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Vatican Fires Shot at US Religious Right, Calls Out “Religious Liberty” Industry and “Evangelical-Catholic Alliance”

By Patricia Miller

…perspective were seen as a “spiritual war” . . . Church Militant asks if Trump’s victory can be attributed to the prayers of Americans. The response suggested is affirmative. The indirect missioning for President Trump is clear: he has to follow through on the consequences. This is a very direct message that then wants to condition the presidency by framing it as a divine election. For conservatives, however, this is not political warfare cloaked…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…ne’s leap into the meaning of the eucharist is the same. Whether by engineering or importation or accommodation, an act with universal claims must somehow be made available to anyone. A ritual can bend pretty far, and in more than one direction, without breaking. What needs it bends for, and how far it can bend to meet them, may or may not be adequately answered by rules for the host. The only certainty is that new needs will arise, new questions…

Seth Meyers Tries to Unpack Trump’s Faith: A Narcissistic Prosperity Gospel

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Night with Seth Meyers, the host took a break from lampooning the breaking news that constantly dribbles out of the White House, instead focusing on “Trump’s evolving views on faith, religion, and separation of church and state” in his nightly segment, “The Check-In.” Meyers’s recounting of Trump’s anything-goes-as-long-as-it-makes-money religiosity is impressively nuanced, calling out several of the self-proclaimed faith leaders surrounding the p…

Nashville Cats Play Dumb As Backwards Preachers

By Daniel Schultz

…ipture with sensitivity and nuance, and forgoing the temptation to see the world simplistically. More important, it means that pastors and other religious leaders owe their followers consideration of their full life and faith. It means that we understand their loves as multi-faceted, their relationships more than one dimensional, their desires to reach God legitimate, their world confusing, ever-shifting, sometimes frightening, sometimes capable o…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…humans—predicated on a basic emotional ability which, in turn, he claims Trump lacks. “If the government was commensurate with the response of the American people we would be on the road to recovery,” Miranda told Billboard. “I’ve got little kids breaking their piggy banks or families delaying their vacations because they’re donating money, or even people saying instead of presents for my birthday send them to Puerto Rico. My faith in our country…

There are Nonproductive Ways of Listening to Each Other: Deborah Jian Lee on the New Era

By The Editors

…hear out “the other side.” As someone who straddles multiple cultures and worlds, it’s something I’ve done for a long while, and I’ve learned, especially in times like these, that there are both productive and non-productive ways of doing this. A few months after the election, I was speaking at a mostly white Christian college in Virginia when a white man approached the mic and started berating me for suggesting that LGBTQ people and other minori…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

…, “Young evangelicals who embrace Christian nationalism are going to vote Trump, no matter what they are liberalizing on.” And the state of the relevant research leaves no doubt that the vast majority of young evangelicals embrace Christian nationalism, no matter what they may say about their views on the environment or same-sex marriage or human trafficking in the hopes of appearing more “respectable” to mainstream society. Back in the aughts, my…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…that happened in the 17th century than the ever-regenerative work of constructing what exactly it means to be an American. Like anything religious at its core, Thanksgiving invites skepticism as well as orthodoxy, yet that’s always been intrinsic to what makes the holiday, and the country which it embodies, so fascinating, as these pieces spanning a decade of Religion Dispatches can attest to. *** How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship Re…

The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation

By Sophie Bjork-James

…pite the absurdity of this claim (Jesus was, after all, a refugee who was crucified for breaking the law, as noted by Talking Points Memo and numerous others), the dangerous logic in White’s statement is that those dubbed criminals are equated with sinners. According to this logic, criminals deserve punishment, not compassion—even, as it turns out, when children are involved. James Dobson, a founder of the pro-family movement, recently stated that…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…crats and faith. The trope is more played out than The Wise Cab Driver or Trump Voters Still Like Trump tropes. Religion reporters need to be smart enough to understand that the pressures to talk about faith are not symmetrical. Dems do not, nor should they, talk about faith in the same way Republicans do. So maybe instead of creating a narrative that implies they should, they could write a story about why they do things differently? To put things…