As Israel prepares for a likely ground invasion, a debate is unfolding on the Right regarding the nature and scope of U.S. support for Israel — a debate exposing deep fault lines in the MAGA coalition, and bringing ascendant varieties…
Wisconsin Artist Spotlights The Jewishness Of Jesus
As an artist, Clara Maria Goldstein explores her dual religious roots by portraying the Jesus of her Christian childhood as the Jew he undoubtedly was. She lives and paints in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support
Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans. Eighty-eight years later, the United States is facing rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology – including two neo-Nazi…
Palestinian Americans decry demonization in media amid rising fear of hate crimes
Thousands of miles from the crisis in Gaza, Muslims and Palestinians in the U.S. are reporting a wave of Islamophobic incidents that, for many, feels terrifyingly familiar.
Israel-Hamas is not a religious war and this is not your rapture
All of this—real lives taken, real worlds shattered, real threats of ongoing mass murder and death—is part of an incredibly complex geopolitical reality; of settler colonialism, land occupation, political pressures, and a long history of violence. What it is not is a holy…
Want to fix America’s woes? Start by getting to know your neighbors, researcher says
Seth Kaplan, a researcher at Johns Hopkins who studies fragile states around the world, argues that rebuilding social capital— including religious congregations — can help address some of the more pressing social problems.
War between Israel and Hamas raises fears about rising US hostility
A fatal stabbing in Illinois, a gun pointed at protesters in Pennsylvania, vandalism at synagogues and harassment of staff at a Palestinian restaurant all are raising fears that the war between Israel and Hamas is sparking violence in the United States.
Russian forces occupy seventh Baptist church in Ukraine
Russian occupying forces seized another Baptist church in Ukraine, and a military court in Russia imprisoned a Baptist who refused to fight in Ukraine on religious grounds, Forum 18 News reported.
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
As perceptively noted by James Boyd White, religion is difficult to talk about because it speaks to a way of experiencing life that affirms ineffable or mysterious links between self and others, truth and uncertainty, the real and the spiritual.