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“They Have No Intention of Changing”: An Interview with Sex Abuse Expert on Pope’s Fierce Defense of Accused Bishop

By Evan Derkacz

…ho were very faithful Catholics and employees of the church. Juan Carlos [Cruz] wanted answers. He wasn’t gonna pray. He wanted truth and accountability. Pope Francis—obviously—was not going to give it to him. Pope Francis has shown himself to be a smart and media-savvy public figure. But given that he was well aware of the long standing and vehement opposition to Barros from Chile’s Catholic community—which he called “dumb” for opposing Barros’ a…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…in the world. Shortly after New Year’s Day in 2018, a suicide attack in a market in central Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 20. The Amaq News Agency of ISIS said that the movement claimed credit. They also gave ISIS credit for attacks in Nigeria and in Egypt a few days before. Earlier in the year a group of Muslim separatists said to be associated with ISIS took over a town in Mindanao, the insurgent region of Southern Philippines, and controlled it f…

#ItsNotUs: Being Evangelical Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

By Timothy Gloege

…strongly infer) that only unconverted, ‘nominal,’ evangelicals supported Trump. Apparently, a vote for Trump is evidence enough? Meanwhile, evangelical Trump voters declare that by withholding support, never-Trump evangelicals have demonstrated their faithlessness. Liberal evangelicals also have a calculus of conversion that excludes their conservative rivals. “Conversion” acts as a theological weapon that muddies the definitional waters; it’s no…

Lying Boldly: Louise Hay and the Problem of Religious Science

By Peter Laarman

…here to catalog the immense damage done by “think positive—you can do it” trumpery; Barbara Ehrenreich already did that job, and did it brilliantly, in 2009’s Bright-sided. Instead, I want to place Louise Hay within the family tree of religious science. The many and varied ramifications of this peculiarly American religious movement make it look more like a forest than a tree, and because this forest has thrived in the suburbs of Christianity, its…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…that question, I responded by pointing to the usual suspects—the academic market as well as the readers of this, that and the other smart little magazine. But what I really had in mind was less a specific constituency and more a particular mindset: open, curious, intellectually nimble. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? Jolt and startle is more like it. I’d like my readers to come to the book bearing a set of pr…

A President “Anointed By God”: POTUS Shield and Religious Right’s Affair with Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ames, and they’re accountable to nobody except themselves—and that’s what Trump does. Trump has no real accountability to the Republican party. He has his own media, he creates his own media. He relies on his own charismatic personality and the devotion of his followers. He’s functioning like one of these apostolic guys, but in his own realm. The justification and apologetics for a “flawed” white nationalist leader is astounding to me in the face…

GOP “Stealthcare” Bill Reveals Catholic Bishops’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…According to the poll, which probed the political divide between urban and rural voters: Nearly 6 in 10 people in rural areas say Christian values are under attack, compared with just over half of suburbanites and fewer than half of urbanites. When personal politics is taken into account, the divide among rural residents is even larger: 78 percent of rural Republicans say Christian values are under attack, while 45 percent of rural Democrats do. T…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en leader Ramzan Kadyrov has, with the Kremlin’s tacit blessing, built his rule on brutal repression, Human Rights Watch said. Law enforcement and security agencies under Kadyrov’s de facto control have abducted people from homes, work places, and the streets, held them in secret locations, and carried out enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial executions, and collective punishment practices. For years, their targets were alleged armed in…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…e not so sure. Speculation that the robot is, or should be, to blame has already run rampant online. This isn’t just idle speculation on Twitter. It’s a reflection of much deeper fears about the world to come. It was the cyborg! If you’ve ever kicked a TV or mumbled threats at your computer, you’re familiar with how easy it is to assign human agency to unconscious machines. We seem especially prone to anthropomorphizing them when they frustrate us…

A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

…acter. What would that quiet, white, Christian male authority look like in today’s world, and what kind of society would Commander, oops, President Pence seek to build? As Trump’s troubles grow by the hour so does the urgency of these questions. Online and off, the term Christofascism is creeping into conversations. Christofascism, a word coined by theologian Dorothee Sölle, refers to Christian authoritarianism, an outcome sought by some in the Re…