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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

…urprised to see some unusually accurate takes on white evangelicals in the New York Times lately, so maybe we’re starting to experience a slight shift? Maybe plugging away at media criticism does ultimately have at least a little impact? Still, as I certainly don’t have to tell you, most of what passes for religion “journalism” consists of suspect takes on white Christians, and is chock-full of demonstrably false narratives that simply will not di…

‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…itten by Matt Taibbi, nicknames Tebow “Kid Jesus.” A pair of Muslims from New York spent every night of Ramadan in a different mosque in a different state on what they called a “Ramadan Roadtrip.” A group of vengeful Oklahoma City atheists, reminding Oklahomans that they live in town too, erected a “Don’t Believe in God? Join the club” billboard provoking the ire of local Christians. One local pastor referred to the billboard as poking “a finger…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…ffects of global warming than the American public at large, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted this month. The survey found that only 14 percent of Tea Party supporters said that global warming is an environmental problem that is having an effect now, while 49 percent of the rest of the public believes that it is. More than half of Tea Party supporters said that global warming would have no serious effect at any time in the futu…

With This Thanksgiving Bombshell SCOTUS Began Implementation of an Ultraconservative Agenda

By Andrew L. Seidel

…, or watching an indoor sporting event. All of those were banned under the New York orders that the churches were complaining about. Churches, however, were still allowed to meet, 10 or less, and then 25 or less depending on which zone they were in. So when you compare apples to apples, churches were actually already favored under the stay-at-home orders. They were given special privileges. But that was apparently not enough. They cried discrimina…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…rently also making their way into the Sinai, which was best reported on by New York Review of Books’ Nicholas Pelham, and those weapons in turn are being aimed at Israel—or being smuggled into Gaza, allegedly, or being smuggled over to Syria. While some see Islamist fighters’ internecine spats as good for Israel, Israel’s own strategists are probably deeply concerned. Numerous and slippery movements with constant weapons flow back and forth are in…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…to Trump’s meeting last month with more than 1,000 evangelical leaders in New York City, Wehner pointed to the “problematic” embrace of Trump by evangelical luminaries like Jerry Falwell, Jr., Franklin Graham, and James Dobson who recently vouched for Trump’s born-again status before saying he couldn’t confirm for sure Trump’s conversion. More than just an embrace, Trump’s support from this motley crew of evangelical politicos helped clear the pa…

Whose God in America?

By Marian Ronan

…decision to limit discussion, in the segment on Archbishop John Hughes of New York, to four white Catholic men, three of them priests. As if Catholic women aren’t sidelined quite enough by our own church, now we’ve got the secular media following suit. Once again, readers may disagree. After all, God in America isn’t an affirmative action program. Perhaps the white men the producers interviewed just offered the more illuminating insights. Or thei…

Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…; Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in New York City; Rev. Robert Hardies, senior pastor of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C.; and Bishop Tonyia Rawls of the Freedom Center for Social Justice in North Carolina. Forbes said the Repairers of the Breach will be working with economists and others to conduct an audit of the state of the nation’s poor people. “The nation has systematically ignored or down…

A Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes Beyond “Interfaith”

By Matthew Gindin

…friend. She thought her mom, who attended a Reform synagogue in Hightown, New York, would enjoy the service and returned with her. Her mom loved it. “I probably wouldn’t have attended the synagogue so regularly or become a member if it hadn’t been for the clear joy that it gives my mother. At the same time, it is a very rich and multi-layered experience for me.” She now attends services about twice a month as well as Torah study classes. “Often,”…

The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…Archbishop John O’Connor led a high-profile march on an abortion clinic in New York City. Previously he had expressed support for Operation Rescue, which would go on to lead a series of confrontational abortion clinic blockades in Kansas in the summer of 1991. It’s also instructive that about the time that Aitcheson was burning crosses in southern Maryland and plotting to bomb the NAACP, a Catholic anti-war and anti-abortion activist named John Ca…