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“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…ores the larger point: Trump is still the one candidate who coalesces the largest number of evangelicals—even the weekly churchgoers—around him. Those numbers would likely shift should Trump face a two-man race with Ted Cruz. But if survey data still show what they have revealed so far—that Trump will continue to win at least a third of the most frequent church-attending evangelicals—it undermines anti-Trump evangelicals’ main argument about the s…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…d that the major religious right organizations “will, in concert with secular far-right groups, attempt to destabilize the Obama administration early on by raising some contentious ‘culture war’ issue. This will be similar to what they and their GOP allies in Congress did to Bill Clinton over gays in the military back in 1993. The idea is to cripple Obama right out of the box by forcing him to divert attention and resources away from economic conc…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…lves the death of all non-Christians, including Jews, through apocalyptic warfare or divine judgment,” and “is not based on traditional teaching or doctrines of the Church.” The brochure is being distributed by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States, an organization made up of 35 different church bodies and some 100,000 churches. “If we don’t speak up against it—Christian Zionism—then people will think we don’t care or…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…when a man gives a lingering hug to his brother or a woman walks with her arms around the shoulders of her sister, they could end up in jail. Furthermore, this law, though it has been billed as an anti-gay marriage law, prohibits ‘civil unions’ as well as forms of homosexual dress and activities. In other words, same-sex relationships that do not involve or include marriage, such as domestic or caring partnerships, are also proscribed and punishe…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…n, as Chair Jane Nelson of the Senate HHS Committee noted during the SB1 hearing, gestures of care and concern, color-blind gestures. Perhaps these acts were merely tactical, the “kill them with kindness” ploy. Or maybe, these moments, however rare, however fleeting, offer a glimpse of generous and yet-to-be realized coalitions that strive for the common good, whatever that might look like. Texas, like the union of which it is a part, is built on…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…s jolting as the heinous act itself is the method of the attack, which appears dissimilar to ISIS-directed attacks in Europe. The most common form of ISIS-inspired terrorism to date is suicide bombing, not mass shootings. Farook and Malik exacted terror on American soil in a form of violence reminiscent of fatalities that occur almost daily in this country, enabled by a warped interpretation of the Second Amendment. Perhaps most offensive of all,…

Don’t Be Tooken In by Kimmy Schmidt‘s Cult

By Megan Goodwin

…, as Kimmy’s New York roommate Titus Andromedon would say, basic. Fey and Carlock are reenacting a tired, false dichotomy: women versus religion. Religion is not a source of comfort, or a system of meaning-making, or a mode for women’s leadership and authority in Kimmy Schmidt. Religion is belief, and it is a mistake—one that women make far too often. Kimmy Schmidt delights in overplaying stereotypes, often to criticize inequality. But there’s lit…

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ucing not long after the New Testament writings had been completed. No, we are far more likely to think of the modern Bibles we know, identical books printed in massive print runs, replete with all sorts of readerly helps, from running headers at the top of the page to chapter and verse numbers below. Imagine that: the common Protestant practice of “proof-texting” (citing one verse as a way to capture the essence of biblical truth) would have been…

The Unbearable Whiteness of American Lent

By Anita Little

…s (what ever happened to those?) until Holy Week. After grilling me on the little joys I partook in on any given day, the teacher decided that I would be giving up television for Lent. As the only child of a perpetually exhausted, single working mom, our second-hand 24-inch Sony with its five channels was more de facto babysitter and playmate than luxury. In any case, I didn’t understand what that had to do with Jesus wandering in the desert. I re…

To the One-Percenters, With Love

By Garret Keizer

…ard? Heavens, no. I have work to do. I have a deadline to meet. The cities are so far from where I live. I hate crowds. And I don’t want to be one of these nostalgic old lefties who showed up at the encampments hoping to catch a little limelight and dispense with a little unsolicited advice. Perhaps, who knows, I am something even worse: a man who moves to the left merely to excuse himself from any action short of the perfect coup on a perfect May…