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The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…and grace extended to the dispossessed that I see a resonance with the teaching of my tradition, which repeatedly tells of Jesus’ radical commitment to love everyone, family, friend, or foe. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that just as God “makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous,” we should reject worldly distinctions of status and privilege. Jesus tells us our love, like his, sho…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…ke white people. But they don’t want to be neighbors with people who are poor and they don’t want to send their kids to a poor school. In Luke 6 Jesus talks about who should be afraid: woe to you who are rich, to you who are well-fed, to you who laugh now, to you who are popular. I think he said those things because wealth and comfort insulate us from those who are suffering, and it also keeps us from interacting in real and authentic ways with Go…

Obama and the Louie Giglio Controversy

By Sarah Posner

…mments were recent and pertained to the still-fresh Proposition 8 fight in his home state of California, Giglio’s comments were unearthed from an archive of old sermons, and there hasn’t been any evidence, so far, of anything more recent. What’s more, since the Warren pick, Obama has established his bona fides on marriage equality, and has tapped Richard Blanco as the first openly gay inaugural poet. Obama’s selection of Myrlie Evers-Williams to d…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…has never been “a stronger warrior for the Judeo-Christian principles on which this nation was founded” than Trump, and that “the effort to impeach President Trump is really an effort to impeach our own deeply held faith values.” He has also used his Fox News appearances to spread the Christian Americanist gospel. On “Fox & Friends,” he asserted that “by and large our Founders were orthodox Christians who believed that the success of our nation d…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…lities seem not to touch the powerful fantasies of those seeing America’s shifting demographics and yearning for an imagined, halcyon past. In the debate over judicial nominations, there is ample room for arguing over political and ideological issues in the law. Who is going to sit in judgment over our most important cases is worthy of high debate and intelligent discussion. Dragging out the old canards of Jewish socialist internationalism and sex…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…al candidate. Changing the tone of politics is good. On the other hand, I think this is also about marginalizing the role and voice of religious progressives, which is to say those who in past decades played decisive roles in stopping the war in Vietnam, pushing for African American and women’s rights, and much more. The Beltway Insiders would prefer not to have a resurgent Religious Left complicating things by making conservative evangelicals unc…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…a waffling point for the serious thinker who wants to know if there is anything to this atheism craze. I began with Dennett and moved on to Harris, Hitchens, Jillette, and Dawkins. Their God often looks to be a straw man—more properly a straw deity—easily set up, and easily knocked down. Still, they make so many valid points that anyone who thinks about religion must take pause. Serious pause. In the reflected light of that billboard outside my bu…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…digital technology” to “invite Christians… to join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible.” Okay, that’s kind of like welcoming everyone to a party that started hours ago, but you’ve got to at least applaud the Vatican’s effort to be digitally magisterial. Along the same lines, Rome recently announced a new Facebook page that promotes the beatification of Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Paul Tighe tells USA Today that th…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…rub: while Scott hired people of color to play Jesus and his disciples, he hired white actors of European descent to portray the Roman elites, Herodian kings (Kelsey Grammer—Frasier himself—is Herod!), Jewish high priests, and the traitor Judas Iscariot. While Scott’s decision to hire non-white actors for Jesus and his disciples might appear as a liberal, or even radically liberal, reimagining of O’Reilly and Dugard’s book, it’s actually a nefario…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…ith the Kingdom. Many of those writing about immigrants or Black men debauching White women may have understood themselves to only be telling what they thought was an interesting and true story. It would also be remarkable if many of them zoomed out to recognize their articles as just another derivative piece of racist dogma. But what individual journalists understood their work to be and what that work meant to readers are different things. Race…