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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…th Keepers seeks armed volunteers for Trump rally in D.C.,” The Washington Times, December 10, 2020. [37] Christian Triebert, Ben Decker, Derek Watkins, Arielle Ray, and Stella Cooper, “First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack,” The New York Times, February 14, 2021. [38] Kyle Cheney, “Text Message Trove Shows Oath Keepers Discussing Security Details for Trump Associates,” Politico, April 18, 2022. [39] “Proud Boys,” Sou…

Dumbest Interview About Islam of All Time

By Sarah Posner

Offered without comment: Brody: With some evangelicals there are some problems with the teachings of the Koran. Do you have concerns about the Koran?” Trump: Well, I’ll tell you what. The Koran is very interesting. A lot of people say it teaches love and there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I’m certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. But there’s something there that teaches some very negativ…

Is “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?

By Patricia Miller

…ancis and the church, says Bruenig, “with showy indifference.” At the same time, she notes, Catholics attuned to the social justice message of the church would have a hard time “working within the Democratic establishment, where the situation is similar in kind but reversed on the issues”—particularly abortion and LGBTQ rights within the framework of “religious liberty.” As political scientist Timothy Byrnes recently argued, however, our two-party…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…nd on the webcast seemed nostalgia-driven, a misty-eyed remembrance of the time when PK could pack a stadium with 50,000 men. But this doesn’t mean the game is over for Coach’s dreams, which may be more widely shared than some might think. PK’s reinvention, even if it falls flat, tells us a lot about the reach of Christian Zionism, philo-Semitism, and Messianic Judaism within some quarters of evangelical America. Some of the signs—all abundantly i…

Time to Get Rid of “Gay Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gious conservatives start to talk about giving up what we “cling to,” nine times out of ten they are talking about homosexuality—as if those who remain gay or lesbian after encountering Christ are just as pitiful as those hoarders on TV who can’t let go of one piece of trash without having a psychologist on standby to talk them down. Again, though, even amidst the subtle rhetoric, I find myself agreeing with Goeke. Christ does call us away from “c…

Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram

By Aimee Chor

…. It’s easy to think we have arrived. Arrived at a destination that all of time was waiting for and working towards. We think this is the world we wanted, but is it? . The colonial days of America have always drawn me in. It was a time full of adventure and unknown territory. Desperate measures called for deepest faith and ingenuity. Housewives took scraps of fabric and braided and sewed them together to keep their feet warm on the frigid wood flo…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…then that is not progress, is it? How far we can progress and at the same time claim Islam, respect its traditions, is really the nuts and bolts of the discourse about progressive Islam. It is important for my sanity to have places where this conversation can go on at a somewhat rigorous pace. Otherwise, I get lost in baby diapers and/or my own offspring. As delightful as that is on one level, I must admit my mind turns toward the ideas of Islam…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…ith this argument. Despite claims to the contrary, torture has been proven time and again to produce unreliable intelligence. People will say anything to get you to stop hurting them. Even if, as the New York Times reports, one detainee who was “apparently subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier,” there were also two other detainees who underwent some of the same treatment (including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,…

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…Amharic, Efik, Fante, Igbo, Lingala, Twi, and Yoruba will record DVDs for distribution. When I was young, Conference was translated into a handful of European languages and Tongan. A few years ago, I spent a whole morning tuning into the various real-time translation streams on-line. As someone who has spent some time in the Navajo Southwest, I listened longest to Conference in the beautiful Dine Bizaad—Navajo language. Ya’a’teeh, brothers and…

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

By Elisha Chi

…cept that had not yet become fully realized in the European empire at this time. Pope Nicholas V wrote the first two bulls, Dum Diversas (1452) and Romanus Pontifex (1455). At the time, the Catholic Church was itself a political power in Europe. Indeed, Europe was known as Christendom, which some sources have defined as, “a visible society with one head and one hierarchy.” These first two bulls of the Doctrine of Discovery authorized Alfonso V of…