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Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s, is on a downward slide. But perhaps this is precisely what explains the Paris attacks. ISIS is desperate. It needs a victory, a vivid show of force to bolster the morale of its supporters, attract new volunteers, and with luck, intimidate its foes. The attacks in Paris may have been calculated to achieve all of these goals. Moreover, if its actions could goad the French and other Western powers into further military action against them, this wo…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…forget the apocalypse because that was the topic. And you couldn’t forget Paris because Paris has a way of saying “I’m here.” Golden Rule The best slogan I heard repeated in Paris is “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” The other phrase that stuck has to do with some parts of the world being “sacrifice zones.” (h/t Naomi Klein for that coinage.) Women from North Dakota joined Hawaiians who joined Filipinos in describing themselves as…

Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…t be portrayed at all) no other Muslim attacked the cartoonists’ office in Paris. This brings us back to the idiosyncratic nature of this terrorist act. It was not Muslims in general who attacked the Paris office, it was these guys. Hence no amount of thundering about Islam or Islamic radical ideology in general explains why these particular people did what they did. If they were not commanded by some radical organization to undertake the attack,…

A Post-Dallas Challenge for Religious Progressives: Staying On Message About Structural Racism

By Peter Laarman

…ld likewise expect to hear it from African-American police officials, like Dallas Police Chief David Brown. You don’t rise in law enforcement as a Black person without fervently and repeatedly reaffirming your True Blue colors. What is deeply dispiriting, however, is the number of people in political leadership and in the commentariat who mouth the exact same memes: 99% of police officers are great public servants, blah blah blah. Of course they a…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…als were arguing that Donald Trump is the “President of Pittsburgh and not Paris,” the mayor of Pittsburgh Bill Peduto tweeted his support for Paris. Numerous state governments and legislators of all parties reaffirmed their desire to keep with the agreements. Slowing down, again, one hears voices of support and solidarity for climate action crying out just as loud as an ill-informed press conference or shock jock spiritual pundits. And slowing do…

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition

By Daniel Silliman

…te, Truett gave Baptists “a public voice.” But the First Baptist Church of Dallas was political before him too. Before Truett was called to the church in 1897, there was Samuel A. Hayden. Hayden was a kind of associate pastor at the church in the 1880s. His main ministry was actually a newspaper, the Texas Baptist and Herald. Hayden hoped to establish one Baptist paper for the whole state, but he couldn’t quite pull that off, and he got bogged dow…

Big Ecumenical Gathering Marks Multi-Faith Presence at Paris Climate Talks

By Donna Schaper

…mble big wigs— those of us with the travel budget sufficient to make it to Paris—attended the celebration of Multi-Faith Presence at COP 21 and Reception. We have a tilt towards the Niebuhrian, which means, theologically, that we understand doing some bad, like flying, can result in some good. Most of the people in the room were good at jet lag if bad at carbon emissions. GreenFaith, the OurVoices campaign, the World Council of Churches, Islamic R…

Why Dallas Republicans Skipped an Interfaith Forum

By Jonathan Malesic

…d up: the Democrats. The Republicans’ absence challenges stereotypes about Dallas, where the relentless Trump-booster Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church, is a well-known figure. It also reveals something about how Republicans want to frame the relationship between religion and politics. Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI), a nonpartisan group that counts about two dozen churches, synagogues, and schools among its member organizations, hosted…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BBC: In a video on its social media channels this week, Tsargrad TV called on gay people to compete for a one-way plane ticket overseas. “Just recently, California—the most libe…

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…