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This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…ourt majority. But despite the fact that they’ve achieved so much as their numbers have dwindled, and often in deeply unorthodox ways, most commentators fail to mention, perhaps even to see, what enabled them do it. Our new book on evangelicalism in the US emphasizes that institution-building over more than a century has created a vast and evolving network of institutions that spreads ideas, mobilizes energy, and amplifies political and theologica…

Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

By Aliyya Swaby

…in Panama live in the major cities of Panama City and Colón, with smaller numbers in other provincial cities. The Panamanian government does not collect information on its religious composition, but a 2009 international report estimated the number of Muslims at around 24,000, comprising less than one percent of the country’s population. Most are of Lebanese, Palestinian or Indian descent. Though small, Panama’s Muslim community has grown increasi…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ncovered (31), the number of Israeli soldiers killed in action (29). These numbers will likely change every hour. In the weeks leading up to the Israeli invasion of Gaza and now as increasingly grisly accounts and bloody images emerge of Palestinian homes and hospitals blown apart, American Jews are conflicted—alternately protesting against or rallying behind the Israeli state, following each development obsessively, or turning their faces away fr…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…the evils of consumerism. After World War II, the Virgin went global. Since 1945, at least 700 apparitions have been reported, according to the count of anthropologist Paolo Apolito, the majority of them in North America. Most of those occurred after the apparition in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina (beginning in 1981) had begun luring millions of pilgrims from every corner of Christendom, who then returned home to find the Virgin awaiting them. Su…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…t even so, America’s trajectory of rapid religious disaffiliation since the 1990s seems bound to catch up with the white, right-wing Christian population eventually. Conservative Christians and social scientists have already begun to spill a fair bit of ink over the question of how the coronavirus pandemic may alter the prospects for Christianity in the future. Some conservative Christians are openly celebrating our present crisis as a supposed sp…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n? We are going, in one fell swoop, to take on more debt without paying for a dollop of it than we have thus far doled out to fund the entire fiasco in Iraq. After all, when the numbers get this large, they become unreal. So what does it matter if we pass it off to tomorrow? More on that in my next column….

The Tea Party are Sodomites

By Jay Michaelson

…(Isa. 13:19, Jer. 49:18, Jer. 50:40, Lam. 4:6, Amos 4:11, Zeph. 2:9, Matt. 10:15, Matt. 11:23-24, Luke 10:12), or the suddenness of Divine punishment (Luke 17:29). In the gospels, Jesus mentions Sodom as an example of divine punishment. Had “Sodom” been about homosexuality, would he not have even mentioned that fact, even in passing? Indeed, the sole biblical reference to sexual immorality as connected with Sodom comes in the short epistle of Jud…

Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

By Frances Kissling

…on women who want it but don’t have access would reduce carbon emissions by 15%. No coercion, just meeting the unmet need. This, of course needs to be balanced by less consumption in the developed world. Statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and greenhouse gas impact of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than some of the other environmentally sensitive practices people might e…

The Divide Between “Trumpvangelicals” and the Rest of Us

By Jonathan Orbell

…licals of this stripe have spent years in the shadow of culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, ideating a more winsome form of Christian engagement in the public square. And yet, despite all their hard work, Trumpvangelicals dominate the political landscape. All of this points to the chasm between elite evangelicals’ vision for the movement and the on-the-ground reality—between ideal evangelicalism and evangelicalism as it “actually exists,” at leas…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…he rate of poverty among black vs. white Americans hasn’t changed since the 1960s). In The Fire Next Time, whose essays were first published in 1962 but damningly relevant 52 years later, James Baldwin writes that for blacks, “[American society] is entirely hostile, and, by its nature, seems determined to cut you down …[as it] has cut down so many in the past and cuts down so many every day…The brutality with which Negroes are treated in this coun…