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How the Messianic Jews Story is Playing in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…untry. There are no hard numbers, but there are thought to be approximately 10-20,000 Messianic Jews living in Israel. Israelis who are aware of them in their midst—and think that it matters and they have to do something about it—tend to be Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox. The most visible of these groups is the anti-missionary group Yad L’Achim, whose zeal for preserving the Jewishness of Israel extends to “rescuing” Jewish girls from dating Arab boy…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…rgest number of evangelicals—even the weekly churchgoers—around him. Those numbers would likely shift should Trump face a two-man race with Ted Cruz. But if survey data still show what they have revealed so far—that Trump will continue to win at least a third of the most frequent church-attending evangelicals—it undermines anti-Trump evangelicals’ main argument about the suspect evangelical identity of Trump’s supporters. Even by the strictest def…

Rejecting the Stranger: Why Rod Dreher’s Vision of Communal Christian Life Is Not So Benedictine After All

By Kaya Oakes

…hat even if progressive Christian denominations were shrinking, increasing numbers of American Christians who no longer attend church would still move toward a more progressive theology, a more Gospel-based sense of welcoming the stranger, and vote accordingly. For the most part, they did not. Thus, as a prominent voice for conservative Christianity, Rod Dreher has every reason to be strutting his stuff. Conservative Christianity rode four horses…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

By Manuel A. Vásquez

…in America. However, the widespread violence perpetrated at the end of the 19th century against Chinese immigrants as reaction to the “yellow peril” and the Zoot Suit riots in the early 1940s give us plenty of reasons not to be overly complacent. Cases of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa and the US also show that, while the effects of undocumented immigration may be national and local, it is a global issue. Immigration is a contentious iss…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…sin was almost exclusively white: only 1,171 free blacks were listed in the 1860 census, and just over 1,000 Native Americans, out of a total population of 775,000. The Republican-dominated government tried to keep it that way, with bills aimed at limiting black migration to the state. I don’t mean to slander the early GOP, or the founders of the Wisconsin Idea; their politics really were radical for their day. My point is simply that it’s easy to…

With Trump’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities, Afghan Hindus and Sikhs Face an Uncertain Future in India

By Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal

…in 1984, anti-Muslim riots following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, the murder of a Christian missionary and his sons in 1999, riots in Gujarat under the leadership of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002, anti-Christian riots in Orissa in 2008, and the riots following the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Bill in 2019. In regard to the entire situation, attorney and Executive Board Member of the California Democratic Party,…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…what?” and he said, “Considering they don’t have a father.” This was in the 1980s. Mitt Romney came up through this highly conventional, by-the-book LDS environment where young men are groomed for leadership from the time they are 12 years old, if not younger. Yes, he was very invested in the grooming of young men, and the families most valued in the ward were cohesive and had successful strong husbands. I do know Mitt took his home teaching [an…

Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media

By Chrissy Stroop

…s as mostly atheists and agnostics when they clearly are not (although the numbers of atheists and agnostics are rising as well), the subtext that the nones haven’t fully thought through their choice to disaffiliate from religion is offensive—and it’s a prime example of how journalists talk over nones instead of to us. Bolling, by contrast, works directly with students, which gives him valuable insight into their mindset and decision making. “Some…

Secular As Kids, Religious As Adults?

By Sarah Posner

…ised with no religion to have no religion as adults goes back as far as the 1944-1955 cohorts. This trend has only intensified for more recent birth cohorts.” (emphasis mine) Zuckerman says this data is further backed up by a study, in the 1980s, by a Penn State sociologist, Hart Nelson, who found that 85% of children raised by two secular parents remained secular as adults. What’s more, two Scottish sociologists, Steve Bruce and Tony Glendinning,…

Trump Support Will Harm Catholic Church in America

By Kaya Oakes

Catholics have some atoning to do. If the polling numbers are correct (will any of us ever be able to use that phrase again without cringing?), white Catholics voted for Trump at 52 percent to the 45 percent they gave Hillary Clinton. Effectively, this means white Catholics spit in the faces of the same Latinx Catholics they have long hoped would save the American church. It’s clear how this happened. The American church, particularly the USCCB,…