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Duggar Daughters Talk Sex, Courtship, and Fear of Ungodly Men

By Myev Rees

…“affect the world for Christ.” According to the Duggars, Godly men tend to look for long hair and pretty, natural makeup. And although it is not required that a Godly woman be physically attractive—indeed low self-esteem is characterized as a failure to accept and be thankful for what God has given you—she should put effort into her appearance, but not so much that she becomes vainly preoccupied with her looks. Godly women must also strive to embo…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ries, in their strange entanglements of human and animal life, cause us to look differently on the animals we encounter on a day-to-day basis. And that everydayness is precisely where the stories of these big game hunts and lions should lead us. We may not ever experience a lion walking down the road, sheer magnificence and power, but we do traverse a wilderness of a world where we encounter other animals daily. Whether wild or domestic or somewhe…

A Test for Trump—And the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…s ideological commitments are. With a base fractured over Trump, many will look to what the elites are saying. WORLD has been conducting a monthly survey of evangelical “insiders,” who have not been picking Trump as their favorite. This month’s survey finds Marco Rubio in the lead with 37%, followed by Ted Cruz (19%), and Carly Fiorina (18%). It’s not a scientific poll, and it surveyed just 91 people, but Trump only registered 1%. Smith writes tha…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

…th (or 1st, or what have you) century. I think religion also forces you to look into the future. What happens to me? What happens next? On Tuesday night, I was a guest on a Kelly File segment about the increasing violence between Israelis and Palestinians. I went on in a theological frame of mind. You can watch me, and co-panelist Brooke Goldstein, “debate” a question that has already been answered (there was no mention, by the network, of Israeli…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…o-equal philosophical values, affords conservatives who find comfort in or look past this tension a range of argumentative resources. In brief, this collision allows for a more robust and philosophically diverse movement. A few quick illustrations should help demystify this potentially esoteric point. In 2000, lots of conservative candidates, George W. Bush in particular, employed a thoroughgoing religious rhetoric to appeal to voters who had been…

Did Billy Graham Really Tell Romney He’d ‘Help’?

By Evan Derkacz

…ong words, so why question this de facto endorsement? For one, it doesn’t look as though anyone heard Graham say it. The bulk of the meeting was closed to reporters before cameras were allowed in to take the evening’s iconic photo. Following that, as Washington Post blogger Ed O’Keefe puts it: Graham, Franklin Graham and Romney then prayed and as the meeting ended, campaign aides said that Graham told Romney: “I’ll do all I can to help you. And y…

Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…ople interpret scripture in deadly ways. Unfortunately, Offit is unable to look beyond his clumsy parceling of religion into good faith and bad faith. When it comes to religious objections to medical treatment, there are two other, more disturbing possibilities that Offit doesn’t seem equipped to even consider. The first is that there’s something legitimately frightening about the medical system for many Americans—a fear that’s absorbed into relig…

Corporation as ‘Citizen’ is the Next Anti-Black, Anti-Democratic Model that Needs to be Torn Down

By Peter Laarman

…nstitutions enroll more students from the top 1% than the bottom 60%? Just look at their boards. It’s basically a closed system. And is it even necessary to point out the racist roots and ongoing racist behavior of the American banking industry? As for CEOs in general, most of what they’re up to during this moment of reckoning is mere virtue signaling, even as they impose pay cuts on people of color doing front line work. Netflix, now wallowing in…

6 Words Not in RNC Autopsy: Christian, Religion, Abortion, Marriage, Jesus, God

By Sarah Posner

…an National Committee is out with what is being billed as an introspective look at what went wrong for the party in 2012. Maggie Haberman reports at POLITICO: The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways. Among the RNC’s proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform, addressing middle-class economic anxieties head-on, and conde…

Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?

By Robin Globus Veldman

…“That’s why we need to be educated in the Bible, so we know what signs to look for. Because you’re just wasting all that money on research when it’s, sadly, not going to help.” Such views contrasted with those I heard from people who believed that Jesus would return to Earth but did not actually think they were living in the last days. There, I almost invariably heard statements expressing ethical responsibilities vis-à-vis the environment. For…