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Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn’t Always the Way for Conservative Christians

By Amy Fallas

…estinians. According to a policy paper from the U.S. State Department, the number of displaced Palestinian persons numbered 725,000 by May 1949. Although Palestinian repatriation and compensation for property was required under the UN Partition Agreement of 1947 and UN Resolution 192, Israeli Foreign minister Moshe Sharett objected on the basis “that their [Palestinian] return would disturb the homogeneity of Israeli areas.” In response, Christian…

“Menergy”: Men’s Ministries and the New Masculinity

By Joseph Gelfer

…en. Promise Keepers, it seemed, was maturing. But, more interestingly, its numbers were dwindling; the early concern that patriarchy was gaining fresh momentum was, it seemed, unfounded. Promise Keepers never really went away, it simply became less visible. In the past few years they, along with a large number of similar men’s ministries, are operating with a newly styled menergy, and there appears to be a sizable appetite for it. Of course, there…

Corporations, Religious Conscience, Citizens United, and Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…mposing a substantial burden on OIH’s owner and manager, Frank O’Brien. In July, a federal court in Colorado reached a different result, holding that the coverage requirement did substantially burden a private company’s religious exercise and rejected the government’s argument that a private company cannot make a religious freedom claim. But Judge Jackson, because she already had held that coverage requirement did not substantially burden O’Brien’…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…than 50% of the babies born in the United States during the year ending in July of last year were white. That’s right: among the nursery set, certifiably white bundles of joy are now in the minority, and this trend is considered irreversible in view of the higher fertility rates among immigrant groups already living here and a virtual end to the in-migration of whites from abroad. The New York Times reported this in Column One noting only that, i…

Leaving America to Marry

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rnment, marriage license. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since July 20, 2005 after the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act. The road to marriage equality in Canada was similar to the one currently being traveled by the States. Some provinces ruled in favor of allowing it while others resisted. The only true cure for Canada is the only true cure for the States — a federal law equalizing marriage rights for all across the board. The stru…

Obama’s Muslim Problem—And Ours

By William D. Hart

…er satirized anti-Muslim disinformation and anti-Obama associations on its July cover. In the Oval Office, President Obama dressed in “Muslim” attire is fist-bumping Michelle Obama-qua-Angela Davis who has an AK-47 slung across her shoulder. In the background, on the wall, is a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Below the picture an American flag burns in the fireplace. Sixties Mau -Mauing and radical chic meets Islamic terrorism—a bigot’s worse nig…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…hority to do so, and thus confirmed the four bishops’ excommunication on 2 July 1988. That is the decision Benedict reversed last week. The issue was procedural, but the four bishops’ anti-Modernism was never a problem. That, you may recall, was the real topic of Benedict’s Regensburg Address. And that is the subtext of these rehabilitations. The enemy is not a foreign faith; the true enemy is the enemy within: It is Christian Modernism. Make no m…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…y performed a quasi-hymn unoriginally titled “Make America Great Again” in July 2017, and who, after Trump declared that there were “very fine people” among the white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville in August 2017, took to CBN to declare of Trump, “there is not a racist bone in his body.” (In an unexpected exception to the general pattern, on June 1, Pat Robertson himself called for first degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin,…

Navy Yard Shooting: Why It’s Not a Religion Story

By Michael Jerryson

…would not support Buddhism, promoted and fought in the Japanese-led Russo-Japanese War, Japanese battles in World War II, the Sri Lankan violence in the 26 year-old civil war against the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam, and many more. Although these examples are plentiful, they are not widely known. There are many reasons for this, among them the lack of exposure in most comprehensive accounts of Buddhism. The point here is not to argue that Bud…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…to crib from a cringey meme, it’s time for some speech act theory! *** In July 2020 Harper’s Magazine published a “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” signed by over 150 writers, academics and public figures—including anti-trans zealot J.K. Rowling, scholar-activist Noam Chomsky, novelist Margaret Atwood and a host of intellectuals, some conservative, some liberal, some radical. Published during a potent moment of Black liberation struggle, when,…