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November 8, 2011
Why Jesus Would Occupy Wall Street

Theologian Aaron Saari draws intriguing comparisons between the aims of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement grows, an increasing number of Republican legislators and media personalities are claiming that the members are overwhelmingly anti-Semitic. From Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck to Bill Kristol, the charge of anti-Semitism is becoming a common trope.[i]

July 29, 2011
The Bigoted Blogosphere - And a Sign of Hope

By mere chance, Faith and the Common Good finds the blogosphere is full of anti-Muslim bigots during the same week that TPC faces Islamophobia firsthand.

By a twist of fate, today's list of religion headlines from Faith in Public Life is full of notes about the same Islamophobia that TPC encountered firsthand this week.

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A Blogosphere of Bigots
By Jostein Gaarder and Thomas Hylland Eriksen
New York Times, Opinion, July 28, 2011

June 17, 2011
The GOP’s Problem with Islam

The June 13 Republican presidential debate has raised the spectre of religious and civil persecution against U.S. Muslims. Progressive Christians must lead the resistance against any political assault on the citizenship and loyalty of American Muslims.

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested on charges of parading without a permit, sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama,  and began reading an open letter published in the local newspaper.

Titled “A Time for Unity,” the missive, signed by eight local white clergy members, urged Dr. King and his fellow “outsiders” to cease their efforts toward integration. They accused the Civil Rights marchers of being agitators promoting the possibility of violence in Alabama.