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Why Won’t David Barton Submit to Peer Review?

By Joanna Brooks

…ident of the United States of America? That’s the prospect raised by a new New York Times profile of Barton, who is an aggressive proponent of the thesis that the Christian dimensions of America’s founding have been suppressed. (Julie Ingersoll analyzes Barton’s recent appearances on The Daily Show and in the New York Times in a must-read essay here at RD.) I don’t fault Barton for his religious zeal, or his love of American history, and I admire…

Bernie’s Roman Holiday

By Daniel Schultz

…on the idolatry of money in the middle of a make-it-or-break-it primary in New York, and arriving in Rome on a day when the Vatican would much rather be talking about Francis’ meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew in Lesbos about the European refugee crisis. As if that weren’t bad enough, Sanders showed up with his family in tow, undercutting the high-minded moral message he was supposed to be delivering, and Oh, sweet Jesus, did they really put his…

Kristof’s Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…ing for their forays overseas. When the snooty liberals Kristof meets at New York cocktail parties disparage evangelicals, it’s because of the Falwells and their descendants (see, e.g., most of the GOP presidential field). It’s true, not all evangelicals are nasty blowhards, and they don’t deserve to be lumped together with the others. But Kristof blindly defends the “nice” evangelicals, quoting Jim Wallis, for example, who faces deep skepticism…

CNN’s Disastrous ‘Town Hall’ with Trump Put the Country at Risk

By Robert P. Jones

…ning. Its more direct take: “To call it a shitshow would be generous.” The New York Times concluded, “Trump’s Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall.” The Times also vividly described the raucous, hostile atmosphere CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins encountered: The audience’s regular interruptions on behalf of Mr. Trump were like a laugh track on a sitcom. It built momentum for him in the room — and onscreen for the television audience — and s…

Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

By Jeremy Kessler

…different from his father’s. Norman went to Union Theological Seminary in New York. Being a minister is what his parents wanted him to do; going to UTS was not what his parents wanted him to do. Union was a bastion of liberal Christianity, of the “social gospel.” The social gospel movement promoted the idea that society should abide by what Jesus laid out in the Sermon on the Mount, that love should be the animating force of human interaction. It…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…o lack some key details; Savannah Jacobson of Slate.com has criticized the New York Times for amplifying the voices and overstating the charitable efforts of anti-choice activists; and RD’s Mary E. Hunt has called out the Catholic bishops who, after a post-Dobbs victory lap, released a statement touting their work to support pregnant people. My own bullshit detector has picked up a few trends among these “compassionate” anti-abortion types, starti…

I Was Wrong About Occupy

By Donna Schaper

…ormitory space for occupiers. They need to be outside and together. What they want is “the right to see each other.” Radical. Will all this community result in a just economy? How could it not? Governor Cuomo has called a special session of the New York state legislature to deal with the millionaire’s tax—something he would likely not have done if some people weren’t occupying physical space, in New York City and Albany and Los Angeles and Philade…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…getting on board and taking a seat,” it was amply clear I was no longer in New York. As I watched a literal myriad of scholars of all stripes (and spots) mingle with only the occasional sour-tempered glare, it seemed that religion might just be all right after all. Is it really the evil that Dawkins seems to indicate? Can 10,000 scholars of religion really be wrong? This is a waffling point for the serious thinker who wants to know if there is any…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ort, six-minute film at the new National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, but for an analogous controversy seventeen years prior about a film on Christianity’s relationship to antisemitism at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. At present, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels has refused to consider any edits that would add the context and definition suggested by the museum’s Interfaith Advisory Group. He told…

An Open Letter to Rabbi Dov Linzer on Modesty and Jewish Law

By Shaul Magid

…nnie Schottenstein Professor of Modern Judaism Indiana University/Bloomington Rabbi, Fire Island Synagogue Sea View, New York…