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Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…xclusion, and Protestant whiteness was often a key component. With greater numbers of Jews and Catholics on campus in the 1940s and 1950s, one fraternity even changed its charter to limit members to “Caucasian Christians.” Jews and Catholics challenged these discriminatory practices, but also defended their own autonomous organizations. As Schultz so nicely shows, fraternity struggles highlighted the problems of enforced integration. Jewish and Ca…

Americans Are Overtreated to Death

By Daniel Schultz

…g to the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which tracks health care trends. Yet the numbers show that’s not what is happening: •The average time spent in hospice and palliative care, which stresses comfort and quality of life once an illness is incurable, is falling because people are starting it too late. In 2008, one-third of people who received hospice care had it for a week or less, says the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. •Hospitali…

Florida Gov’s Plan Would Aid those who Seek Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…School (RBCS) in Niceville, Florida to add significantly to their student numbers by attracting students who could not otherwise effort to attend. They also have an entire program to support home schoolers. RBCS uses Rushdoony’s work in their high school classroom and Rushdoony was their first graduation speaker; they teach only young earth creationism and a version of American history that resembles that taught by David Barton but which predates…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ethical goods, then shouldn’t it do so? And aren’t most people at SoulCycle just trying to get some exercise? Those caveats matter. But as traditional religious structures continue to break down, and the nones’ numbers swell, it’s worth asking ourselves what new institutions will emerge—and what will change when these movements ultimately serve the cycles of the market, rather than communities of souls….

Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…nnual volume of the prayers being offered. For years it has recorded great numbers of prayers. But suddenly in 1961-63, the index tumbled; millions of prayers were no longer being prayed…the termination of millions of individual public school prayers had a significant impact.” Confusing correlation with causation is bad enough but Barton actually argues that the decline is demonstrably due to the fact that all those school children were no longer…

UK Muslims & the “War on Christmas”

By Svend White

…o-way street. Christians are going to celebrate Christmas and their higher numbers in society are going to naturally translate into a higher cultural profile for their festivities, but that doesn’t absolve the majority from its responsibility to recognize and strive to accommodate the sensibilities of other, non-Christian communities and traditions. When that responsibility to be open to diversity is systematically neglected, otherwise innocent ex…

What’s The Matter With Joe Biden? As Disgust Builds Over Calamity in Gaza the President Offers Only Toothless Criticism

By Haroon Moghul

…ric to the Senator from Delaware? Though Israel’s war has killed appalling numbers of journalists and aid workers, and repeatedly targeted medical facilities, mosques, schools and clearly civilian targets, racking up a civilian death count unparalleled in modern war, Biden’s sporadic criticisms are toothless—he continues sending weapons and shielding Tel Aviv from accountability. There’s a word for people who esteem some lives more than others. No…

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…ries: How is it that thousands of people are drawn to abusive leaders? Are numbers a sign of God’s blessing or merely an effect of good branding? Are successful churches merely sites of savvy capitalist exploitation? The show addresses this anxiety by drawing a distinction between character and charisma. Driscoll, Cosper tells us, was spiritually immature, yet possessed of intoxicating charm. Driscoll’s ministry would have been different, the audi…

Does the President Need Churching?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eople live in poverty in one of the richest nations in the world and their numbers grew significantly during on Bush’s watch. In addition, 43.6 million people under the age of 65 are without health insurance, leaving them open to financial ruin if they become ill. These are just two indicators of how the “least of these” are faring in our country, and the picture looks bleak. Presidents who talked a good game on faith like Reagan and Bush, saw pov…

The Humanities Make Life Bearable

By Peter Laarman

…es increasingly mirror the corruption of the corporate world, with growing numbers of senior administrators pulling down fat salaries while academic proletarians actually do the undergraduate teaching in humanities departments? Did it occur to them that there might be a problem with the way even some elite colleges now show their contempt for humanities instruction by relegating it to MOOCs? Or with the way students are effectively forced to take…