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The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Sarah Sentilles

…dom known for their courageous stands, but the caption could have said any number of things. The Woman Against Rape or The Woman Who Kicks Ass or The Woman Who Fights Back—I’d even settle for A Girl Who Fights Back. But nipple piercing? Really? When there’s all that other material? Which sums up the problem with Dragon Tattoo, the movie: not only does it participate in the sexualization of the violence it seems to resist, but it also asks the view…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…of us who hope to protect and extend our multiracial democracy… we ignore this white nationalist movement at our own peril.” Fifteen years in the making, Zeskind’s new book Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream is more than a history of the White supremacist movement. While the movement’s Christian roots, antisemitism, and racist beliefs have been dissected over the years, the core rel…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…th some people that we should never have partnered with” in a 2009 post on his blog—which the CP article cites—titled “What Zango Got Wrong.” When I asked if he was aware of Smith’s history with Zango, Olsen told me that “The child porn thing really came out of the blue. It wasn’t an issue that was on my radar until CP ran the article.” He continued, “That headline was really shocking. Did he distribute child porn? was the question in the headline…

Feeding on the Faithful: How Supernatural Thinking Empowered the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

…or supernatural thinking—exacerbated by military defeat and social crisis—which Hitler and the Nazi Party rushed to exploit. Nazism was not the first movement to take advantage of people’s faith for political purposes. But Hitler and the Nazi Party was far more effective than other parties in drawing upon what I call the “supernatural imaginary”—a cluster of occult and border scientific doctrines; Nordic mythology and Germanic folklore; pagan, New…

American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…the tweet back by the Al Qassam Brigades). Yousef Munayyer provides some history of the numbers from Gaza at Open Zion: For example, in 2011, the projectiles fired by the Israeli military into Gaza have been responsible for the death of 108 Palestinians, of which 15 where women or children, and the injury of 468 Palestinians, of which 143 where women or children. The methods by which these causalities were inflicted by Israeli projectiles breaks…

‘Miracle’ in Manila

By Jonathan T Chow

…to be their brazen stonewalling tactics, especially Executive Order 464, which prohibits any cabinet officials from testifying before the Senate without the president’s permission. The case took a dramatic turn in early February when the Senate could not locate Lozada, who was due to begin giving his testimony. A few days later, Lozada resurfaced at De La Salle University in Manila, a Catholic university, where he invoked the ancient custom of sa…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…ance conception, is a woman who cannot hope to be much more than a baby-machine,” she wrote. Cahill and Ruether were not alone in concluding that the church’s dictum on contraception was an anachronism. Catholic theologians and bishops were also suggesting it was time to revisit the teaching. Two developments spurred their willingness to question the ban. One was a change in how the church viewed the purpose of marital sex. The church had held sin…

Grassroots Faith: The Lessons of The Social Gospel

By Christopher H. Evans

…liberal-progressive politics). I don’t doubt that there are exceptions to this pattern. However, I think contemporary religious progressives need to look carefully, as Rauschenbusch did, at how the specific aspects of their religious traditions promote what he and his contemporaries referred to as “the social awakening.” It could be argued that both the “progressive” and the “radical” wings of the social gospel failed to crystallize into enduring…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…t). And if Jesus didn’t have white privilege, then white privilege is something that white people can presumably “escape” or “opt out of.” The formula is a logical disaster because it rests on a flawed understanding of whiteness, of white privilege, and of Jesus’s identity as a human person. It’s difficult to tell which of these conclusions Metaxas was actually after. It also doesn’t much matter since each is fundamentally without merit. As I writ…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…paigns waged against Joe Biden was the false claim that he supports the mythical thing conservatives call “late-term abortions.” In another example, when Raphael Warnock challenged Kelly Loeffler in 2020 for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, the incumbent held a rally where her political ally Doug Collins said, “There’s no such thing as a pro-choice pastor.” White evangelicals make up one-third of the GOP. The GOP is notoriously probing when it comes…