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Christian Responses to COVID-19 Raise Old Religion v. Science Questions

By Chrissy Stroop

…ho exhibit smug superiority and a sort of fundamentalist and arguably (post-)Protestant ethos, in nearly all their interactions. While some of these “stable geniuses” style themselves progressives, others identify as libertarians or “classical liberals,” and at least the latter are more honest about what ultimately amounts to their alt-right adjacent, or even fully alt-right, views on matters of race, gender, and “identity politics.” While I now r…

‘Restart the Economy’ is a Prayer to a Conservative God Who Demands Human Sacrifice

By Stephen Young

…e speech, shouldn’t people who follow these gods at least have to answer uncomfortable questions about their sociopathic deities? Why should it be bad manners to question people who worship such gods instead of bad manners to promote those gods in the first place? You can see where this is going. At the moment an influential contingent of conservative leaders and commentators are advocating that we put a stop to measures meant to suppress the spre…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…y well educated (many with Cambridge degrees) and who represented the most high-minded and cosmopolitan vector within the Protestant Reformation, Robinson wants to make the point that, from the beginning, the American story was about ideas of justice and liberty, not simply about wealth and power. She wishes to make the further point that because of our unwarranted bias against Puritanism, the standard account of American history “smothers what mi…

Five Must-Reads on the “Nones”: A Tipping Point in American Religion and Spirituality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…. Schmidt set his original exploration of the nineteenth-century “spiritual-but-not-religious” set (Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, of course, but also lesser-studied figures such as John Wright Buckham, Sarah Farmer, and Margaret Fuller) in the context of a maturing, antebellum American democracy, arguing that the emphasis on the inward search among the Metaphysicals was closely tied to a progressive politics and praxis, including a renewed practi…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. His newest book Evolution of the Word, is a chronological reading of the New Testament. When read in historical order, Borg argues, the Bible reveals itself as having been shaped by the community that engendered it, rather than the other way around. I had a chance to speak with Borg recently about his book, and its provocative thesis. RD: Not many people take the time to read the New Testament in the order it’s laid out in the Bible. What can…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…o vilified by the anti-abortion movement and so regularly attacked by right-wing commentators that many people regarded him as completely without ethics, a “baby killer.” The fact that he was murdered in church has caused some unease among anti-abortion leaders; what if people suddenly realize that there are many Christians who are pro-choice? How could an abortion provider be a Lutheran in good standing? As a Lutheran pastor who has studied these…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…raced former pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle). Another branch of anti-feminist complementarians, Capitol Ministries, conducts a weekly Bible study in the White House. Ralph Drollinger, the founder, also teaches his doctrine in most of the state capitols and has plans to expand “throughout the world.” Interestingly, perhaps, Jeff Sessions attended Bible study with Drollinger the day before his ill-fated Romans 13 remarks, a bible study which…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…ded to put my boobs on the internet, but aside from worrying that my mother-in-law or my boss is going to find out some day, I don’t fear what anyone thinks about it. While a few women mentioned worrying about what their mothers would think, none reported receiving any criticism from their mothers or sisters. However, a couple of women mentioned that they had received very harsh condemnation from brothers and/or fathers, which of course is part of…

Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

By Sarah Posner

…n Purpose, which, according to the L.A. Times, “is using sophisticated data-mining techniques to compile a database of every unregistered born-again and evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic in the country.” United in Purpose shares the services of David Lane with the Renewal and Restoration Projects, which are modeled on one launched in Texas to help Perry with a gubernatorial reelection campaign. As I reported previously, Lane, a Chris…

Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question

By Joseph Laycock

…en among Satanic organizations. Its website is rife with comments that are openly anti-Semitic and anti-Christian—but it does not advocate murder. One essay explains that Satanism “is not about human sacrifice,” and another insists that, “Satan never murdered anyone.” An essay on the afterlife contains no mention of other galaxies but does describe hell as a “safe place.” Satanists, it claims, will be escorted to hell by protector demons and treat…