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Religious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?

By Frederick Clarkson

…e foundation-funded effort exploited the normal tensions of democratically run organizations for their own religious and political reasons. Indeed, the American Charter talks a good game of seeking to foster mutual respect and tolerance in order to restore the supposedly “declining virtue of civility” and reduce societal polarization. But this does not mitigate the glaring problems at the heart of the Charter and the fact that the leaders of this…

The White Christian Moderate Is Our “Great Stumbling Block”

By Thomas Greene

…ice in our government. For the months (and even years at this point) that Trump and other radical conservatives were running on platforms of racism and bigotry, we called on good-hearted people to empathize with the minorities that were being attacked and maligned. We begged for people to hear their voices and listen to their fears. But when the time came to cast a ballot, the fears—whether of Mexicans and Muslims or bills and pink slips—were too…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…ing in the way of free market capitalism taking over the United States and ruining the morals of the citizens. He saw Christianity as providing a check on market logics. There have been times when certain forms of Christianity—that of the Transcendentalists in the 1830s and 40s, for instance—exhibited the potential for a gospel of debt forgiveness to stand in opposition to the free market. But it does seem that the two opposing traditions have com…

To White Evangelicals, a Long Overdue Dear John Letter

By Brandi Miller

…life, I am devoutly centered around its tenets: conversionism, biblicism, crucicentrism and activism. However, with the election of Donald Trump, the evangelical church has compromised and discarded its moral integrity and historic values for political power and high ground. How we vote reveals our values. At this moment in history, it is measurable. White evangelicalism has conflated love for God and commitment to scripture with conservative poli…

Duggar Daughters Talk Sex, Courtship, and Fear of Ungodly Men

By Myev Rees

…ust conform to some exacting standards. These standards are rooted in constructions of innate male brutishness and feminine virtue. It seems that in the Duggar construction, Godly men are required to be protectors and providers; in order to do this they must conquer themselves. In a truly Victorian model, men, unchecked by the gospel, are simmering volcanoes of testosterone. In order to be considered a potential suitor, a young man must honor the…

Mormon Church Finally Notes Black Elders, Still Offers No Apology

By Darron T. Smith

…ost, in honest conversation and a deep prophetic understanding grounded in mutual trust of the vicissitudes of the human experience, with all the raw emotion that flows from such meaningful discussion. It’s having the strength and courage to be “transformed by my experience as I have been by yours.” But there was no wrestling with weighty matters of a history of racist indoctrination. Church authorities merely ended the priesthood ban leaving, in…

Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event

By Sarah Posner

…Temple Mount. Other portions of the ICEJ’s program will take place at the new Jerusalem Pais sports arena, and activities include a march through the city “to express our solidarity with Israel.” (The ICEJ website currently touts a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thanking the group for its support during the recent Gaza war.) According to the ICEJ’s website, the disputed prayer vigil “promises to be a highlight of our time in Jerus…

When Muhammad Ali Met Billy Graham

By Paul Harvey

…ham’s evangelical vision, while his son, Franklin, has taken a stand with Trump on banning Muslims. And Trump’s endorsement by Paul Ryan this week indicates that, all in all, he and the House Republicans will be just another brick in Trump’s wall. Ryan’s resurrection of compassionate conservatism and the elder Graham’s more capacious visions for evangelical embrace of others have fallen, like George Foreman in 1974, to a rope-a-dope strategy. *Not…

Faith in the Market Is Our National Religion, Says Theologian Harvey Cox

By Alan Levinovitz

…uyers, and sellers all transacted their business within a nexus of assumed mutual trust, manners, and obligation.” No longer—we have traded morality for unadulterated greed. Cox provides little evidence to support this Manichean dichotomy between past and present. Instead, the book relies largely on speculative theorizing. This is best illustrated by Cox’s treatment of the “pixel,” a sinister new vehicle for The Market spirit that “leaves a memory…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…ing in the way of free market capitalism taking over the United States and ruining the morals of the citizens. He saw Christianity as providing a check on market logics. There have been times when certain forms of Christianity—that of the Transcendentalists in the 1830s and 40s, for instance—exhibited the potential for a gospel of debt forgiveness to stand in opposition to the free market. But it does seem that the two opposing traditions have com…