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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…Hillel, a student-led movement that aims to change Hillel International’s policy of refusing to partner with or host organizations or speakers who, among other things, “delegitimize, demonize, or apply a double standard to Israel.” Open Hillel calls that policy “counterproductive to creating real conversations about Israel on campus.” Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman of the Reconstructionist congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, Wisconsin, and likewise…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…him to do. But he’s a pragmatist not a visionary, and in this his foreign policy resembles his economic policy: it’s designed in its public presentation to appeal to key voting demographics, but essentially values-neutral and centered on defending and promoting the interests of large institutions that reward loyalty. We’ve seen this institutional loyalty-centered approach to foreign policy from LDS people in decision-making positions before. It w…

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e which admits as much, “We never were guilty of a more masterly stroke of policy, than in moving that Mr. Duché might read prayers.” Policy, not piety. For those who wish to portray the United States as a Christian nation, the story ends with Duché’s prayer and never grasps that this was a political stunt. But this is when things just start getting juicy. The British captured Philadelphia in 1777 and Duché spent one night in jail before turning c…

Protest Greets the Honoring of Rev. H. Eddie Fox at Emory’s Candler School of Theology

By John Blevins

…t of the Church today. It’s time for Emory University to clarify the tension between its own non-discrimination policy and that of the United Methodist Church. And when Candler decides to come down on the side of honoring denominational policy in violation of university policy, it’s time for the university to break its silence and respond. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers, coders, interns, and editors. And wi…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…is “common-sense” personal financial advice translates into God’s economic policy for the nation. That darker read on Ramsey’s rhetorical reach is especially pertinent as the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives engages in denial of the default crisis, demands a nearly complete dismantling of government functions beyond the military, preaches that progressive taxation is tantamount to theft, and persists in schemes to privatize all asp…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…rate economic disadvantages that can be traced directly to federal housing policy. Remedying that is an enormous task, and would be very expensive. But we need to understand the history of this public policy to see how we, using our federal, state, and local governments, created the conditions that we see in Ferguson and in other low-income African American ghettos today. A major argument of your “The Making of Ferguson” is that we cannot excuse p…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…adquarters does not represent us,” she said, echoing the hashtags this new policy has inspired, such as #notmyiv and #intervarsitydobetter. Behind the scenes some students are organizing prayer and fasting strikes, calling for the policy to be revoked. Organizers tell me that they aren’t asking InterVarsity to change its theological position; they just don’t want staff to be fired for privately disagreeing with it. They argue that InterVarsity is…

Is Romney’s Foreign Policy Problem a Product of his Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…that faith has played virtually no role in shaping his approach to foreign policy issues? There have been serious foreign policy thinkers in Mormonism, like J. Reuben Clark (1871–1961), Coolidge’s undersecretary of state, whose memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine contributed the development of the “Good Neighbor Policy” scaling back US military intervention in Latin America. What would happen if Romney took a cue from Clark, and other foreign polic…

Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space

By Peter Laarman

…rine Band playing some of the same “airs” it played for Thomas Jefferson in 1800. Compared to royal coronations, American inaugurations are remarkably simple affairs. But our ceremonies retain their own majesty and are capable of projecting a strong sense that something sacred is happening. Our inaugurations have always reflected a mashup of civil religion—invocations of our secular sacred texts, appeals to mystic chords of national memory—and bit…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…it has to be paperback. The ACLU is suing the jail for its sola scriptura policy. A Muslim inmate in Nebraska is suing Lancaster County because he was served pork while in custody. Senate candidate Sharon Angle’s former pastor denounced her opponent Harry Reid’s Mormonism, calling the Latter-day Saints a cult. Meanwhile, Angle herself warned that Muslim law was taking over cities in the United States. Posting about religion may lose you Facebook…