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What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…and the church insisted that Catholics opposed the decision, a significant number of Catholics similarly ignored them, having decided that on matters of sexuality the hierarchy wasn’t to be trusted? It’s that split within Catholicism that freed up Catholics to affiliate with whatever political party best met their priorities: social justice issues for left-leaning Catholics and sexual restraint, law-and-order, and a muscular national defense for r…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…false one. With well over 100,000 deaths as of publication, more than the number of service members killed in World War I, America is living through an apocalyptic moment. But it’s also an apocalypse in the literal sense of an unveiling or disclosure—an unmasking. The coronavirus has unmasked how our lives are marked by a profound mutual dependence that challenges our self-understanding and political ideologies. It has unmasked a federal governme…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…or Ron Ramsey. However, Apple is a religion according to two professors at Texas A&M. Ken Ham, from the creationist group Answers in Genesis, argues that the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins promotes atheism. Ham is one of the founders of the Creation Museum, proving that one museum’s atheism is another museum’s science. A Methodist minister will be tweeting the Eucharist 140 characters at a time. A Christian graduate student at Augusta Sta…

GOP isn’t Pro-Life After All

By Patricia Miller

…m to be “pro-life.” It also shows a way forward on abortion for Democrats. Texas Rep. Peter Olson this week became the latest Republican to assert that it was perfectly fine for the party’s overhaul of the Affordable Care Act to allow insurers to opt-out of providing maternity care as a basic service, as many conservatives have requested, with the goal of reducing premiums. “We have what’s called an X chromosome, which means we can’t have a baby,”…

Party of Religious Liberty Botches Debate on Religion and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…asked by a Facebook user, Carla Hernandez, a student at the University of Texas. “If the Bible clearly states that we need to embrace those in need and not fear, how can we justify not accepting refugees?” Hernandez asked. Republicans will leap at the chance to tell you why the Bible supports banning same-sex marriage or abortion, but this was a duck and cover situation. Even though Hernandez directed her question to all the candidates, Blitzer p…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…litical movement in the 1970s. Brother Doug Phillips is best known for his Texas-based homeschooling publishing house, Vision Forum. On his father’s in-house TV show in 2007, father and son cast the situation in Sudan at the time, and the work of the Persecution Project, in stark Manichaean terms. The elder Phillips introduced one segment, for example, by saying, “Brad, you have been focusing on the persecution of Christians in Sudan, some two mil…

Sarah Palin and the Static God

By John Willingham

…alues, on the God of the Bible.” She would be perfectly comfortable on the Texas State Board of Education, where social conservatives have likewise emphasized the importance of In God We Trust and promoted a tilt toward the “One” in E Pluribus Unum: Latin for “Out of the Many, One.” There is no doubt that their One is the biblical God. One of the best-known American philosophers is William James, author of Pragmatism, Varieties of Religious Experi…

Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…undoubtedly been my students, first at the University of Vermont, and then Texas Christian University. Students respond to films in ways they don’t respond to standard textbooks. Don’t get me wrong, I continue to be an avid reader (I’m all into short stories these days) and, of course, I wrote a book about films. I continue to have my students read words, but I’ve increasingly felt that these words must be put into dialogue with the fleshed-out re…

Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…other Rome-themed remarks. And while Arizona Republican Andy Biggs and the Texas GOP compare the FBI raid to the crossing of “the Rubicon”—thereby painting Garland and the FBI as wannabe-dictators marching to Rome—they would only be too happy to welcome a Caesar, so long as he was their own. As with “law and order” rhetoric, it becomes clear: consequences and laws are not for their own, not for conservatives. As Thomas Zimmer astutely points out:…

Mitt Romney, Frontrunner: Deal With It

By Joanna Brooks

…omic conservative segment of the Party is also out to get the frontrunner: Texas Republican Dick Armey’s privatization-hawking Freedom Works is gearing up to spend big and mobilize its one million fiscal conservatives against Romney. Leading GOP donors, operatives, and the media continue to flirt with fantasy candidates, including Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, who will announce his presidential bid June 21 at the Statue of Liberty. Just like Ronald…