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Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…y move in the world. Through AAR/SBL support, this initiative’s aim is to place scholars of religion in conversation with mainstream journalists around the country so that the narratives around our lives convey truth and sensitivity. Association of Theological Schools: Include on its agenda for its upcoming Biennial Meeting a time for the Presidents of ATS schools to discuss what is both the impact and theological work needed to address the consis…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…at the boundaries of allowable discourse are set fairly wide. By contrast, laughing at a grandiose claim hardly seems so bad. It’s also true that the controversy over circumcision in the early church was settled by a conference which brokered a compromise. But the emphasis in that narrative is not on a human willingness to wheel and deal to a mutually satisfactory outcome, but on the grace of God working to reveal a path forward within a small, re…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…liticians generates a feedback loop that enables the proliferation and escalation of anti-trans legislation. And we’re now learning that the deluge of disinformation and hateful propaganda is also having a negative impact on trans acceptance in the general public—even among progressive demographics. That, at least, is my grim takeaway from PRRI’s new report, “The Politics of Gender, Pronouns, and Public Education.” The overall positions of various…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ad of Focus on the Family, or Robert George mastermind of the Manhattan Declaration) legal scholar Melissa Rogers is most decidedly not a member of the Christian right. Rogers, who has worked for the pro-church-state-separation group the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty, and now has an affiliation with the Brookings Institution, is one of the country’s best authorities on church-state separation law, and an advocate for enforcement of…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…f approach aside, Time and Life nonetheless told Catholic stories with similar relationship to authority. The notion that a religious organization as large as the Catholic Church might naturally include internal dissent was for the most part beyond the newsweeklies’ narratives of Catholicism in America, at least through the first four decades of publication. Only with the shifting cultural sands of the 1960s and early ’70s did Time’s Catholic cove…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…stication of language I refer to is the one of nuance. The curse that has plagued the coverage of Islam since the Iranian Revolution, that it is one monolithic religion, is really the plague on religion coverage in general. Over these last years, as the religious right has risen in power, as it attempts to actually create a monolithic understanding of Christianity, Christians have fought back. We now know that not all Evangelicals believe in the “…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…ican ethos. So that interested parties can connect with each other, she’s planned events in Portland (June 10-12) and Baltimore (September 24th-25). Concurrent with these developments, in fall 2010, Church Publishing (publisher for the US Episcopal Church) will partner with UK based SCM-Canterbury Press to launch the Mission-shaped Church Series in the United States. The goal is to finally make key resources from the UK Fresh Expressions movement…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…protection of “due process,” and recognition as “persons,” even as freed blacks languished under Jim Crow. The promises of “equal protection” waited until 1954 to be delivered by the US Supreme Court to persons of African descent. To put it very plainly: corporations counted more as persons than “we the people” did. The next two sections of the Fourteenth Amendment were more mundane and predictable: Section Two redefined how we distribute numbers…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…review boards; it doesn’t say how they should work. And, as the egregious lapses in Philadelphia and elsewhere show, it’s not clear that they are working. Steps to Take How might the bishops fix what’s broken when they meet this week? First, improve communication. Diocesan review boards are sometimes in touch with the National Review Board, which oversees the implementation of the Charter. But there is very little information sharing between lo…