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

By Andrew L. Seidel

…om rights. An assistant football coach at the Bremerton School District in Washington used his access to students and the stage that is the football field to kneel at the center of the field in prayer with his students after games. The Supreme Court struck down school-sponsored prayers in 1962 and confirmed that this applies to prayer at public school football games in 2000. Several federal courts have also specifically held that when a coach pray…

The Complicity of #NeverTrump Evangelicals in a Demagogue’s Rise

By Neil J. Young

…more resistant in the wake of his victory. In a bruising editorial in the Washington Post last week, George W. Bush’s former speechwriter Michael Gerson argued evangelicals “must not bear the mark of Trump.” Gerson outlined Trump’s spotty personal life and unsavory character, but also his fueling of ethnic tensions, his proposed discrimination of a religious group, and his perverse and even “highly sexualized view of power as dominance” as reason…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nfirmed that he had a short temper and was prone to violence. She told the Washington Post that he used to beat her, and was “mentally unstable.” On the other hand, the Amaq Agency, the news outlet of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, stated that the shooting “was carried out by an Islamic State fighter.” Omar himself called 911 shortly after entering the bar in Orlando saying that he had pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Ba…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…irst step.” As Salerno reported earlier this year, Tomlinson is pursuing a number of legal challenges to anti-LGBT laws in the region, including colonial-era sodomy laws. Salerno wrote that “primarily US-based Evangelical Christian organizations have been active” in the region, “preaching that homosexuals are deviant and dangerous, and fomenting opposition to any expansion of LGBT rights.” The “Queering Paradigms” conference was held in Grand Caym…

Falling in Love With the Earth: Francis’ Faithful Ecology

By Jacob J. Erickson

…nt summary of the chapters, check out Christiana Z. Peppard’s piece at The Washington Post.) We hear those litanies of devastation often these days and simple reflection on global warming can send anyone into a spiral of ethical helplessness and moral ambiguity. But there’s something in the rhetorical feel, the affective language of this letter that might help pull a reader through. The letter’s laments are couched in the language of praise. Franc…

The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…n and politics found in the pages of The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media of comparable reach and influence. This earlier history is easy to ignore since the problematic features of evangelical Protestantism were much less consequential until the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Two portentous, virtually simultaneous developments changed that. First, evangelical Protestantism was catapulted from th…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…African Anglican Church because she married another woman in December. The Washington Post’s Max Bearak reports: South Africa’s Anglican church, where Tutu-Van Furth until recently practiced as a priest, isn’t ready to accept those with alternative sexualities as members of its clergy. Tutu-Van Furth was ordained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and since the Episcopal Church, the U.S.-based branch of the Anglican Communion, accep…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…be live-streamed, starting Wednesday, June 15). The bishops will take up a number of issues, from the revised liturgy to assisted suicide, but their conversations are sure to be dominated by an issue that has been dogging them since the mid-1980s: sexually abusive priests and the bishops who enabled them. Ten years after Cardinal Bernard Law became the poster bishop for failed religious leadership, new revelations of episcopal misfeasance threaten…

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland

By Haroon Moghul

…ring who it is being directed to and where it is apparently originating. A number of Palestinians are Christians, and that Christianity is of course traced back to the time of Jesus himself. The Palestinian weekend is Friday and Sunday. In addition to being the world’s most annoying and dissatisfying weekend schedule (there should be an award for that, or maybe financial compensation), the days reflect the primary religious affiliations of Palesti…

And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?

By Shaul Magid

…ancestry generations ago, a Jewish spouse, Jewish friends etc. In terms of numbers, Jews by religion or no religion make up 2.2% of the U.S. population, but if you add “People with a Jewish affinity” it rises to 2.7%, so that this category of people who are not considered Jews by the Jewish community but identify as Jews is nearly 25% of the Jews by religion or no religion, those we conventionally call “Jews.” The fact that there are so many Ameri…