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A Color-Blind America? Don't Fall For The Okey-Doke
Barack Obama tried to run a color-blind campaign, and he won. But don't believe the hype: an Obama victory doesn't mean an end to racism in our culture, or that we should blithely forget the history of racial injustice.
Impossible Possibilities: Obama and Power
Is President Obama destined to disappoint progressives? Our columnist channels theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reminding us of the human potential for both good and evil, and offering a pragmatic approach...
If we allow the progressive movement to be reactive without first building the shared values and beliefs that make such actions sustainable, then our house will turn out to have been built upon sand. And when the electoral rains come, we will be washed away...
Living to See the Day: Civil Rights Leaders and Obama
Forty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, veterans of the Civil Rights era still expected that they would not live to see an African American elected to the presidency. But iconic figures like C.T. Vivian supported Obama and believed that the arc was bending toward justice.
History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election
A distinguished scholar and minister reflects on the persistence of racism in US political history, on the role of religion in political culture, and on the fulfillment of long-awaited vision of a world community built on justice and freedom.
Religious leaders have joined the protest against workplace raids, urging the government to implement a rational and humane approach to immigration reform.
RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy
His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.
Connecticut legalizes gay marriage; Religious voters favor Obama; Blame the Jews for Wall Street; Gay marriage ‘worse than radical Islam,’; McCain to Gays: Thanks, but no thanks.
Dispatches from the Borderlands: "They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!"
The scapegoating of immigrants is a global problem, one that flares up in different countries, depending on local circumstances. We must not imagine that the United States is immune to such violence.
The United States has exported its contradictory and confusing HIV prevention strategy to Africa: Abstain, Be Faithful, Condoms (ABC). Herewith a modest proposal to reconcile Christianity, identity, and HIV prevention...
Dispatches from the Election: John McCain, Great White Nope
Friday's historic debate in Mississippi showcased the McCain campaign's election strategy: Talk down to Obama and play to the racist element in the Republican Party.
Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church
In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?
RD10Q: MLK and the Rhetoric of Freedom
A social movement comes into being when a group of people come to see themselves as sharing a common identity, a common story, and a common destination. How did Dr. King's rhetoric inform the consciousness of the civil rights era?
Can't Get Away
In which our columnist on faith and worker justice takes a family vacation — just a few weeks before Labor Day — and takes the occasion to reflect on workplace conditions across the American labor landscape...
A major union's Labor Day concession to Muslim workers sparks anti-immigrant outrage in a Tennessee town...
The Beijing Opening Ceremonies had an odd way of ignoring history, politics, and the West itself...
Gay Marriage: Religious Right Cranks Up the Fear
California's Proposition 8 would overturn the state's Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage — right wing religious groups are girding for the battle they are calling "the Armageddon of the culture war."...
Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State
When the modern Olympic Games were revived they were imbued with a religious and ritualistic significance. How that will be handled by Communist China remains to be seen.
A rural town in Iowa is the home of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, a facility that–while already under scrutiny for its poor treatment of workers and animals–was recently the scene of the largest immigration workplace raid in history...
Op-Ed: Liberal Hatred
When do seemingly manageable ideological differences within a functioning democracy become something more treacherous?