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Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…e days in our PC society etc.” The number of supportive and sometimes racist posts outnumber those who advice caution. I can’t suspect such hideous posts are all from Saddleback membership. I’m sure quite a number are. It’s as disturbing as it is disgusting. Warren commented on Tsang’s article, “Thanks so much for teaching us! It was removed instantly.” However, Warren did not get around to posting a formal, public apology until the next day,…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…er the “Sign of the Beast” in Topeka 666 is still a little unnerving, there are differing opinions about the number’s translation. Some theologians suggest the number should really be 616, in which case, all eyes on Peoria, Illinois….

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…encountered all of this when I visited Rathdrum, Idaho for a chat with assistant pastor, Father Anthony Short. Father Short is only 25, having gone straight from home-schooling under traditionalist parents into St. Joseph seminary in Rathdrum, and then into the major seminary in Omaha, from whence he returned to be deputy pastor. Father Anthony Short He was sincere—even guileless—in conversation, not least in his explanation of the “Masonic infilt…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…ofessionals “describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most struggling with devastating trauma or mutilated bodies that are the product of war and the highly advanced care that kept them alive.” Islam Responsible? Even with all this background information readily available and a call from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) “that we take the time to gather all the facts, as it would be irresponsible to be the source of rumors or inaccurate i…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…RD essay—that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete realization. Our collaborative project has sought to understand the different conceptions of religious freedom at play in the world today, their different social and political contexts, and their varied histories. Neither my work nor our project takes a position for or against religious freedom. To assume t…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…moments in the last year when it seemed the Mormon community might take a stand against Trump’s presidency. When the candidate proposed a ban on Muslim immigration, the LDS Newsroom released a statement reaffirming its support for a plural society. And a month before the election, several prominent Mormon politicians revoked their endorsement of his candidacy, the Church-owned newspaper requested that he step down from the ticket, early polls sho…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…y. The book is loosely organized around the different physical elements of stone, paper, stained glass and film from which earlier generations of Americans shaped the Ten Commandments. I suppose I could have multiplied the examples or case studies, but then the book would have read less like a narrative and more like an exhibition catalogue (not that’s there’s anything wrong with that). Besides, I tend to write tightly and prefer a text that’s lea…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ally matter whether the restriction in Locke was phrased in terms of use instead of status (for was it a student who wanted a vocational degree in religion? Or was it a religious student who wanted the necessary education for his chosen vocation?).” Similarly, in her Trinity Lutheran dissent, Sotomayor wrote, “the Church has a religious mission, one that it pursues through the [preschool]. The playground surface cannot be confined to secular use a…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…with results as follows: Image courtesy of PRRI. Not surprisingly, Trump’s strongest support comes from white Evangelicals and his weakest from Hispanics and African-Americans. We’ll talk about the minorities in a minute. Here, let us notice that while Evangelical support for Trump is overwhelming, he’s actually running quite a bit behind Mitt Romney’s 79% and even John McCain’s 73%. He’ll still win the demographic handily, but it won’t do him muc…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…r a few years of slaughter and starvation “Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a good slogan, but at this moment “Better an end with horror than a horror without end” is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal. If we ever could, we certainly can no longer afford to think that Trump does not matter. He is the presumed nominee of one of America’s two major political p…