Elizabeth Bruenig: "Biden Could Be Our Second Catholic President. Does It Matter?" (9/23/20)

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/opinion/biden-catholic-president-2020.html

Elizabeth Bruenig: "Amy Coney Barrett and the New, Old Anti-Catholicism" (9/26/20)

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-catholic-supreme-court.html

Cambridge Muslim College (CMC) Graduation Ceremony BA (Hons) 2020

https://youtu.be/Pco28qrpm58

Accommodation theology

In a context of oppression, it seems that theology, across religious divisions, fulfills one of two tasks: it either underpins and supports the structures and institutions of oppression or it performs this function in relation to the struggle for liberation. Accommodation theology tries to accommodate and justify the dominant status quo 'with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism. It blesses injustice, canonizes the will of the powerful and reduces the poor to passivity, obedience and apathy' (The Kairos Document 1985, p. 13). It focuses on questions of personal conversion and salvation while it ignores or denies the role which socio-economic structures play in the shaping of personal values.

-Farid Esack, Qur'an, Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression, (Oxford: Oneworld, 1997), p. 7.

Sanya Mansoor in TIME: "‘At the Intersection of Two Criminalized Identities’: Black and Non-Black Muslims Confront a Complicated Relationship With Policing and Anti-Blackness" (9/15/20)

 https://time.com/5884176/islam-black-lives-matter-policing-muslims/

Timothy Keller: "How Do Christians Fit Into the Two-Party System? They Don’t" (9/29/18)

What should the role of Christians in politics be? More people than ever are asking that question. Christians cannot pretend they can transcend politics and simply “preach the Gospel.” Those who avoid all political discussions and engagement are essentially casting a vote for the social status quo. American churches in the early 19th century that did not speak out against slavery because that was what we would now call “getting political” were actually supporting slavery by doing so. To not be political is to be political.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html