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William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.

“If anyone can look at the way religion has treated and treats women and not be pissed off, they have something wrong with them. So, yes, I intend on pissing off every misogynist homophobic religious conservative and/or empire-building neo-conservative imperialist supporter of our permanent war economy stuck in the ideological straightjacket that I used to so proudly wear.”

While the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.

About twenty miles outside of Green Bay and over a mile from even the smallest town, a tiny sign at a remote intersection points visitors toward Chapel Drive, site of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, site of the only approved site of a Marian apparition in the U.S.

The next best thing to a living, breathing Muslim is an approximation of one—that is, the silver screen. Why not? Movies explore the lives and experiences of Muslims in a format that can be watched as easily at home as on the train. Plus, a lineup of cool movies, foreign and domestic, will only make you, your friends, or your community look intimidatingly more sophisticated.

Sure we are supposed to pray for our enemies, but for some Christians, Democrats are the enemy you dare not pray for, the party you dare not join. And the prejudice goes both ways.

While it’s good that Obama won’t have this rotten apple in his administration it does nothing about the tree.

But even while the language and the tone of anti-gay evangelical groups is beginning to shift, the reality is that while the language of anti- bullying has been adopted by groups like Focus on the Family, the theological and ideological currents that produce the reality of anti- gay bullying remain unquestioned.

Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.

People kept asking, “Why would you go to a Christian school if you’re gay?” The question is unfair. So many factors—funding, family, a deep connection to the religious culture—could place a student at Harding. While more and more students may show up their first year of college with self-awareness about sexual identity, as they do at the public university where I teach, I know it is difficult to come to terms with yourself if you grow up in fundamentalist Christian culture. Many of us come out while in college; at Harding finding ourselves in a world in which something fundamental about ourselves is a category of silence at best, more likely a category of condemnation and stigmatization.