Glenn Beck’s ‘Social Justice’ Heresies
Though some conservatives worry that Beck’s anti-social justice rants make them look uncaring they all share a loathing of government.
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Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology
Last Tuesday, Glenn Beck dedicated an entire episode to attacking liberation theology and one of its greatest proponents, James Cone. RD speaks to the president of Union Theological Seminary to talk about liberation theology, hate, and the longterm prospects for progressive Christianity.
Read MoreGlenn Beck, Victimology and Liberation Theology
Can you say the Jews killed Jesus on a national radio show and not expect to be fired?
Read MorePlaces of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church
When it comes to subtle racism and able-ism in church communities, “even very well-meaning dominant groups are oblivious to their own power.”
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Arizona is the Hispanic Alabama
Arizona’s Republican governor and many conservatives may not be aware of the extent to which immigration cuts across religious groups—liberal and conservative. If draconian measures like SB 1070 take hold and opposition gains steam, Republicans may see their 2010 and 2012 hopes evaporate in the summer sun.
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Liberation Theology is Alive and Well
It wasn’t on CNN, but last month hundreds of theologians, activists, and indigenous people came together in Brazil to envision a new world; the gathering stressed diversity and sustainability, migration, and climate change.
Read MoreSwiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism
Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle.
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