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Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…state of Florida to ban gay marriage), he’s also affiliated himself with “common ground” measures that reject the scorched earth tactics of the religious right. In fact, a companion piece in Newsweek pointed out Hunter’s and Wallis’s divergence from their religious right brethren, even as they made the magazine’s top ten list of Christian right leaders. Given that Wallis and Hunter are close spiritual advisors to the president, if one does consid…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ing babies, what does this say about the state of our nation?” It seemed incomprehensible to all panelists that some women might not actually want to have 2.1 children—or any children at all. Waters points out that while national conservatives should be indeed happy that pro-natalism had, as she put it, become a “fashionable buzzword” on the Right in recent years, being picked up from Heritage to Silicon Valley tech bros, she’s not a fan of the la…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…a renewed Earth, which Muslims call “Paradise” and Jews call “The world to come.” But in the modern, post-enlightenment West, this multi-phase process has become too intellectually cumbersome, and we’ve abandoned it—especially in progressive circles. Third, that “heaven is what you want it to be.” For most of Western history, heaven has not been a realization of personal desires. The fact that in America we are picking and choosing from among the…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…nine on the Richter scale. It devastated the population. Estimates of the number of people killed range from 10,000 to 100,000. At the time the quake struck, worshipers filled the churches honoring their dead. The churches, the worshippers, and the city around them were effectively destroyed. Not long after the major quake hit, a tsunami followed that killed those who had rushed to the beaches in fear to avoid the havoc of the earthquake. The cat…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…taken from the Gospel of Matthew 5:14, and later cribbed by Ronald Reagan, comes from a letter he wrote on the ship Arbella just before coming ashore in New England. This letter was not a document touting the religious freedom and democracy the new colony would soon enjoy, but a description of the Puritans’ covenantal obligations to God and the wrath they could expect from this God if they disobeyed his strict and holy will. Moore worships the sam…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…g the conflict to continue were more willing to accept new information and compromise, in comparison to those exposed to a scenario based on the fruits of peace.” Logically, then, Israeli leaders should tell their voters that they stand to lose plenty if they don’t support compromises for peace. But here’s the rub. If Israeli leaders express, or even hint at, that obvious truth, they will give public voice to the self-image of vulnerability and vi…

The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…votees of the Grateful Dead collectively formed an intentionally itinerant community numbering in the tens of thousands, with their own customs, vernacular, art, and economy. In his explanation of the lure of the Grateful Dead to thousands of Deadheads around the country, Garcia ruminated, “maybe we’re just one of the last adventures in America.” Indeed, the promise of a great American adventure animated Deadheads to undertake an annual pilgrimage…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…to become a rabbi, Ruttenberg’s story shows the ways religious practice is complicated yet valuable for its complexity. This month she will release a third, perhaps more controversial, book entitled The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism. Like Yentl’s Revenge, The Passionate Torah is an anthology. The book’s contributor list includes “some of today’s smartest Jewish thinkers who explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…encountered several cases of vampires suffering harassment, and this may become worse as awareness of the community increases. It is better to move past these Romantic ideas and begin seeing self-identified vampires more or less as ordinary people. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? Praeger’s market is primarily university and public libraries. I have noticed many papers being written on this community; mostly by undergraduates…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…es—affirming and not—have inquired about holding screenings and hopes that number will continue to grow. He believes that seeing and hearing these stories can change people’s hearts. He says he was changed in the process of making the movie; getting to know some of the missionaries and IHOP staff as people made it harder to think of them as simply “evil fundamentalists.” And, he says, that after spending so much time with missionary Joanna Watson,…