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Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…s an enthusiastic supporter of the State of Israel, but it is clear that he, too, thought of modern Israel in biblical terms. Both in private conversation and in his diary, Eisenhower referred to Israelis as ‘‘Israelites,’’ and it seems that he imagined that these modern Israelites were deeply religious. When an aide explained to the president that the Israeli leadership was assertively secular, he was astonished. This ‘‘biblical’’ reading of mode…

Web 8.0: The Return of the Human

By Beatrice Marovich

…sees us as a unique species—not like any other animal. He has, for example, reservations about animal rights. Too much empathy for other creatures, he alleges, can lead to “empathy inflation.” If we want to protect the rights of non-humans, we might as well torture ourselves over whether or not we have the right to kill the harmful bacteria that’s crawling around on (and in) us. The borders of the human might be “variegated and fuzzy,” Lanier say…

Pawlenty Stars in American Civil Religion: The Movie

By Michael J. Altman

…American intervention in WWI. While the term itself fell out of political usage, the myth expanded as America spread its reach to the moon, to Vietnam, and to the Middle East. If we are exceptional and if we work the hardest, than surely we deserve to grow. It’s not imperialism, it’s a blessing for our hard work. This is the myth Pawlenty draws on when he brings up the examples of Valley Forge, the moon landing, and the settlement of the west. Th…

Insurance Coverage for Abortion in Health Care Reform Threatened

By Carlton Veazey

…e coverage for abortion is already restricted to the narrow cases of incest, rape, or life endangerment: women who receive Medicaid, federal workers, the military, the American Indian health service, women in federal prisons, and even Peace Corps volunteers.) This effort may be more devastating to women’s reproductive health care than the hundreds of individual state laws now on the books—or it may be a pivotal moment of change in the bitter battl…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…only Marine is proposing radical solutions,” Le Pen supporter Kelvin Hopper, 25, told the Associated Press for an April 7 report. … Both Macron and Le Pen catered to anti-gay Catholics after the resurfacing of the anti-gay marriage French coalition La Manif Pour Tous (Demonstration For All) in October 2016, with 24,000 demonstrators demanding that candidates pledge to repeal the marriage law. Le Pen made the pledge, later promising civil unions. M…

What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…Rather, it’s caught fire because he’s articulating what groups like DignityUSA, Catholics for Choice, Women-Church Convergence, and others have been saying for decades; namely, that the heart of Catholicism is divine love and the soul of Catholicism is divine justice. If the church is “the holy, faithful people of God,” then it’s the many voices and not only the papal voice that speak truths, in the plural. Three Things Leave Me Warm… The intervi…

Romney Stands Up to Bryan Fischer at Values Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…share in common Protestant views of the divinity and significance of Jesus, we aren’t lying. And what Robertson says matters. Then, there was an inspired blog post in which Christian author Nish Weiseth reflects on the hurt dished out to Mormon girls at her high school and her own reservations about LDS people. “I’m starting to wonder what I’ve been so afraid of,” Weiseth writes. The post has gone viral among Mormon readers. It certainly touched…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…ca is a patchwork of dictatorships and Christian theocracies. On November 9, 2001, Christian fundamentalists from the Rocky Mountain Independent Territories hijack four jet planes and fly them into buildings in Baghdad and Riyadh. In retaliation, the Arabs capture Denver and shoot up the surrounding countryside, but after failing to locate the terrorist mastermind, they decide to open a second front in the now global War on Terror. The obvious tar…

Evangelicals Struggle With the Role of Churches in Society

By Omri Elisha

…onetheless helped me greatly to comprehend the ways that evangelicals think, feel, and act in their efforts to be more Christ-like. I regret that I couldn’t incorporate all of their voices, but I also didn’t want to overpopulate a book that is meant to provide more in the way of depth than breadth. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? A common misconception among non-evangelicals is that evangelical Christians are all ruth…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…the street to the sparkling new LDS Church-owned City Creek Mall, a 23-acre, 700,000-square foot shopping center, opened in March. The Temple Square-end of the City Creek Mall features luxury high-rise condominiums and upscale shops like Tiffany’sand Nordstrom’s. Many LDS people view the City Creek Mall as an emblem of savvy financial stewardship, a sure-to-be-profitable $1.5 billion investment designed to revitalize Salt Lake City’s downtown—yet…