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Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

…use once religiously motivated discrimination is permitted, the line has already been drawn in the wrong place. … Instead of drawing the line between night and day, the Crusaders tried to draw the line between shades of benighted bigotry.” Second, the bigots are emboldened. ADF and the other Christian nationalist organizations are going to file case after case working to expand this decision to everyone from photographers to “sandwich artists.” Ev…

Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done

By David Gushee

…guments and strategies that have failed in the court of public opinion and today in the Supreme Court. Many are already arguing about the great damage that will be done to marriage with today’s decisions. I would suggest that a more important damage to Christian witness in American culture has already been done, not by the Supreme Court but by the Christian activists; and not just today but for a generation or more. And that damage will intensify…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…ement facing even steeper financial challenges, worsened by the recession. News of a resulting restructuring effort underway in the nation’s historic flagship ecumenical organization, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), is occasionally met with the query: “You mean it’s not dead yet?” Amid all this, some liberal observers voice a new concern, which Religion Dispatches’ editors share. Have desperate ecumenical Protestan…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…egative perceptions,” he wrote on Twitter. “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” At a Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference the following month the drumbeat continued. “What are our parents around the country doing t…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…he sad state of the world. “To be Catholic—or to be a part of any religion today—is counter-cultural,” he says. “Today, people’s religion is shopping and games. What goes on at the Superbowl is like a liturgy.” The “secular churches of the mall and the stadium” he refers to are a real grievance. Shea tells me about a Jesuit priest at Boston College who would say to his students “Who is your God? I’ll tell you who your God is. Tell me what you spen…

Fighting (Over) Words: What is an Evangelical Feminist?

By Julie Ingersoll

…e meeting in St. Louis for the “Smart Girl Summit.” Honestly, when I first read about the leadership training for conservatives at the website Smart Girl Politics and at the Smart Girl Summit, I thought it was leadership training for girls—probably homeschool and Christian school girls. No. Girls, as in adult females. Sponsors of Smart Girl Summit include tea party-oriented Freedom Works, Fairtax, and American Majority, as well as a host of others…

Doing a Dukakis (But with Jesus) — Biden Does Not Need to Be More Publicly Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…, too, is infinitely malleable. It contains plenty of material that can be read to support authoritarianism, just as it contains material that can be read to support liberation. In any case, in a secular country, what two broad factions of Christians think “God” is like shouldn’t be a matter for public debate in a presidential election. But shoulds aside, is it also bad politics? Let me be clear: yes, yes it is. Graves-Fitzsimmons’ case for a majo…

Revisiting Philip Roth’s 2004 Novel that Predicted the Trump Election

By Michael Schulson

…reading is not a story of political hatred, but an intimate family drama. Politics takes place in the home, and those politics are mundane, sad, and humiliating. Jews shed each other’s blood as they fight, clumsily, over what to do. Anxious parents hit their children. Roth’s villain—the man who implements the whole grim assimilationist scheme—is a pompous, ambitious New Jersey rabbi. This is starkly different from the heroic-and-tragic, good-vers…

Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

By Jorge A. Aquino

…ngs these issues into relief. Even if we accept that the meeting cannot be read as a papal endorsement of Kim Davis and her politics, it’s still clear that Francis and Davis are in substantial agreement: Both are committed to limiting the equal standing of LGBTQ Christians, in Church and in society, because homosexuality is supposedly unnatural. In the face of that fact, the no-holds-barred defense of Francis among left-Catholics has the effect of…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…but rather concerned “a whole bundle of social traits—education, civics, trust, crime, governance structure, different conceptions of order and power and freedom”—persist today, nearly four centuries later, among the descendants of these colonists in the different regions of the US where they initially settled. “In America,” he explains in one example, “Swedish Americans tend to be more civic than French Americans, who are more civic than Italian…