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Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…unding gender and sexuality, increasing religious diversity, and declining numbers of Christians—are disrupting the religious landscape and leading to a sense of angst among American Christians that their country is turning its back on what they believe to be its Christian heritage. Accordingly, Christian nationalist rhetoric is deeply cloaked in threat narratives, prompting efforts to retain Christianity’s hegemonic status, sometimes through viol…

Carter, Gore, and the New Baptist Covenant

By Bruce Prescott

…pired fundamentalist televangelists and megachurch preachers to organize in 1979. While Jerry Falwell organized the Moral Majority, others like Adrian Rogers and Charles Stanley organized the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC, with intentions of using the machinery of the denomination to influence secular politics. This takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention was complete by 1989; purges of moderate denominational executives, agency heads, pr…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…e those classics, the story is built on a key idea of the American mode of spirituality known as “spiritual but not religious.” The Choose Your Own Adventure series that Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery created in the late 1970s is sometimes connected to wishy-washy modern practices of believing. The series title itself was even used as a put-down by Andrew Sullivan in a post on those who mix-and-match or take-and-leave and treat religious ideas…

How End-of-Life Issues Are Being Used to Thwart Health Care Reform

By Ann Neumann

…Dignity Act (on which other states have modeled their subsequent bills) in 1994; Washington adopted the Washington Initiative 1000 in 2008; Montana, by court order, legalized aid in dying in December 2008. Despite being legal, end-of-life choice is still a contested right in these states. Doctor compliance is limited and the laws have extensive restrictions and requirements including psychiatric evaluation, a diagnosed life span of less than six…

What Does Satanism Have to do With QAnon?

By David Frankfurter

…hes, modern allegations of Satanic ritual abuse in fact only go back to the 1980s in America and the U.K. Although the last popular panic about Satanic ritual abuse died down in the 1990s, the mythical image of children abducted, abused, and ceremonially sacrificed still has the power to inflame audiences. In 2016 one North Carolina believer was so enraged by the idea—spread on the internet—that children were being “ritually” abused and sacrificed…

Does E.T. Believe in God?

By Paul Wallace

…ptional.” This may not last: “Of all the many new planets found in the last 16 years, Kepler-22b may be the most likely to have inhabitants. And if it is, prepare to ratchet down your self-image.” This kind of language always alarms me a little. Not that it’s necessarily wrong, but it seems to assume that we only ascribe specialness to life because of its scarcity. It applies a kind of supply-and-demand model to life, and it’s not clear that such…

AIDS in South Africa: Women, the Church, and Global Indifference

By Jeanne Carstensen

…ly, about 11 percent of the population are infected, 7.9 percent of men and 13.6 percent of women. (In KwaZulu-Natal the rate surges to almost 16 percent, the highest in the country.) Younger women are especially vulnerable. Among 20- to 24-year-olds nationwide, 21 percent of women are positive compared to 5 percent of men. Women 25 to 29 are more than twice as likely to be positive as men in the same age group. Dr. Beverley Haddad has been on the…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…ian churches and leaders—has led to countless hate crimes, alarmingly high numbers of homeless LGBT young people, and staggering rates of depression, self-harm, and suicide among LGBT youth and adults. Of course, a growing number of churches and denominations today have rejected such a destructive understanding of human sexuality. Religion Dispatches recently compiled a list of the official positions on LGBT issues currently taught by various Chri…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…titute a crucial support group. Second, the Russian immigration in the late 1980s brought a large group of secular Jews (and non-Jews) who, being the victims of anti-Semitism, have little or no sympathy for the Arabs; whether citizens of Arab countries, Israeli citizens, or inhabitants of the West Bank. Finally, and most interestingly, the Haredim, or Ultra Orthodox. This group, mostly descended from Eastern European Jews, were traditionally (and…

What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?

By Spencer Dew

…for actual stunt raids. A celebrity self-promoter, obsessed with his poll numbers, his brand (all that was iconic at his “in-tents” jail—exposure to the elements, pink underwear, garbage food paired with televisions locked to the Food Network—was iconic of him), his solipsism was on display in a pre-interview clip from CNN where he fusses about his makeup and complains that he can’t even go out for pizza in New York without protestors complicatin…