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Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…of Syria and Iraq that it held. People who lived in Mosul are able to move freely, but they don’t have anywhere to go. The city is in shambles, and those trying to go elsewhere are herded into massive camps housing tens of thousands of refugees set up by the UN High Commission for Refugees in neighboring Kurdistan. I visited some of these camps in recent months and talked with a group of young men who were hanging out in front of their tents smoki…

Senators Can and Must Ask About Nominees’ Religious Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…business” of the committee. But it absolutely is. Cruz has made religion a central part of his political appeal and the justification for many of his more conservative positions. The same is true of these nominees. As Senator Whitehouse said today, “It absolutely is the business of this committee to make sure that nominees who seek judicial office in the United State of America will leave their religious beliefs in the robing room and not bring th…

Teilhard’s Legacy Can’t Be Reduced to Racism: A Response to John Slattery

By Joshua Canoza

…es largely from The Mass on the World, completed in 1923.” Fire imagery is central to Teilhard’s writing and Bishop Curry’s selection bears some affinity with “The Mass on the World,” but the sermon’s most direct citation is from an essay titled “The Evolution of Chastity” written in 1934. I find this omission strange, but it could stem from Slattery’s desire to separate Teilhard’s work into an acceptable early portion and an unacceptable latter p…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…increase communication and coordination between members of the “religious freedom movement.” This includes such groups as the Heritage Foundation, Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Family Policy Councils, which are state-level lobbies affiliated with both Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…both funny and terribly sad at the same time to watch her rush through the central story of Christianity with a scowl, as if she would quite literally rather be in the briefing room being grilled by CNN’s Jim Acosta But of course Sanders, like the rest of the Trump administration, cares nothing about Christianity, or its central Easter story of atonement, humiliation, resurrection, and hope. For her and for Trump, even a benign and “timeless” trad…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…rior has little in common with other New York public transit spaces. Grand Central Terminal, for example, with its lovely chandeliers, constellation ceiling mural, and central clock visible to all, is a welcoming hub of transportation in a diverse and vibrant city. There’s no clock in the Oculus; the closest thing you’ll find is a Rolex store. The Oculus alienates all except the wealthiest of visitors. The giant eyeball says to all others, “You on…

Steve Bannon and the Conservative “Cafeteria Catholics”

By Patricia Miller

…s are best dealt with at the most local level practicable rather than by a central authority. This offers a convenient justification for Republican attacks on “big government” and reasonable levels of taxation that support federal anti-poverty programs, which the Catholic hierarchy generally supports. As O’Loughlin notes, this is very much in line with Breitbart’s coverage of the church under Bannon, which was “aimed at bolstering conservative ide…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…er the awful optics of assaulting that lady, too, or because—as one of the central shared symbols of our national identity, a true icon of the “American tradition” of which he spoke—the Mother of Exiles represents American ideals when it comes to immigration. Ideals matter. Indeed, when the fuzzy category of “religion” gets used as a lens to help understand the dynamics at play in national identity, in patriotism, ideals and symbols are at the for…

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ics. The Puritans thought it wise to form a colony because their religious freedom had turned political. The very ideology of “the separation of church and state,” is still political. The reason the Southern Baptists and the Southern Methodists, respectively, were created was because of slavery—something that was a major political football of the antebellum South. Many of those moments almost pale in comparison to the clustering of voters around C…

The Book of Diana: Wonder Woman as Theological Text

By Yazmine Nichols

…her surprise, the war does not end. The war’s continuation defies Diana’s central belief: that Ludendorff is none other than Ares, the god of war, and that killing the god of war will end the process of war. In all of the preceding build-up, the audience has been led to believe that Ares is the cause of war and the cause of the darkness of men, implying that his death will bring peace. In theological terms we’d say that God’s intervention does no…