Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The U.S. Has a White Christian Problem, and It's Imperiling American Democracy: My Commentary on New PRRI Report re: American Attitudes Towards Immigrants

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Today, Public Religion Research Group (PRRI) published results of a study it has just done entitled " Are Immigrants a Threat? Most Ame...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

"This Is Happening in our Country Today and Is Being Done in All of Our Names": An Advent Sermon by Lisa Koop

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Christian Trump supporters, take note. https://t.co/xn3kCgkjaA — Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 24, 2019 I'm happy to be ab...
Friday, August 9, 2019

"Responding with the Biggest Ever Anti-Immigrant Raid to the First Ever Anti-Latino, Anti-Immigrant Gun Massacre in This Country: This Will Be History"

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Regardless of whatever they say and whatever comes out of the president's mouth, this IS the story of how our government responded t...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

SIX HUNDRED ICE Agents Haul Away 680 Workers as Man in White House Heads to El Paso: What "Pro-Life" White Christians Have Wrought

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HAPPENING NOW: In Forrest, Mississippi where one of the #ICE raids happened nearby Children of those who were arrested are left alone in...
Monday, August 5, 2019

"We Must Call the El Paso Shooting What It Is: Trump-Inspired Terrorism" — Commentary on White Supremacist Roots of Recent Mass Shootings

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El Paso Shooter: Not an immigrant. Parkland Shooter: Not an immigrant. Tree Of Life Shooter: Not an immigrant. Las Vegas Shooter:...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

"We Are Watching as a President Returns Naked Racism to the White House": Commentary

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The graphic above is the lead headline on Huffington Post  this morning .  My commentary about it:
Thursday, June 27, 2019

"If Evangelical Christians Stood Up for These Children…"

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If evangelical Christians stood up for these children, things could change in the camps very quickly.  ~ Caitlin Flanagan, " Ch...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Commentary re: Religious Issues, Hot Off Press: Catholic Abuse, Evangelicals & Trump, LGBTQ People & Church, U.S. Catholic Resistance to Pope Francis

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" Whom Would Jesus Shoot? ," Karen Fiorito From the graphic above through the tweets and article excerpts below, some valuab...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Tweets About the Bishops' Retreat: "Secrecy, Hypocrisy, and an Arrogant Refusal to Be Held Accountable"

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Things are likely to be tense when the US Catholic bishops meet at their closed-door retreat near Chicago this week. The credibility of t...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Putting Christ Back Into Christmas: The Death of Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Donald Trump as Defender of "the" Faith: "These Children Are Barefoot. In Diapers. Choking on Tear Gas"

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Huffington Post Lead Headline, 25 November 2018 Mike Allen, " Franklin Graham: Trump 'defends the faith '": ...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Internet Responds to POTUS' Personal Theologian Paula White & Her Clownish Theology of White Nationalism: "Do You Not Read Your Bible, Sis?"

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. @Paula_White - who commits theological malpractice with nearly every word - advises the president of the United States. Where did she...

#HelloICE? On Laughter as Good Medicine for the Addictive Drug of White Nationalism

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Hello, ICE? I need to report a dangerous illegal in my church. He breaks the law all the time — heals on the Sabbath, sits and eats with...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Linda Gordon's Second Coming of the KKK: "Klan's Mobilization of Evangelical Ministers Foreshadowed — and Probably Helped Generate — the Entry of Christian Right Preachers into Conservative Politics"

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I've just finished reading Linda Gordon's  The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Polit...
Monday, June 18, 2018

"Pro-Life" White U.S. Christians Don't "Risk" Being Implicated in the Horrors Unfolding on the Nation's Borders: They Are Directly Responsible for Those Horrors

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Huffington Post lead headline, morning of 15 June 2018. Charles Camosy, " You Can't Be Pro-Life and Against Immigrant Chil...
Friday, June 15, 2018

"The Bible Is Trending Because It Was Just Used to Justify Ripping Babies from Their Mothers’ Arms and Putting Them in Interment Camps"

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Because it needs to be documented: think of how documentation now allows us to see Catholic religious leaders in Germany and Austria, C...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Quote for Day: Michael Gerson on Selective Biblical Inerrancy of Christian Republicans

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Michael Gerson, " Trump Exposes the Hypocrisy of Christian Republicans ":
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Ireland Apparently Knocks Down Abortion Ban; Children Being Taken from Parents by ICE; Pope Francis Does Usual Two-Step with LGBTQ Humanity and LGBTQ Lives: My Commentary

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What does it mean to be pro-life if you defend the life of a child in the womb, but not the life of a child on the border? — James Martin...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Week's-End Commentary: "The Judgment of God Has Come"; "The American Gospel Is Garbage. Something Toxic and Perilous Is Going on in Our Churches. Save Your Soul"

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Phillip Bump, " The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? Evangelicals ": Pew...