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Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…second lady Karen Pence presided. There were no crowds, no vendors, and no signs of any sort that a Trump rally was about to take place, apart from a muscular private security guard stationed at the parking lot entrance discreetly inquiring if I were there for “the event.” The venue, a white tent set up in the parking lot of the Baker Lofts (Holland’s “premier wedding venue,” a space “full of charm and urban elegance!”), created a genteel and inti…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nd stood up and told their stories, got involved and built grassroots support to extend the freedom to marry to all loving and committed couples.” It’s frustrating to see the legislation die while there is a governor willing to sign it, of course, but the struggle in Maryland also shows that religious arguments—and big money threats to delegates’ job security—can still convince lawmakers to continue to treat some of their fellow citizens as second…

Praying for a Victory: Packed Supreme Court Takes Up Yet Another Christian Nationalist Cause

By Andrew L. Seidel

…it as a signal of incoming ethics charges, but the Institute took it as a sign to repeat the “deceitful narrative” to the Supreme Court. If you’ve followed the last decade of the Supreme Court’s work to weaponize religious freedom, this is unsurprising. The justices themselves alter narratives, history, facts, and reality to reverse engineer decisions that, for instance, allow a 40-foot tall Christian cross to be rebuilt with government funds and…

Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

…e that the “acceptance of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality was a sign of “liberalism” taking over the SBC and called the approval of the resolution by messengers “a watershed moment” for the decline of the denomination.” Further, he commented, “When you decide to let the culture interpret the Scripture and you need cultural cues to translate the Bible, the horse is out of the barn.” MacArthur was not alone. Albert Mohler, president of th…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…itness, atonement, and sacrifice. As Dan Berrigan intoned over the flames, signaling that specificity but also a wider moral audience, “We’re all part of this.” When I first learned of this protest, many years ago, I was taken by its power, its evocative symbolism, and the political risk it signaled. I wrote about it in my first book. And I regularly look at the words Daniel Berrigan wrote to explain the protest. They hang in the entryway to my ho…

Arkansas Governor Admits RFRA Bill Is Not Like Federal Version

By Sarah Posner

…morning, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said he would not sign HB 1228, a Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed by the legislature yesterday. The reason: it does not mirror the federal RFRA. Hutchinson has just exposed his fellow Republicans who so adamantly supported Indiana’s recently-enacted RFRA on the erroneous grounds that it is the same as the federal version. Although the Arkansas bill differs from Indiana’s RFRA (and I…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…cheap. A package of 50 classes in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, sans early sign-up perks, costs nearly as much as a month-long membership at my local YMCA. Meanwhile, back on SoulCycle’s website, instructors describe their work in frankly spiritual languag…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…understandable, even as I may disagree with them. I do not think those who signed the petition defending Kahane’s right to speak in Brussels in 1975 should be marginalized from the Jewish community. And I don’t think Sarsour and Mallory should be viewed as antisemites by association. I think Kahane was a racist and I think Farrakhan is a racist. But if we make the case that Kahane and Farrakhan should have no role whatsoever in rational discourse—…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…srael moved closer to the United States in the 1960s when the Soviet Union signaled that it would back the Arab world. The mainstream Israeli left, perhaps best represented by Haaretz, supports the uprising for democracy and removal of Hosni Mubarak as a positive shift in Middle East politics. A January 31 editorial, while not explicitly calling for the removal of President Mubarak, hopes that movements for democracy in other autocratic nations in…

“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…r queer. Love Won Out conferences, sponsored by Focus on the Family, are designed to reach conservative Christians in churches and political organizations who may have never considered the issue of homosexuality. Their aim is to establish referral networks between the churches and ex-gay ministries. When a young person divulges to a pastor or religious leader that she is queer, the church will immediately refer her to an ex-gay ministry and encour…