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The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…to be anthrax to some 550 reproductive rights groups and clinics. In a manifesto published on the Web site of the anti-abortion Army of God, he declared himself to be “God’s warrior” and a “terrorist,” and threatened to kill as many abortion providers as he could. Waagner’s threats arrived during the same period when real, post-9/11 anthrax attacks on media outlets and Congress killed five people. In some cases, whole city blocks were evacuated wh…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…g rights and push through governance changes that have nothing to do with balancing budgets in the short term. Religious leaders might also be starting to draw the appropriate conclusions from the striking correlation between the sharp decline of American unionism and the sharp rise of American inequality that dates to the start of the Reagan years. It’s worth noting that Christian Century, a centrist magazine if ever there was one, devoted a two-…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…violence to workers’ rights and livelihoods. It doesn’t matter that it takes place in Wisconsin’s very graceful Capitol building (I loved its elegance and its distinctive sounds and smells when I would visit Madison as a wide-eyed kid). Kate Zernike had a very good piece in last Sunday’s New York Times about the deeper-level antagonism between capital and labor that lies beneath the seemingly placid soil of the Upper Midwest—America’s industrial…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…use, like Abraham Lincoln, he avoids any explicit mention of Jesus, and confesses that the ways of the Almighty are unknowable to humans? No, of course not. Rather, it boils down to this: because Chuck Norris, Franklin Graham, and the American Family Association (whose biblically-based policy toward employees has been detailed by Sarah Posner) say so. And because David Barton has 47 footnotes that say so. Yes, it’s true: Bibles being burned by the…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…ulgences, I suspect that the factor most decisive in transforming the 95 Theses (which he famously nailed to a church door in Wittenberg in 1517) from a local dispute to an international cause celebre was the involvement of the printing press that had been invented a half century earlier. To say that Luther’s cause was helped by this new media is to almost lie by understatement, as the singularly wide distribution of his tracts utterly changed the…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…ectively fired a single “shot heard round the world.” We had no need of professional soldiers; just ordinary folks like you and me who were brave enough to demand freedom at the point of a gun. That’s how we opened up for the whole world the possibility of winning the same freedom, the story says—as long as they, too, are willing to pick up the gun. Today we no longer need an Emerson. We have “national security experts” who explain that the threat…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the disciplinary structure of the Episcopal Church. Robert Prichard, a professor of American religion at Virginia Theological Seminary and the editor of the Journal of Episcopal Canon Law, allows, however, that the complaint does point to certain ambiguities in Episcopal canon law that have been exploited by both supporters and critics alike. General Theological Seminary professor Bruce Mullin, who has been an advisor to the Presiding Bishop on a…

In Marriage Decision, An Ode to Love and Four Provocations

By Sarah Posner

…Griswold v. Connecticut, which in 1965 struck down laws criminalizing the sale and purchase of contraception, Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 struck down laws barring marriages between couples of different races, and, of course, Lawrence v. Texas, which in 2003 struck down anti-sodomy laws, and United States v. Windsor, which invalidated the Defense of Marriage Act ten years later. Kennedy answered conservative claims that marriage equality wou…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…nfederate and white supremacist groups. For example, BuzzFeed reports that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, best known for his defiance of federal court orders on the unconstitutionality of Ten Commandments displays in courthouses and bans on same-sex marriage, once spoke to a gathering of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, the same group Roof cited as a key source of his white supremacist views. In associating w…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…e best known having been removed from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, a result of his refusal to comply with a federal court order to remove a 2.6 ton monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court. For this, at Heritage Community Church, Moore was a hero, and the assembled crowd relished his meandering, homespun disquisition on the sovereignty of God’s law over the laws created by men. Moore is in the…