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Thinking Theologically About Wisconsin Union Conflict

By Daniel Schultz

…edom Coalition issued an e-mail blast calling on supporters to “Stand with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,” but I consider Reed and his cronies about as religious as Avril Lavigne is punk.) Now, on to the theological stuff. I think there are two inseparable points to make here. The first is that faith* must speak to material needs. Many people would like church to be about nothing but airy, happy spirituality. Unfortunately, that’s not supported…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin

By Gary Laderman

…ian Reconstructionist economic ideology. If the protests continue to be a flashpoint for larger national arguments about economic policy, you can be sure more and more faith leaders—Christians, but hopefully others too—will weigh in on how God views the current political crisis. God, however, is not the only point of religious relevance in this looming budget battle. At bottom, after all, it amounts to a question of moral priorities for Wisconsin’…

Hope Once Again In Wisconsin

By Daniel Schultz

…illustrating what Digby called the “serious, civic argument happening” in Wisconsin these days. Whatever else you want to say, Wisconsinites are debating real, meaningful distinctions in political visions for their state. Elbow’s article successfully depicts that debate. Agree with it or don’t, it’s a great example of the kind of long-form journalism not seen very often these days. I don’t want to weigh the piece down with Religious Significance….

“Frontier Feminist” The Right’s Favorite In Nevada

By Sarah Posner

…, is now endorsing Sharron Angle, who won the Republican Senate primary in Nevada on Tuesday, as a “frontier feminist.” Redefining movements is a specialty of the SBA List, which has distorted its namesake to claim she would have supported its infusion of religion into politics and its anti-choice position. “No one more than Sharron Angle exemplifies frontier feminism — authentic, pro-life feminism that puts the ‘feminine’ back in the word. We are…

LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…, and along with his boyfriend, Cox was assaulted—gay bashed—in front of a Las Vegas club. He moved home to Montana, where he helped start the Montana Pride Foundation, organizing parades and HIV testing for Montana’s LGBT community. But he never stopped being Mormon. “I could never shake my beliefs,” he said. “I couldn’t go to church because I felt guilty, and it was a small town and everyone knew. But my gay friends would get mad at me for bei…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

7 Religion Stories to Watch in the 2012 Battleground States

By Joanna Brooks

…ould potentially play a role in this big prize of the battleground states. Nevada: Will Mormons drive the ground game? Obama leads by 7 points in Nevada, which has one of the most transient and least religious populations in the country. Twenty-seven percent of Nevadans identify as Catholics, 13% as evangelical Christians, 11% as LDS/Mormon, and 11% as mainline Protestant. But 21% have no religious affiliation at all, making Nevada one of the leas…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Two Massacres and the Virtual Transformation of Trauma

By Shruti Devgan

…nds of their fellow community members in the small community of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, or American Sikhs speaking for the Indian victims and survivors of 1984. Admittedly, there are vast differences in the reasons for why members of the Sikh community found themselves under siege in two different contexts and times. The Wisconsin tragedy is unfolding, but it is quite clear that the perpetrator, Wade Michael Page, was motivated by xenophobia. On the…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…er Herbert Kohler—pushed through a greatly weakened contract for the small number of Local 833 members still employed in Wisconsin. I say all this to make the point that American business and its “business-friendly” sock puppets like Gov. Scott Walker will stop at nothing—nothing—to roll back worker rights and worker security. So it is simply wrong to view the current Wisconsin putsch with the eyes of “on the one hand… and on the other hand.” It’s…