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Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…trip or civics lesson, his family had just fled Castro’s regime in Cuba. “Any time anyone is made less equal, we all are,” Irigonegaray says, noting that, “fear is a horribly paralyzing force and too many still choose not to speak out” against bigotry toward sexual and gender minorities. That fear of those who are different from us, according to Rev. Schlingensiepen, makes conservative Christians in the United States no different from other social…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…se people were just holdouts, who would soon give up or die off. The large number of young families I saw at St. Joan of Arc—around a third of the parish—suggest to me what others must have by now have realized: that this constituency is not going anywhere soon.” Lefebvre’s views wove together theological, ecclesiastical and political conservatism. Though, like all traditionalist groups, the SSPX claims to be preserving the Church’s immemorial tra…

Spinning Ft. Hood

By Hussein Rashid

…I’m hearing is anger. I mean, the Muslim community of Central Texas has many connections to both Fort Hood and the military. There are many members of the services who are in the community, who are feeling this personally, veterans and active duty personnel. And, you know, there’s relationships, real relationships with that base and with people at that base. And so, you know, the primary feeling I’m hearing is anger, not even fear for what might…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…forms and occupied different spaces under modern regimes of governance, many of which are described as secular. My forthcoming book also discusses the political economy of the “religionization” of global politics, which I’ll mention by way of conclusion. Today many scholars and practitioners interested in these topics in Europe, North America, and elsewhere see no way forward but to take their place in the burgeoning international infrastructure…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…ic allegiances, placed white Mormons in the Mountain West in the same company with white evangelicals. At many of these moments of cultural strengthening, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was there to serve as a musical coronation. It was only fitting, then, that at Ronald Reagan’s inauguration—the event seen as the culmination of the religious right’s coalition—the new president dubbed the Mormon Tabernacle Choir “America’s Choir.” The moment seemed t…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…nstrates how successful the religious right has been at rebranding nearly any attempt to enforce the Establishment Clause as a form of religious persecution. Declining to divert public money to churches has long been considered necessary to protect the individual right of conscience of the citizenry. Far from being discriminatory, separation of church and state is intended to ensure that individuals may choose to adhere to any or no religious beli…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…looks to be releasing new information on the Catholic vote on Halloween, a number which often closely tracks the final total of overall voters. It’s also a number that varies quite a bit by the racial breakdown. While Trump wins white Catholics 48-41, he gets absolutely crushed among Hispanics, 84-12. A few back-of-the-envelope calculations put us firmly in “Holy shit” territory. Even assuming a generous 50-50 split of black, Asian, and other Cath…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…he made these bigoted and unfounded claims about immigrants: “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People ar…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nt, I was struck by David Brooks’s partial defense of the Greenspan testimony. For Brooks, the testimony was noteworthy for its candor; Greenspan simply admitted that he did not see the housing crash coming, and was at the same time impassioned in his continued commitment to his own economic philosophy, one based, according to Brooks, on “empiricism.” What Paul Krugman and Alan Greenspan and most economists share as economists is an intense intere…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…he syllabus together and then, after reviewing it, realize there are too many men and too few women and too many white people and too few people of color. You have to be intentional about your choices. Undergraduate students might not notice, but seminary students would crucify me if the list weren’t diverse. And, of course, they should care about diversity in the authors we read. It helps that the seminary classroom at Boston University, where I…