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Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…itzke, a former TruNews host, QAnon supporter, anti-LGBTQIA+ activist, self-professed flat-earther, and the Delaware GOP’s candidate for Senate in 2020, said in February: Russia is a Christian nationalist nation, they’re actually Orthodox Christian, or Russian Orthodox. So, you know, I actually support Putin’s right to protect his people and always put his people first but also protect their Christian values. I identify more with Russian—with Puti…

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua Dies: Potential Witness in Philly Sex Abuse Trial

By Anthea Butler

…The trial of Monsignor William Lynn is expected to commence at the end of March 2012, and the case promises to be an explosive one. Prosecutors and the Philadelphia DA want to set a precedent for showing how the archdiocese instructed Monsignor Lynn to move priests from church to church in the hopes that the sexual abuse of children that had been committed in the archdiocese would not be discovered. The Cardinal, whom church officials said suffer…

11 Top RD Stories of the Year: Because in 2020 Religion Went to 11

By The Editors

…ionship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our abuser-in-chief, but also with the Republican Party, its white Christian base, the police, and the increasingly uninhibited READ MORE Go to top 4. Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data, Chrissy Stroop Are the nonreligious a marginalized group in America? When I brought this question up to a friend who lives in New York the other day, he was s…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…ion asked: “when and where and how are local churches giving their 12-to 16-year-old members such markedly special attention that they feel: ‘This is for us’?” So, in the early years, in 1966 and ’67, young men and women, countercultural Christians, experimented with rock music that had Christian lyrics. Similar innovation had already been taking place in England. In the US, groups like Mind Garage, the Crusaders, or Larry Norman made up the first…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…between soldiers and chaplains that ended up working far better as a stand-alone article than as a chapter in the book. It came out in Church History in March of 2009. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? I can think of three right away. First, this is a book that looks closely at men and women involved in a military effort and there seems to be an idea out there that histories involving the military are important primari…

If Hillary Wins Big It Won’t Be a Moral Victory—And That’s a Crying Shame

By Peter Laarman

…nd gesture exactly like that: highly calculated pandering. Tom Kaine’s down-to-earth Joe Biden impersonation can’t compensate for this defect at the top of the ticket. No number of morally-impassioned surrogates can compensate. We should not forget that a widely-shared yearning for a moral revolution formed the heart of the Sanders movement. We shouldn’t forget that this surge of moral energy surprised the Vermont senator himself, or that it was r…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

…rs for “God’s protection.” Likewise, it’s fine for Democrats and other left-of-center types to offer prayers for Trump. Neither Biden nor Kamala Harris nor any other leader can risk appearing to fan the flames of political violence, and it certainly matches the American context to call for prayer to turn down the temperature a bit. Certainly, no minister like me will ever snub a bit of empathy. But this approach risks overshadowing the very real,…

Wisconsin Religious Voices Witness Against Scott Walker

By Daniel Schultz

…Bay Drive, along Old University Avenue up to Capitol. Wednesdays 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Episcopal faith community, State Street Entrance to Capitol Thursdays 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: United Church of Christ and Lutheran ELCA faith communities, State Street Entrance to Capitol Fridays 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Presbyterian faith community, State Street Entrance to Capitol Saturdays 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Interfaith gathering hosted by MUM, State Street Entranc…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ditions, as interpreted by wealthy European Americans, and often target low-income, “inner-city” African Americans and Latinxs. “Secularized” programs extract, and potentially distort, cultural resources in a manner that can be critiqued as cultural theft. Marketers take what they see as the “essence” of another culture’s traditions, leaving behind what they dismiss as mere “baggage.” Ironically, positive orientalist stereotypes that equate Asian…

A Campaign About Values Voters, or Justice?

By Sarah Posner

…interprets all this through a nice versus mean prism: “By linking his taxes-and-jobs argument to the crude outbursts at GOP debates, Obama is trying to build a larger contrast between the charitable, inclusive vision he’s fighting for and a fundamentally mean-spirited, exclusionary one he’s implicitly accusing the GOP of harboring.” But focusing on “values” is an effort to deflect the perceived Republican monopoly on the word and the idea. (The Va…