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Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…the tea parties, and charges of racism. Tim Johnson, the vice-chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, the first black person to hold that post, who moderated a panel, The Values, Politics, and Messaging of the Black Community, sought to dispel “rumors” that the tea party movement doesn’t “welcome blacks.” Yet while they endorsed their tea party friends (who had apparently depleted their audience), other speakers made clear that perhaps the t…

With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No

By Katherine Kelaidis

…within the European Union, single-handedly holding back an EU-ban on the importation of Russian oil. Orban’s Hungary and the Russian Orthodox Church also have an important and powerful ally: American rightwing evangelicals, creating a Christian right axis that unites Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and North America; Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants. Moreover, let’s not forget, Metropolitan Hilarion will now be a legal resident of the European…

Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Brannon Ingram

…targeted both as a potential security threat and a source of potential support for U.S. nation-building efforts in Somalia. Similarly, American methods of surveilling Muslims are now being exported to China in a global commodification of anti-Muslim policies and practices. The Nigerian government used Trump’s words calling for lethal force against rock-throwing migrants to justify killing rock-throwing Shi‘i protesters. War on Terror rhetoric has…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…oubled down on his March threat to “tariff the hell out of” China, Russia, North Korea, and any other country, which is his primary foreign policy tool. Harris believes in the existential crisis of climate change—and that fracking will help that. What many fail to realize in this match between two people who continuously charged one another with lying, was that both lied—and lied a lot. Sure, we’re all accustomed to dishonest politicians by now, b…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…tts +Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Assistant Professor Dept. of Political Science Northwestern University Evanston, IL +Richmond L Gardner PN3 (Ret), USN, 1991-2001 (Retired Personnelman 3rd Class, US Navy) Horsham, PA +Diane E. D’Angelo Phoenix, AZ +Manan Ahmed University of Chicago chapatimystery.com COMMENTS: Omid Safi: I am in agreement with the insightful words of Abdullahi An-Na`im above. It is a sign of the intellectual poverty of our age that a r…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…g in the nondiscrimination ordinances makes it legal to commit assault. Supporters of the ordinances claim that municipalities which already have such ordinances have not seen any increase in reports of bathroom assaults. And given the appallingly high rate at which transgender individuals suffer assault or worse, it’s pretty tenuous to conclude that nondiscrimination ordinances create a powerful incentive to pretend to be transgender. But those p…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…ck to tradition. They would turn back to church and say these things are important and reimpose order with church. What Crowell did, and what makes Crowell important to my mind, is that he created a way to continue the evangelical movement without having to resort to a churchly mode of imposing order. How did he do that? The first step was to create a new standard of orthodoxy. Traditionally, you had a Presbyterian orthodoxy, a Methodist orthodoxy…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…ld-line denomination, right-wing detractors are correct in noting that the numbers are grim and the future far from bright. The question is, why? Why has this once-powerful church, with unmatched cultural capital and an impressive treasury, become so anemic? The answer is surely more complicated than the simple right-wing Anglican formula that liberalism = death. But let’s face it: this has been a tough few months for the Episcopal Church, and the…

What Romney Didn’t Tell You about Mormonism at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

I spent my Labor Day on the beach at Coronado—home to the North Island Naval Station—with two military families we count among our closest friends. As we watched our kids play jump rope with kelp strands, a friend recalled something Mitt Romney left out of his keynote address to last week’s Republican National Convention. “No mention of the men and women deployed in Afghanistan,” she said, echoing a concern voiced by conservative commentators lik…

Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…recent and profoundly saddening accident is the implicit idea that winter sports are not sports that many North Americans are willing to permit to turn violent or deadly. The Winter Olympics, a form of ritualized contests the ancient Greeks could scarcely have imagined, are supposed to be the lighter, and less serious, version of the Olympics; the staging of the Winter Opening Ceremonies confirms this. The really dangerous things are supposed to h…