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The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…heology. And now we have a new wave of evangelicals who are part of that cause. I never took Liberation Theology because I went to evangelical school. They planted the seeds early. Unfortunately, they did it nicely. They built relationships from the late ’80s through to the ’90s, and by the time they said what their agenda was, they already had lots of bishops. It worked well in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda. And most of the bishops there were trained in…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…rtant point is that it isn’t innocuous. It causes the heart to become calloused and creates deep chasms between individuals that can only be crossed with self-reflection, because, as Smith states, “A child’s personality grows by reaching out to others, by feeling identified with them, by acknowledging the common dignity of all men.” Calls for education reform and “protecting” children reside at the core of Christian nationalism because when childr…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…Under Fire for Suggesting Moses Influenced Founding Fathers.” The media focused on the Culture Wars aspects of the controversy, which isn’t surprising. Back in 2010, in what RD’s Lauri Lebo aptly called the “Texas Textbook Massacre,” a Christian Right bloc on the SBOE pushed through curriculum standards promoting Christian Americanism, an ideology claiming that, as Mark Chancey writes,1 “America was founded to be a Christian nation governed by Bib…

Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist

By John D. Carlson

…ood the deeper moral issues beneath. God willing, Obama will never have to use force against Iranian or North Korean nuclear facilities, but this is no cause to overlook the misery these nations bring their people. There are also moral responsibilities in war—like those that come from invading a country and overthrowing its government. The US may have been in Afghanistan for eight years, but it never committed the resources to succeed. Obama, foll…

Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…orbed. Jewish Studies is well-positioned to engage this task precisely because of the variegated cultures it studies and because of the field’s history. Decolonizing Jewish Studies is a multidirectional enterprise. On the one hand, Jewish pasts and presents have been explicitly (mis)appropriated under various imperial and religious-supremacist ideologies. Think of Augustine summoning the Jew to witness and testify to Christian hegemony, or of cons…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…he POTUS declare his vigorous support for gay marriage (to resounding applause and boos) and the religious right declare its vigorous support of Chick-fil-A (to resounding applause and boos). The old hymn “Sweet By and By,” beloved in Southern Gospel circles, promises that “in the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.” During this crucial iteration of the culture wars, which never seem to be quite fully won nor yet fully lost, Ha…

WikiLacks: Did Clinton Campaign Mock Catholics? Not Really

By Patricia Miller

…nt of Catholic Democrats. “Catholics are all too keenly aware of both the damage of sexual abuse on victims—sometimes life threatening—as well as the connection between sexual abuse and the abuse of power.” It’s an irony that I’m sure will be lost on the Trump campaign—as well as his “Catholic” supporters….

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…aph, When Christians Were Jews. The only two New Testament books that even use the title “Christian” (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16) present the term as a label applied by outsiders. This is not to deny that the shooter’s proof-texts use anti-Jewish language, but to acknowledge that their authors fit into a broad Jewish matrix and their texts originally addressed specific groups of Jews rather than all Jews. The apostle Paul spoke to the Thessal…

Culture Warriors Surrender, But Battles Rage On

By Patricia Miller

…ify concepts that have always seemed culturally implicit,” like who should use the men’s room and who should use the woman’s room. Part of this, writes Green, is a backlash against the move toward legalizing same-sex marriage, which destablilized a long-established gender binary, with anxieties first expressing themselves as requests for exemptions from participating in same-sex marriage ceremonies and more recently in the right of states to contr…

Philly Gives Doctors Wide Leeway with Religious Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…mend that adolescent patients be counseled proactively about contraceptive use as part of routine exams, particularly about emergency contraceptives and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), because of their potential to dramatically reduce teen pregnancy. The AAP “encourage[s] routine counseling and advance emergency-contraception prescription as one part of a public health strategy to reduce teen pregnancy,” while ACOG now recommends “LAR…