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Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…east as long as I can remember, which makes sense, given that I was born in 1980, the beginning of the “Reagan revolution.” That’s the year Republican nominee Ronald Reagan’s “great national crusade to make America great again” took the country by storm, and the Christian nationalist evangelical Right became an entrenched Republican constituency, transforming American politics in ways that are still playing out. But somehow, in just a few short we…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…isease-bearing foreigner channels White British paranoia about the growing numbers of Eastern European Jews flocking to Britain’s shores from the 1870s onward. In the episode, I point out that Dracula—and vampires by extension—became the quintessential anti-Christian villain, not least because of how they echo conspiracy theories, circulating almost a decade before the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that powerful Jewish elites…

What the Ferguson Protests Mean for Religious Progressive Activism

By Shannon Craigo-Snell

…the religious grounding of progressive social action has faltered since the 1960s. In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act changed the rules concerning immigration. This legislation has altered the demographics of the United States and contributed to a more religiously diverse population. Then 1976, Christian televangelist Jerry Falwell organized “I Love America” rallies, a precursor to the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. The Christian right declared…

Liberty University’s #NeverTrump Petition Is No Shot Heard ‘Round the World

By Anita Little

…ls out from the group, the defection looks lackluster. Soon-to-be released numbers sent to RD from the Public Religion Research Institute show that young evangelicals actually support Trump more than evangelicals over 50 do. Furthermore, if evangelical stronghold Liberty University is any indication, Trump can count on college-educated young evangelicals on November 8th as well. Since president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Jr., endorsed h…

The Power in Mitt’s “Long Underwear” Quip

By Joanna Brooks

…nowhere close to the Obama campaign’s $60 million first-quarter haul. The numbers have been met with a fresh round of handwringing about GOP heavyweights still sitting on the sidelines as well as Romney’s weaknesses against Obama in 2012. But there may be, just may be, signs that Romney is gaining in one strategic capacity that could prove crucial to his campaign: humor. Sweating it out while jogging up and down a July 4 parade route in New Hamps…

Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?

By Evan Derkacz

…one doubt that the Beatles would’ve topped Jesus in a popularity contest in 1966? * * * *Another interesting datum from the poll, overshadowed by Jesus’ disappointing finish, is the vertiginous decline of Colin Powell. When asked “Is there any person you can think of whom you used to consider a hero but now do not?” Powell was the number one answer (amazing what trading on your considerable reputation in a disingenuous presentation widely credited…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…y a member of the Anglicized elite, led a Sufi order which appealed to the spiritual leanings of rural, lower-class Indian Muslims, had no exposure to a Westernized education system, and expressly justified his moral condemnation of same-sex relations according to his well-known Urdu-language interpretation of the Qur’an. On what basis can one claim that, despite all this, Riza Khan had still internalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outloo…

The Ethics of Everest

By Michael Schulson

…done so from the start. Why climb it? someone asked George Mallory, back in 1922. “Because it is there,” Mallory answered, famously.The mountain’s not-quite-rational allure comes from a staid geological metric: namely, altitude. There are harder mountains to climb, and remoter ones, and even, arguably, taller ones. But as the highest mountain in the world, Everest is quantifiably unique. It offers us awe, verified by geology. Getting there is a mo…

Does Barack need the Black Church?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…erve as mayor of and Congressman from the city of Atlanta, respectively. In 1984 and 1988, Democratic presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson turned the Democratic National Convention into a tradition revival service by rendering what were arguably two of the most dynamic and stirring addresses in convention history. And in recent years, former Congressmen Rev. William Gray III of Philadelphia and Rev. Floyd Flake of New York attest to the c…

Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer

By Christine Wicker

…e success. Rates are still high, “but divorce is not spoken of as it was in 1960s and 1970s when many minimized the damage that could be done to children and families by no fault divorce. There is a recognition that divorce is not the instrument of self actualization that many people thought it was,” he told me. Moore’s ideas are intriguing, especially because he’s speaking in an arena where new ideas have often seemed anathema. Screaming and demo…