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5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…im on his view of the end-times and whether Jesus Christ will reign from Jerusalem or a New Jerusalem in the Americas. “I understand my faith better than you do,” says Romney. “I’m not sure,” Mickelson says. Also pressed on LDS doctrine on abortion, Romney says, “You don’t understand my faith like I do,” very much on the defensive. “Having been a leader in my Church—a bishop and a stake president—I understand my Church better than you do.” Romney…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…he travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux wrote earlier this month in the New York Times about communities across the South where factories have closed as jobs went overseas, a shift that has been broadcast as part of an effort “to uplift impoverished people” around the world. But such heroism is hypocritical. Theroux writes, I found towns in South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas that looked like towns in Zimbabwe, just as overlooked…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ama is handling the US relationship with Israel. Whatever that means.) The New York Jewish Week, which is quite conservative on such matters, drilled down further into these figures in an editorial last month: Those statistics might come as a shock to those who list Israel as the most important issue. The political divide in the Jewish community between Orthodox Jews and the rest of American Jewry is reflected in the fact that Orthodox Jews suppor…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…s to support Israel, uncritically, and to let President Obama know that “Jerusalem is not a settlement.” Of all the things to focus on, why did Palin choose this contentious topic? What is the importance of the Holy City for the Alaskan contender—and why did she directly quote Prime Minister Netanyahu’s retort to Obama about the administration’s call to freeze settlement activity in Jerusalem? Palin’s love affair with Israel is nothing new. In Jun…

Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today

By Kaya Oakes

…hurch has become much more volatile. There are a lot of people reading the New York Times op-ed page. And that’s unfortunate, because a lot of people just read the same thing. I lament that, because most people who care about Catholic stuff read from a niche. Being able to make sense of opposing views is something we’re less used to. I include myself in this. What is the role of a public theologian such as yourself in our increasingly secular soci…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Court to Charge ISIS with Gender-Based Persecution The City University of New York School of Law has teamed up with Madre, a New York-based women’s rights group, and the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq to petition the International Criminal Court to bring charges against the Islamic State for gender-based persecution, reports BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder: The ICC is not obligated to take up these charges, but if Bensouda were to convinced to…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…eform proposals. The other kind of evangelicals are the sort of people who run outfits like The Fellowship Foundation and the National Prayer Breakfast, and run around speaking at Evangelical colleges, think tanks, law schools and so forth, working to influence government and world affairs directly while bypassing the democratic process. How to deal with this? A few thoughts: First, all religious organizations should to be taxed in exactly the sam…

Beth Moore’s Departure Could Hurt Southern Baptists and Move Them Further Right

By Daniel Schultz

…ckwaves will last, or if they will spread across denominations or into the world of politics. It would be a mistake to fall into the common evangelical error of overestimating the impact of individual changes while simultaneously neglecting the importance of social trends. A talented and charismatic teacher, speaker and writer, Moore helped a generation of evangelical women form identities, if not separate from men, then not quite beholden to them…

Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”

By Frederick Clarkson

…as the best way to promote true religion. Our original national motto speaks to the way that our religious, ethnic and racial diversity is a source of greatness: E Pluribus Unum–out of many, one. This is nowhere more true than in religion. Jefferson once explained that the normal rule in politics was reversed when talking about religion; for religion, “divided we stand, united we fall.” Our diversity itself protects us from government trying to co…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…ocalyptically-aroused participants in the Christian Right’s new political crusades, this involves the struggle against Satan in the End Times. If you think that references to the Crusades are far fetched, consider that at the Christian Right’s 2009 Values Voter Summit in Washington DC, the exhibit hall had a table from the ultra-right Catholic group Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) for whom the Crusades and Inquisition were high points of Christi…