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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

By Sara Kamali

…the term itself onto those who are actually deserving of the label. White nationalism is transnational Currently, a Muslim American can be prosecuted as a foreign terrorist, but a White nationalist cannot. This is because there’s a differential between a “homegrown violent extremist” and a “domestic violent extremist” within the Department of Homeland Security lexicon. A “homegrown violent extremist” acts under the influence or direction of a For…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…munication of Sonia Johnson, a public proponent of the amendment, received national attention. Mormonism faced new pressure from all sides. The Hofmann story, then, fed into this growing trajectory of exoticizing the faith tradition just after it seemed to be on the verge of cultural assimilation. Ironically, the episode also fit into the larger story of fears over religious frauds and conmen who were discovered in many religious traditions during…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…ublished under the Hay House imprint. In a perceptive 2008 profile for the New York Times Magazine, Mark Oppenheimer wrote that we all “live in Louise Hay’s world,” though we may not know it. For example, the practice of writing out and reciting a set of sunny “affirmations,” in the expectation that doing so will somehow transform your life, owes its ubiquity to Louise Hay. Without a Louise Hay—and I suppose without an Oprah Winfrey—there would be…

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

…sing the magic of statistics. When two people say they’re voting for Marco Rubio, they’re voting for the same Marco Rubio. When two people say they believe in God, there’s a lot of gray space left to fill, presumably with the kind of conversation and investigation that does not translate easily into percentages and pie charts. A whole lot of anthropological work has mapped the ways that individuals adjust their beliefs across contexts, and through…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

…the Christian Alliance,” Steve Roberts, who was ousted as Iowa Republican National Committee member, told the Washington Times. “If somebody came to me and wanted to be a delegate to the national party convention, I used to say, ‘Talk to the state party chairman or to Grassley.’ Now it’s very simple. You go to the Christian Alliance, and they determine who is a delegate, and you have to do exactly as they say.” Steve Scheffler, president of the I…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago an obscure billionaire named Barre Seid gifted $1.6 billion to a conservative political power broker, while skirting as much as $400 million in taxes. The transaction was difficult to uncover, benefiting from both an inside source and a chase through tax documents. Few had heard of Seid prior to the Times story. But it’s now clear that he’s made a massive monetary foo…

Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…mission by a deep Christian faith, were massacred by the Taliban. The New York Times’ front-page caption beneath their pictures read: “Humanitarian Victims of Afghan Violence.” The story began: “Their devotion was perhaps most evident in what they gave up to carry out their mission.” My question: should we not be calling them Christian martyrs? Perhaps the Times’ neutral language was meant to counter the Taliban charge that they were proselytizer…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y and intimacy, should enjoy much needed space. This is hampered by the overuse of national security and public morality by the authorities in some settings , for their political agenda, to curb freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, as also in regard to LGBTI people. Stereotyping, stigmatization and ostracism are often the result of a non-liberal mind and non-peaceful behavior, currently witnessed by the proliferating hate speech , often rampan…

Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

By Seth Sanders

…e of Israel was even desirable? If it is true, as Marc Tracy writes in the New York Times, that “[i]n 2024, anti-Zionism is the closest thing organized Judaism has to heresy,” then for most of Jewish history it may have been closer to the opposite. For 2000 years Jewish prayer has hoped ardently that the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) would soon be redeemed by God and led by His Messiah; some even made pilgrimage to visit or dwell with others in t…

Pope Warns of “Christianophobia”

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…But the Church is victim. The Church is in fact the most embattled victim, worldwide. Thus the times are analogous to the end of the western Roman empire, a time when Christians were similarly besieged.. But from which they emerged triumphant. Clearly, this Pope sees a battle in the offing, and he is reminding the faithful of the divine power enlisted on her behalf. Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam… It is a deeply worrisome message couched in the ap…