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Sacrifice, Suffering, and Rick Santorum

By Ivan Strenski

…o uncomprehendingly—when not even capable of considering the choice? While high-minded theological rationales enrich Rick Santorum’s life story, what have Catholic theologians to say about how Isabella’s life story might read? Is her “character” being built up by the pain she suffers? Does she see “blessings” in the diseases that wrack her body? Is she “uplifted” by some commitment to “life” one can scarcely imagine her capable of making? So, I mu…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…and concerns to ensure the consumers are provided with the most relevant, high quality, high value Christian products,” a spokesperson wrote. But as Meisenheimer suggests, that influence may be on the verge of waning. In 2011 the venture’s researchers reported Southern Baptists’ fourth straight year of decline in overall membership. This year, a Gallup Poll has revealed Americans’ confidence in organized religion is at a new low. In 2008, LifeWa…

Dear Mitt, Young Mormon Families Need Medicaid Too

By Catherine Jeppsen

…stance. Restrictions on student employment, caps on student loans, and the high costs of insurance premiums and maternity deductibles don’t leave many other choices. These students aren’t relying on government aid because they are irresponsible or careless. Young Mormon couples who have children are simply trying to live their faith. For decades, LDS Church leaders have instructed members to marry and have children early, without waiting for finan…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation. Anointing of High Priests Tallulah Dalton, the South Carolina nurse, found a home for her ministry just a year and a half ago in the spare back room of Cornerstone Christian store—which also houses the local post office. The owner, Art Maco, who tells me he came to Christ after spending the 1980s playing guitar in a heavy metal band, brings that musical aesthetic to the FHOP prayer and…

A Sliver of White Evangelicals Abandoning Trump, But That May Be Enough

By Daniel Schultz

…p. That leads to two perhaps contradictory questions. First, why are those numbers so high, given who Trump is and what Trump does? And second, will his white evangelical base ever break with him? PRRI answers the first question by saying that in Republican states with high COVID rates, Trump’s favorability is 49%. Elsewhere, it’s 40%. In other words, Trump hasn’t been damaged much by COVID in his base states, because more people in those states a…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…gy and wealth and will ultimately mean “condemning them to poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that inevitably accompany it.” “Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is actually a great boon not only to humanity (by increasing crop yields) but also to all other life on earth,” Beisner argued in the letter. The conservative evangelical opposition to the EPA and environmental regulations is no new development. Conservative evang…

Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

…d be pleased to do is take responsibility for all in society, not just the high-born and monied. He attacked corruption in government and in the powerful East India Company and sought to improve the wretched conditions in Ireland and among British workers. The idea that light regulation comes with societal responsibility goes back to John Locke, whose criteria for self-government grounds our Declaration of Independence, and to the economic guru of…

White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…antly shifting; it’s not that involuntary part-time work is at an all-time high; it’s not that the earning prospects for many jobs are so pitiful that unprecedented numbers of workers have simply stopped looking; it’s not that inflation-adjusted income for households headed by someone with only a high-school education have fallen by almost 20% since 2008; it’s not that low-income people are still often shut out of needed preventive health care ser…

America’s National Conversation about Christianity is ‘Fundamentally Unserious’ — But Not in the Way You Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…es his efforts to convert Jews to Christianity, we are told in a generally high-quality news outlet that the outrage is merely partisan, and that objecting to conversion attempts represents a “fundamentally unserious” approach to Christianity. Let’s not bother to acknowledge that the writer lobbing the accusation is a columnist for the evangelical publication Christianity Today and a contributor to the outright reactionary American Conservative, s…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…eiman, head of the history department at Bayyinah, an Islamic institute of higher learning based in Texas, confirmed this to me in an extensive conversation on Islam, slavery and sexual consent. “Rape is violence,” Suleiman made clear, “and Islamic scholars have even classified it as muharabah, as war against the community,” the maximal (hadd) punishment for which, he noted, was more severe than adultery. Indeed, it qualified as a capital crime, i…