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A Victory for Conservatives in Revised AP History Curriculum

By Peter Laarman

…tates history. The Board owns and controls the SAT, so what it proposes by way of the teaching curriculum obviously matters. Fox News has trumpeted this as a victory for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. And really, who can blame them? It’s a big win for their side in the battle of ideas, despite claims by the College Board and by some cowed centrist historians to the effect that the new framework actually represents a more “balanced” appro…

Why Virginia Governor’s ‘God is Everywhere’ Statement isn’t a Simple Answer to Those Who Want to Worship Together

By Karen E. Park

…nding church services in person, though it can and is fostered by it. This way of thinking about religion in America—as personal, emotional, and individual—is more than common, it’s normative. But as Bishop Barron points out, this way of being religious isn’t actually universal—it’s Protestant. We can see its lack of universality clearly when we look at a non-Christian tradition. Where I live, in Appleton, Wisconsin, there’s a sizable Hmong popula…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…grappled with recognizing that this is not something you could choose your way out of. There’s always this sense of, “If you really tried hard, or prayed hard enough, you could come around.” Again, my gay friends would say, “Why on earth would I choose something like this? Who needs all this trouble?” I think it’s the willingness of gay and lesbian people in sharing their stories that finally got it through my thick head that this isn’t an optiona…

I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’

By Chrissy Stroop

…nd sexist pronouncements and laws they often back and promulgate. From the ways in which white women were put on a pedestal by white men in the Reconstruction and Redemption era, to the lifting up of the “family” as a way to disparage Black families as not being “moral” if there wasn’t a two-parent household, evangelical moral issues about sex, family and money have never been applied stringently to themselves or their leadership the same way they…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…eptember. What makes the snub of Grassley so ironic is that he is, in many ways, a creature of the Religious Right. Iowa was the proving ground for the nascent Religious Right back in 1978 when pro-life activists conducted a stealth campaign against incumbent Senator Dick Clark, who political pundits almost universally regarded as a shoo-in for reelection. During the final weekend of that campaign, pro-life activists—most of them were Roman Cathol…

Sin is Not a Crime: A Conversation with Patrick Cheng

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ot going to be able to see this model—even though it’s ancient and in some ways even more beautiful than Western notions of sin and grace that we’ve inherited. Those in the moveable middle or a little bit to the right are longing for ways to heal themselves, and I think that this crime-based Augustinian model may have hurt them too. My experience has been that when these people hear this it opens their eyes in ways that is healing for them. They c…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…ous as far back as the Persian Gulf War of 1991 when Israel was hit with a number of Iraqi missiles the Israeli government, which always boasts that it will respond harshly to any attack, did nothing because Washington put up a big red light. Washington appears to be flashing the red light once again. According to the Washington Times, “a senior Israeli official said that Israel has not asked for US aid or permission [to attack Iran] because the N…

Gay Lawmakers Paving the Way for Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd of openly gay lawmakers who are using their personal stories to try to sway laws in favor of marriage equality. Rep. Mell was successful in her push to get civil unions recognized in her state. Right now, there are 85 openly gay or lesbian legislators around the country. That’s a small percentage of the more than 7,300 lawmakers out there, but their outspokenness about how inequality in marriage laws are affecting their families appears to be m…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…g Bishop and the national church have had to respond at times in an ad hoc way in the spirit of preserving unity within the church,” said Mullin. “Canons that were crafted in the nineteenth century could not have anticipated the way things have unfolded in the twenty-first, so of course there will be ambiguity. But,” he adds of the AAF’s charges, “there’s nothing new here.” You Might Be an Anglican Schismatic If… The first such ambiguity is the ma…

Ummah: Solitude and Connection

By Amina Wadud

…the “best ummah”; and to be the ummah of the middle, moderate, or balanced way (i.e. not the extreme way). But what really drew my attention was the reminder that Allah says, “We could have made you into a single ummah…” Surely then, the command for moderation is not a command for superiority, but rather for cooperation between diversities. So, what makes a collective? What makes an ummah? In these days of the nation-state, it is not a single geog…