and temporal, church-state, metaphysical and physical where all the nuclear weapons are. We’re doing this in the technologically most lethal organization ever created by humankind—our U.S. military.

CultureAugust 17, 2011

Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant

By Rosetta E. Ross

I will not go to see the movie The Help because already I have encountered and regularly encounter enough messages suggesting history is made only by white agency. I will not go to see the movie The Help because I do not wish to view yet another production that tells me, a black woman, it is all about whiteness.

Sexuality/GenderJune 28, 2011

The Battle Beneath the Battle: Do Gay People Exist?

By Jay Michaelson

There’s a cognitive dissonance in our religious and political debates about homosexuality: it’s the only cultural struggle I can think of where one’s very existence is routinely denied by political opponents.

Candace Chellew-HodgeNovember 8, 2010

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Why are gays increasingly voting against their interests?

CultureOctober 20, 2010

Whose God in America?

By Marian Ronan

I must admit, I was pretty excited when I heard about God in America. My husband and I are big PBS fans. As the show proceeded, however, I became increasingly annoyed. We moved from the Franciscans to the Puritans, with John Winthrop ostensibly treating Anne Hutchinson as badly as the Franciscans had the Pueblos. But it seems there were no indigenous people at all in New England in those days—or else they and the Puritans got on extremely well.