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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…authoritarian rhetoric,” Associated Press, December 7, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72. [2] Marianne LeVine, “Trump calls political enemies ‘vermin,’ echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini,” The Washington Post, November 12, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/. [3] Kate Sullivan, “Trump’s anti-immig…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…ia. Chaput, a culture warrior, is on center stage as the Pope and the WMOF come to town. Of course, Archbishop Chaput has said he welcomes gay families to attend the WMOF, as long as they aren’t “lobbying.” However, a workshop planned by the Catholic gay rights group New Ways Ministries, titled “Transforming Love: Exploring Gender identity from Catholic Perspectives,” was cancelled from the WMOF schedule after Archbishop Chaput intervened. Meanwhi…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…e that secular modernity is marginalizing his identity, and that all those comfortable with the current system are complicit in his marginalization? This would probably include the majority of the passengers on the airplane. Perhaps the central difference is that religion is a choice. One cannot help being a woman but one can choose not to be the kind of Jew who refuses to sit next to women. But cultural progressivism has long defined identity bas…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…e natural-law-minded will say, the Federalist Society is a “pre-political” community, one derived from “self-evident” moral and religious truths that brook no compromise. The Federalist Society is pre-political (but definitely not nonpolitical) because the purpose of the organization is to nourish and establish within law students, in the infancy of their professional careers, the intellectual preconditions for future political and legal activity…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…rians have made it clear that the distinction is not legitimate, and logic compels recognition that from a Jewish perspective it doesn’t matter if the SS officer who killed my grandmother attended Catholic mass the next Sunday or mocked Jesus as a wimpy, pathetic Jew. What does matter is that the Church (Protestant as well as Catholic) never excommunicated that SS officer nor forbade chaplains from celebrating mass at concentration camps. Pope Ben…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…need.” When rich and powerful people asked how they could be part of this coming Kingdom of God, they were told “sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” (Mark 10:21) This is not an easy message for any of us who own anything to hear. Indeed, over the years preachers and theologians have tried to soften those passages, arguing that it is not money per se, but the love of money…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…America in the ’50s, this was Miami in the ’80s. Today I shop at drugstore.com. I shop anonymously. We, Consumers We should never forget that to consume is to devour. Whether it is the excess of our ritualized Thanksgiving meals or the “click, click, click” of the computer mouse in response to “free shipping!” “40 % off!” or “Buy one get one free!” in the United States, we are gluttonous consumers of material goods (and food, but that is a whole…

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…the larger context of taxpayer supported religious abuses: https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1226943920539459585?s=20 https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1226949227562987520?s=20 https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1227007863744323591?s=20 https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/1227090668587307008?s=20 https://twitter.com/DebraReaves9/status/1227012795637673985?s=20 https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1227071856194265089?s=20 While oppo…

10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hijack on Wednesday, exactly one week before Election Day. https://twitter.com/BelieveOutLoud/status/793831195364687873 Consider the tweets below a form of self-care, and a gentle reminder that people really can be good, tolerant, and loving, despite the vitriol that surrounds us. 1) https://twitter.com/UAB_Shoob/status/793573502251044864 2) https://twitter.com/maco_nix/status/794174938475352064 3) https://twitter.com/LizWelchLive/status/794147…

The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

By Anita Little

…is vocation or that we are working in white/Anglo churches. https://twitter.com/CandyCornball/status/693615071679889408 https://twitter.com/ReverendFem/status/693549287939137536 https://twitter.com/nathanarussell/status/693194432607158272 https://twitter.com/revstacey/status/693179446203813888 https://twitter.com/miheekimkort/status/693179157711187968 https://twitter.com/Nathaniroberts/status/693169616550498304 https://twitter.com/GodWelcomesAll/s…