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The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…a sweeping financial regulatory bill.” So who do you suppose is buying high-priced tickets to these events? Well, you could get an idea about that from a profile in today’s Times on the rise and rise of corporate fixer Tony Podesta (“The Proud Lobbyist” reads the Times headline). Tony boasts that he lobbied on 25 different issues related to Wall Street regulation for major players like Bank of America. And yes, this proud lobbyist is indeed the br…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…s, their sermons are fair game. Were instructions given on filling out anti-HERO petition?-A,” suggesting that the city was attempting to discover whether the petition organizers knew some of the collected signatures may have been invalid. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from RD. Even if the city does go to court tomorrow and narrow the the subpoenas’ scope, the damage has already been don…

Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…e might also view Bush’s emphasis on “compassionate conservatism” and local-level faith-based engagement as an extension of a longer-term Republican enthusiasm for community volunteerism. George H. W. Bush, for example, famously referenced “a thousand points of light… all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good” in his 1989 inaugural address and at various other times during his presidency. 3. Faith…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…ies of clericalism is beyond logical explanation. The same goes for the now-famous “Who am I to judge?” line about same-sex love that won Francis such favor in both mainstream and gay press. Two intertwined issues emerge. One is that every human being is called to judge what is good, to recognize love when they see it, and to acknowledge the value of committed relationships as part of what constitutes a strong social foundation. To assume that “ju…

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…t first encounter was charged with trepidation and fear. McBath, a Lutheran-turned-Pentecostal whose family has roots in the civil rights movement, had yet to meet a religious leader who saw gun violence as a spiritual and moral issue and was willing commit to speaking out about it. Schenck, whose organization bills itself as “America’s only Christian outreach to top-level government officials in Washington, DC ,” is a white evangelical with close…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ts has made its orthodoxy an issue. What will come of this ideological push-me-pull-you remains to be seen, not just in this election cycle but in coming decades. Which brings me back to Tertullian. It often appeared as if the rigorist perspective he represented was winning, though ultimately it did not. And while it may be tempting for those on the political left to hope for an ever-more absurdist brand of Republicanity as an easier heresy to def…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er mind about gay couples adopting children and decided to allow a question-of-conscience vote after having dinner with a lesbian couple who care for eight foster children. about adoption, voted against the law but 75 members of her conservative coalition joined left-wing parties in backing the change. Some saw the whole abrupt shift and quick vote as a question of coalition politics that may strengthen her hand in the next election. From the Inde…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…walk the streets of Paris in niqab and short shorts. The point of the dress-up act was to show the absurdity of the French burqa ban. I love the idea because it raises so many questions. Women who are supposedly being objectified by the men in their lives are told they will be “liberated” by going uncovered. But what about women who are objectified and feel they need to act as sexual objects by the men in their lives? Do they not deserve the prote…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Indeed, religious belief and participation has a strong correlation to self-reported feelings of happiness and well-being. However, new research by Ed Diener and colleagues on Gallup data from 2005 to 2009 shows that the correlation between religion and happiness is amplified by economic misery, with “People living in nations or states with more difficult circumstances… substantially more likely to be religious.” In circumstances of prosperity and…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …