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Though many religious leaders have sought to turn Mike Brown’s death into a movement for social change, others have taken the position that Brown was a criminal whose actions invited police violence…

In November, while governor Jay Nixon declared the controversy in Ferguson to be a state of emergency, another racially charged protest was under way in the Netherlands. On November 15 the town of…

Chalk up the lack of religion in this post to the flurry of planning, cooking and binging demanded by the American god of Thanksgiving. To its aftermath, actually. Taking a break from the regular news…

If there were a Venn diagram showing the intersection of expertise of reality television and Catholic nuns, I would be sitting right in the middle of it. In addition to spending the past three years…

Why are authorities responding to the protesters in Ferguson with tanks and tear gas, as if they are a threat to the American way of life? Well, perhaps because they are. I believe that the protests…

For more than twenty years I’ve supported workers who exercise their rights to organize to improve conditions in their workplaces. Workers care about their wages and benefits, but what usually moves…

America’s racist god requires black people’s blood to atone for the sins committed by its followers. This time, the blood shed in sacrifice to this god of white supremacy was Michael Brown’s. Darren…

Like so many others, I was struck by Darren Wilson’s use of the word “demon” to describe Michael Brown in his testimony to the grand jury. But it wasn’t just the officer’s description of Brown as a…

Last week, the Texas Board of Education approved the use of controversial public school history textbooks that university professors charged “exaggerate and even invent claims about the influence of…

At the Zionist Organization of America’s gala Sunday night, Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson bestowed an award on Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. In his remarks, Hagee…