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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…ligious institutions were, once again, growing stronger. This ideological exchange marked a new stage in Orthodox Christianity characterized by close ties between U.S. evangelicals and Russian conservatives.[16] The question we should ask instead is what Putin’s celebration of family values tells us about where Russian national and international politics are heading. Encompassing a wide range of global trends, from anti-LGBT legislation to a growi…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…meaningful, and to say it well, will require the art of imagination that religious energies have traditionally been marshaled to inspire. It is for this reason that I hope to devote further energy and attention to the marvelous and complex overlap between religion and art in the new year. But between now and then, there will be much food and drink, parties to attend, football games and concerts and films to watch. May it be so for all of you, too….

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

…ded to build a facility, sought to make use of Public School 15 in the Bronx. The New York City Department of Education excluded the church, citing its policy of excluding both religious services of worship and meetings of partisan political groups at public schools. The courts consistently upheld the DOE’s policy—until 2001. The Supreme Court’s 2001 ruling in Good News Club v. Milford Central School changed everything, opening up new possibilitie…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…mative. He was a hopped-up, stoned version of Jon Stewart, who once told Fox News, which had charged that his news program was slanted: “but my show is on Comedy Central!” Thompson was able to awaken his readers to the absurdity of their lives by documenting the absurdity of his. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s comment to Dan Quayle in their vice presidential debate: Max Blumenthal is no Hunter Thompson. Blumenthal’s Goliath is not funny, nor is it…

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From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America

By Susannah Crockford

…cally, which he calls unknowable. The authorities didn’t respond to their experience as they expected, which led them to question that authority—to question what acceptable knowledge is—and as a result their boundaries blurred. The Hills’ story is an instructive example of what happens to people when they’re not believed. The racial bias of the establishment is evident as the Hills’ interracial marriage and their civil rights work are an important…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…international headlines in recent years when it tried to introduce a tough new anti-homosexuality law, which allowed life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexuality”. Although the courts struck it down, the environment has proved too dangerous for a growing number of Ugandans. But in Kenya they face constant attacks, kidnappings, extortion and police harassment. Recently, almost a dozen LGBT people were taken by the United Nation’s refugee agency…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…oar over Louie Giglio’s scrapped benediction at the inauguration. It’s an excellent example of how even a “new” evangelical still refuses to disavow the culture wars, even as he’s chosen to largely focus on another issue (in Giglio’s case, human trafficking). Giglio wasn’t known for jeremiads against gays, and President Obama had indeed previously approved of his work against the scourge of trafficking. But Giglio refused to back away from a 15-ye…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…theist Delusions (Yale University Press), Reitan’s work chops away at the “new” of new atheism. The subtle notion of “new” suggests in itself some progress, which, again, we need to revisit without the glorification of man on the mind. Christopher Lasch’s question is as urgent today as it was when he posed it 18 years ago in his book The True and Only Heaven How does it happen that serious people continue to believe in progress, in the face of mas…

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…he gig is up for these folks. They’ve finally realized that no amount of tax or regulation cutting, no amount of abortion or same-sex marriage banning, is going to bring back their jobs. They’re culturally alienated from the Democratic Party, with it’s tilt toward educated, urban elites and people of color. That leaves Trump as their last and best bet. And as the primary contests move into the Rust Belt and Northeast, this Catholic base may turn o…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…before the State of Israel was established, conservative evangelicals had expressed extreme hostility to Islam, “the imposter religion,” as it was known in some late 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant circles. A century and a half ago Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, spent a few weeks in Jerusalem. He was despondent before the visit, and even more so afterwards. Jerusalem, for Melville, represented the past, not the future. In his journa…