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The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…lly scheduled for August 6. His group did not just participate in a single phone call, as Amy Sullivan reported at TIME, but gathered for a two-day meeting June 21-22, which was a follow-up to a meeting Robison convened last September. The same day that Robison wrote in a blog post that “Christians must respond to the invitation issued by the prophet Joel to ‘return to God’,” Perry announced his rally, saying, “Some problems are beyond our power t…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…at Bell like a celebrity. A man who said he drove to Durham from Columbus, Ohio, was starting an online ministry known as “Radical Nation,” and he wanted Bell’s advice in making the decision to go “radically inclusive,” (or “gay-friendly,” to the rest of us), and on how to sustain his and his wife’s energies for pastoring. A serene woman in an orange scarf announced that she had opened what she called “a gym for body and soul,” and she wanted advi…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…hites; moreover, they occupied highly desirable land north and west of the Ohio River and smack in the middle of the rich uplands of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Benevolent whites therefore took it upon themselves to organize a number of “civilizing” projects, then pressed for voluntary migration of the natives to lands beyond the Mississippi, then finally lent their support to a policy of forced removal. The white liberals arguin…

Is Football a Pro-Life Sport?

By Marian Ronan

…of America, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Marquette, the University of Dayton, the University of Notre Dame, Villanova, and Xavier in Cincinnati. (Anna Maria College in Massachusetts, recently protected from Mrs. Kennedy, also has a team.) In 2009, Notre Dame football made more than $15 million from its television contract, and returned $10 million in profits to the university budget. So here are my questions: Catholic sisters have recently b…

USCCB’s Dolan Blesses Ryan Budget

By Sarah Posner

…er, the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton, predicted in the piece that Ronan cited: “A new Republican majority in the house, led by a Catholic Speaker, plans to respond to the economic crisis by extending tax cuts for the rich and defunding health care reform—which means those portions that subsidize insurance for the working poor.” And he lamented that “[t]hese profound rejections of Catholic teaching and c…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…hankfully, the media has been calling attention to last Sunday’s speech in Dayton, where Trump said that some immigrants who are accused of crimes “are not people… they’re animals” and claimed that if he didn’t get re-elected, it would “be a bloodbath for the country.” But a few weeks ago, Trump gave an ominous speech that—while reported by RNS, the Guardian, the Associated Press, and the New York Times—caused less of a public stir. Trump’s remark…

New Atheism Produces Another Curiously Uncurious Science v. Religion Book

By Michael Schulson

…ty stunt, conceived by the civic leaders of the not-terribly-pious town of Dayton, Tennessee, in order to draw attention to their local struggles. Scopes volunteered to take part in the legal drama. A football coach who taught physics, not biology, Scopes was no crusading evolutionist. Darrow and Bryan were only too happy to burnish their public reputations. The trial was the nation’s first to be broadcast by radio, and it turned into a major medi…

An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail

By John Schmalzbauer

…lace and Billy Graham.” In Evolving in Monkey Town (set in her hometown of Dayton, Tenn.), Evans describes her transformation from the “girl who knew all the answers” to an earnest spiritual seeker. While technically a member of Generation X, Evans identifies “most strongly with the attitudes and ethos of the millennial generation.” Like many millennials, she is skeptical of large institutions, including the evangelical megachurches of her youth….

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…saac Newton and, more soberly, Thomas Jefferson. Much of 19th-century Anglophone theology stood in awe of what zoology could teach about God’s creation. Until Darwin. Since The Origin of Species appeared in 1859, there’s been little use hoping for convergence. Europe has fallen for secular scientism, and the United States for semi-closeted creationism. The best one can expect is a habitable truce. So where is Dan Brown’s confidence coming from? De…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…producing same-sex marriage greeting cards, and which employs a radio host who compares gay people to Nazis and advocates for the deportation of Muslims. Indeed several Democratic governors have offered the excuse that they have hosted or are planning their own days of prayer (Minnesota’s Mark Dayton, New Hampshire’s John Lynch, and Washington’s Christin Gregoire), because official praying events now appear to be a prerequisite for high office. S…