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For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…ound abortion in America. In 1985, following a year during which there were 10 bombings and 16 cases of arson, the senior Scheidler famously called for “a year of pain and fear.” For over a decade he was a named defendant in the high-profile case, Scheidler v. NOW, in which the National Organization for Women argued that Scheidler and others effectively formed a criminal conspiracy to close clinics that provided abortion services. The group has…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…all eager to tell us how gruesome the unemployment and discouraged worker numbers continue to be, and how desperation and depression are taking their toll for millions who struggle for a livelihood. If there is any passion at all in these recitations, it is a passion in the head. Better than none, I suppose. But if we want to galvanize people who themselves are not struggling around the grim state of the economy, reeling off the facts won’t cut i…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…) The Heritage School of Theology Only in America can one find significant numbers of serious Christian theologians who will still argue that unfettered capitalism represents God’s Plan for human thriving. Calvin College has made something of a specialty of defending entrepreneurship and acquisitive individualism in theological terms, but Calvin’s theological point-people are hardly alone in this. And then there are the unserious theologians (or s…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…enormous collections of bad debt, or worse still, imaginary insurance policies, simply because the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them, cooked the books, sold this nonsense to their friends, and…

Good News for Jewish Justice

By Ruth Messinger

…history of involvement in movements for social justice, and I meet growing numbers of American Jews who want to act as “Jewish global citizens” in pursuing justice around the world. As Pew notes, most American Jews are finding meaning as Jews outside of Jewish institutions. Therefore, we need to listen carefully to the innovative ways in which most Jews are experiencing Jewishness today. From the yearning I witness among American Jews to play a ro…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…alized government that was powerful enough to overturn state injustices. In 1844, Smith corresponded with presidential hopeful John C. Calhoun, the architect of the South’s states’ rights doctrine, and asked what he would do to help minority groups like Mormons. After he received the unsatisfactory response that the federal government only has “limited and specific powers,” Smith chastised the politician for failing to grasp the necessity of feder…

The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?

By Haroon Moghul

When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged politics of Islam and the West meant some kind of blowback to Salman Rushdie’s novel was likely: The Iran-Iraq War had just ended and the Soviets were retreating from their brutal occupation of Afghanistan. Still, few expected the incendiary outburst that ensued, let alone a violent attempted murder more than 30 years later. Back in 6th grade, I re…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…of peace has been sitting in a drawer ready to be implemented for at least 15 years, and most of us think Christian Zionism is an impediment toward peace in the Middle East.” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has reported that about 20 to 40 million Americans are Christian Zionists. “I would say the whole flier seems to me to be describing a stereotype of a Christian Zionist,” Brog said. “There are some Christian Zionists who are opposed…

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

…above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.” Construction began in 1853. In 1892, the Angel Moroni was placed on its tower and a year after that the building was dedicated. While an angel had appeared on the weathervane of the Nauvoo Temple in the 1840s, this was the first time the iconic figure of the trumpeting angel Moroni was used. Similar angels would later appear on nearly all the church’s temples across the globe. The figure recall…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…n. Mohler writes about the social impact arising from the disproportionate numbers of males and females. Citing a collection of short stories by Hemingway on gender imbalance he writes, “the stories are haunting, demonstrating the brutality that comes to men without the presence of women—and especially without the companionship of wives.” Right, I forget, in patriarchal fundamentalist Christianity, women do exist to serve men and facilitate men’s…