Religion Dispatches
…Committee’s faith staff of more than a half-dozen has dwindled to one part-time slot. Its faith issues Web site led this week with greetings for Passover (which was in March) and Rosh Hashanah (which was in September). Faith consultants who once had dozens of clients did not play a role in high-profile Democratic losses in the Virginia gubernatorial race in November and in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward M. Ke…
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…to it. Students and families that don’t fit that biblical mold—LGBTQ+, non-White, non-Christian—are left out. Walters isn’t really hiding the ball or his connections to Project 2025. When Heritage president Kevin Roberts hosted Walters on his podcast, Walters gushed over Roberts, saying “the Heritage Foundation has been an incredible partner to help us develop what the plans are for the state, for our schools, for our education system.” Roberts h…
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…but it does very little to respond to the vast need being created by COVID-19 nor the pre-existing crisis facing 140 million poor and low-income people. Federal intervention thus far has largely amounted to a bail-out of Wall Street and the continued redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. Both Democrats and Republicans have celebrated the promise of $1200 direct payments for adults and $500 for children; some have said these policie…
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Since the murder of eight people at Atlanta-area spas on March 16, there’s been a fierce debate over the causes of the shooting rampage. Some, such as Ruth Graham of the New York Times, have pointed to the gunman’s exposure to the toxic sexual purity culture common to the evangelical world, and how it breeds self-loathing and misogyny. But members of the AAPI community (as well as RD senior correspondent Chrissy Stroop) have pushed back on this e…
Read More…inating interviews, Griswold says that the religious conflict can mask deep-seated economic and political problems. Nigerians who once coexisted now kill each other in a desperate struggle for resources as much as for self-esteem: “When a government fails its people, they turn elsewhere to safeguard themselves and their futures, and in Nigeria, in the beginning of the 21st century, they have turned first to religion. Here, then, is the truth behin…
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…le were appalled,” said one of the students, adding, “especially as lawyers-to-be, who are trained and licensed to practice the law—to disobey that law, that seemed completely counterintuitive to all of us.” Still, some knew what they needed to “regurgitate,” in order to get a good grade. “It was obvious by the substance of the class during the semester the answer that they wanted,” said one of the students. “The majority of people that I am acqua…
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…our issues in the cold light of day. We have to recognize the astonishing march of extreme right-wing and white nationalist groups and white supremacy across civil society. We have to examine the damage that’s been done, although it’s going to take us years to fully appreciate it, if we’re even capable of fully appreciating it. And we have to get out of our comfort zones and bubbles. How do you reach out to people who don’t listen to reason? It’s…
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…of his time; his novelty lay in bringing the hidden logic of the new paper-and-credit economy to light. But Law’s views were even more radical—money is what it enables, nothing more: Money is not the value for which goods are exchanged, but the value by which they are exchanged: the use of money is to buy goods and silver while money is of no other use. You see his point. Paper money is no more than credit, in that it enables the exchange of good…
Read More…and the National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher. Evangelical-land knows its skeletons: the anti-Mormonism, of course, and the assertion, dating of course back to Luther, that the Catholic Church is Antichrist. But these are all political animals who understand that co-belligerency (even with Mormons!) in the culture wars against gays and feminists requires tamping down their own theological differences. To sum up: we have a presiden…
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…e case? Is there a way to construe courtship that does not engage in female-directed fear-mongering? Or a way that does not paint masculinity as inherently dangerous, and does not impose a sense of worthlessness or brokenness on a woman who has already “given away her most precious gift”? Perhaps not. But if the Duggar book, and its reception, are any indication, the discourse around courtship is growing and becoming more female-directed, cultivat…
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