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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…litz in partnership with Wallbuilders, headed by Christian nationalist and Republican Party operative, David Barton, and the National Legal Foundation, on whose board Barton also sits. The Project Blitz “Steering Team” includes Lea Carawan of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Bill Dallas of United in Purpose (a Christian Right strategic and capacity building organization), Buddy Pilgrim, a businessman who served as National Director for…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…was underway by 1984, before its adherents consolidated power in 2000. The central players orchestrating male-only leadership in the SBC are also some of its best known public figures, like Paige Patterson, ousted in June from his position as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Judge Paul Pressler, his ally in the takeover; and Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Outside the SBC, sig…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…for American Jewish attitudes toward Israel. Before that, Israel was not a central part of American Jewish identity except for those committed Zionists. While today, for supporters of AIPAC on the right and some Jewish supporters of BDS on the left, Israel is a central tenet of their identity, it is a more complicated story given the last almost half century of Jewish life in America. Correction: In an earlier version of this article, an important…

Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence

By Ira Chernus

…with Gandhi than some of his fellows. Yet he, too, was bound to resist the central points in Gandhian nonviolence. Buber could never accept Gandhi’s fundamental premise: the ultimate goal of spiritual life is to serve others so completely that one’s own sense of individual self, which is illusory to begin with, totally disappears. In fact Buber spent pages of his classic work, Ich und Du, arguing against that view. In the rest of the book, he expl…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e credited Merton with returning him and his fellow monks’ thoughts to the central values of mysticism and of solitude. It is only in such a manner that the monk can find the divine love in which celibacy makes sense. Delightfully, the image of such God-infused love came to Father Matthew on his first experience with a motorcycle. “One day everything fell together and I was mounted,” he says somewhat playfully and naughtily. “Is this a good way to…

New Poll Shows Gays and Lesbians Believe in God

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t faith and culture. “A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today. What’s surprising is the “best-selling author” who has made this startling statement is none other than George Barna – who is a conservative author and pollster. His latest poll is a spiritual profile of…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…traditionally varies according to the Tibetan lunar calendar, in order to promote tourism. Of the various policies implemented by Chinese governmental agencies in recent years two have been the greatest source of friction between the clergy and the government. The control of the number of monks and nuns in monastic institutions, and the implementation of “patriotic re-education.” Since it is largely these policies that have brought the clergy int…

What Religion Looks Like, Wisconsin Edition

By Kim Bobo

…order that the rights of all members of the society may be maintained and promoted, we support innovative bargaining procedures that include representatives of the public interest in negotiation and settlement of labor-management contracts, including some that may lead to forms of judicial resolution of issues. We reject the use of violence by either party during collective bargaining or any labor/management disagreement. We likewise reject the p…

We Were Powerless: Addiction, the Will, and the Evangelical Roots of the Twelve Steps

By John Blevins

…ation stone upon which our Society has since been built.” AA describes the central role of spiritual conversion in recovery from alcoholism, even as it relies on medical terms naming the condition as a disease. In America, then, for almost two hundred years, religion, medical science, and psychology have been involved in an intricate, shifting alliance in response to addiction. We Admitted We Were Powerless For the last half of the twentieth centu…

Steve Bannon and the Conservative “Cafeteria Catholics”

By Patricia Miller

…s are best dealt with at the most local level practicable rather than by a central authority. This offers a convenient justification for Republican attacks on “big government” and reasonable levels of taxation that support federal anti-poverty programs, which the Catholic hierarchy generally supports. As O’Loughlin notes, this is very much in line with Breitbart’s coverage of the church under Bannon, which was “aimed at bolstering conservative ide…