Religion Dispatches
Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.
Read MoreThere is a direct line from tribal epistemology to dehumanization that can blind even those religious people who claim that “God is love.”
Read MoreFor those confident in the coming of Judgment Day or in the frictionless workings out of karma, there is naught to be done but wait for history to unfold its glorious purposes.
Read MoreIf American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.
Read MoreIt’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.
Read MoreWhile the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered.
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Nothing like a Handmaid’s Tale revolution is going to happen. Probably.
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Years ago, back in south-central Pennsylvania, I heard one of those friend-of-a-friend stories that seem…
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There is no dispute that, by and large, the Christian right loves Donald Trump. The…
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There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and…
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