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The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, identical books printed in massive print runs, replete with all sorts of readerly helps, from running headers at the top of the page to chapter and verse numbers below. Imagine that: the common Protestant practice of “proof-texting” (citing one verse as a way to capture the essence of biblical truth) would have been impossible before the advent of the printing press, when Bibles first began to have section breaks, chapters, and verses (none of t…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…inclusion, and fair participation—we could find ourselves new allies in a crucial time. But how exactly could this happen, if our politics isn’t merely contextually irrelevant, but factually wrong and rhetorically aggressive? We cannot capture these opportunities if well-funded persons who are actively distorting the discourse monopolize our politics. The more the misinformation experts can find platforms, the more they hurt America. And so th…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…ss writes in the Post, “I predict secularists are going to be continually frustrated over the next 13 months as religion continues to be a part of the national political debate. America is filled with religious people, and to religious people, religion matters.” Here again, I believe Jeffress is both right and wrong. Religion does matter to religious people. But so does religious liberty. So does respectful pluralism. It may well be that people of…

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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…ey could deliver on designated social battles. Religion had also become a crucial wedge issue in partisan politics. George Romney, who had never faced serious scrutiny over his Mormonism, was so incensed when Ted Kennedy attacked Mitt’s faith during their 1992 senate battle that he couldn’t hold back an outburst during a press conference. But Mormonism truly took center stage during Mitt’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. When evangelical candidate Mike H…

Unimpeachable Office Politics

By Gretchen Koch

… The following is concerned only with office politics. It is certainly not a commentary on the impeachment process one might see all over the news. Not even a little. Nope. – eds…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…that it be done the right way, and get to work. Of course many liberals already do. And there lies the good news. The United States has a rich heritage of liberal (and even radical) political views being promoted by religious people and congregations. Millions of Americans seek sanctity in their lives, humble themselves before a higher power (however they understand it), and realize that liberal policies will foster a safer, more orderly life for…

We Shouldn’t Be Surprised Francis Met with Kim Davis

By Kara Loewentheil

…his politics. But in fact it’s a strange and artificial aspect of American politics—not the Pope’s politics—that understands concern for the disenfranchised and the marginalized to be incompatible with a deeply conservative view of religion’s place in the secular world and a commitment to a paramount religious authority. In America, conservatives want broad religious exemptions, tax breaks and policies that clearly benefit the wealthy, and border…

A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…d of children. Responding to this perceived crisis, QAnon members were instrumental in the insurrection attempt of January 6th. Which brings us to the present day. Trump himself declared at a 2024 rally in Waco, TX: “Either we surrender to the demonic forces, abolishing and demolishing (and happily doing so) our country, or we defeat them in a landslide on November 5th, 2024.” To resist these “demonic forces,” two conservative Christian pastors, L…

Biblical Inerrancy’s Long History as an Evangelical Activist for White Patriarchy

By Stephen Young

…ce to biblical truthfulness, and portray complementarian competitors as corruptors of true biblical authority or too-literal in their inerrancy. Complementarians then delegitimize evangelical egalitarian participation in the game itself by denying them inerrantist legitimacy. In other words, everyone involved plays the same biblical authority game. But the game isn’t “really” just about debates over biblical interpretation. It’s about contesting w…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…ll be at an all-time high. We see this in Israel and in the United States (Russia too, for that matter). In my lists of saved news stories, for instance, articles about the decline of religiosity exist side by side with articles about how a reactionary Supreme Court has elevated “religious freedom” above all other freedoms and rights, about how the Right is turning religion into identity. This paradox exists around the world, representing a turnin…