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Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…the Republican party over Trump, and…it didn’t happen. We’ll see different numbers floating around (there are as many measures of evangelicals as there are demographers), but preliminary indications are that the white evangelical vote for the GOP dipped little, if at all. https://twitter.com/robertpjones/status/1324439825907355655 Chrissy: Well, Dan, I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to publish a fair bit of media criticism over the course…

80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…elby began flickering across news sites in the UK and then the US just two days after Obama’s rout of Romney, I couldn’t help wondering if the Anglican Communion might not have a few things to learn from the demographic configuration of the GOP defeat. The American GOP is, after all, something of a doppelganger of the racial, ethnic, class, and social-ideological archetype embodied in the apparently exceptionally gifted but otherwise globally unre…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…regnancy up to 12 weeks, the German one lays down that women must have counselling—in which they are told that fetuses have rights—before undergoing the procedure. That would be hard to imagine in France.) Some reasons for the French-German difference are clear enough. Any popular street movement that shades into the far-right feels toxic in Germany, more so than in France, for the obvious historical reasons. But perhaps a deeper, albeit unproveab…

Good Friday and Purim: Non-Harmonic Convergences

By Naomi Seidman

…d be “falling on” (what a choice of words) the gloomiest of Christian holy days is just an unfortunate coincidence. Let it be said: we’re not laughing about you. At least I don’t think so. Before I taught at the GTU, my main encounter with priests and ministers was in jokes, where they shared the stage with a rabbi. I love knowing priests, and they’re usually happy to know me, too. It comes in handy, from time to time—for instance a few weeks ago,…

Pope Francis: Culture Warriors Out, “Collaboration and Consultation” In

By Patricia Miller

…raception mandate and same-sex marriage, is singing a different tune these days. He greeted the news that a gay group has been given long-sought permission to march in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade as if nothing would make him happier. He told the Boston Globe’s John Allen that the days of threatening to use communion to discipline pro-choice Catholic politicians were “in the past.” Like all good politicians, Dolan knows which way the wind b…

Hijab: Culture, Custom, and Chaos

By Amina Wadud

…ss to matter so damn much. There I said it. Hope I wont be censored… These days we are hot and heavy over the recent burqa debates. It’s always a crazy thing to discuss—and remember, I am at the age where laying back is like the greatest thing. I used to run around in a tizzy over these matters, but mercifully no one asked me during the most recent debates and I got to keep those overpressed heartbeats for other things. But let me NOT then get int…

Note to Religious Liberals: God Does Take Sides

By Daniel Schultz

…between being nice (or engaging in “civil discourse,” as it’s called these days) and being potent. All the commitment to moral suasion, to building consensus, to reconciliation between political opponents, all the commitment in the world to “speaking out” about your values isn’t going to accomplish squat. What will? Identity politics. I’m afraid they’re everything these days. Simply put, the religious left is far less effective than the religious…

A New Year’s Health Care Sobriety Test for Religious Progressives: It’s Not Obama

By Peter Laarman

…re of his political identity and about how politics is really played these days. But honeymoons, even for dewy-eyed liberals, have a short half-life. Maybe it was the Nobel speech and the Afghanistan surge. Maybe it was the pitiful wrist slap given to the big bankers—a “woodshed” experience deftly avoided by the bosses at Goldman, Morgan, and Citi, due, allegedly, to Eastern seaboard fog (metaphor, anyone?)—on the very same day that White House op…

Water Water Everywhere

By Amina Wadud

…ry time I use the toilet. This is known as istinjaa’. In my fundamentalist days, I used to carry my own little cosmetic bottle to fill at the sink before entering a public toilet outside of the Muslim world. But in my minimalist old days, I may suffer the loss, but I manage without it. That’s why I love bathrooms in the Muslim world, which tend to have this nifty little hose attached to the toilet, or just next to the toilet paper dispenser. Perso…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…