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LifeSite Complains that Local Boy Scout Chapter is Not Homophobic Enough

By Katie Toth

…York, spokesman for the Northern Star Council, which has 75,000 Scouts in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. “Our commitment has been to reach out to all young people and have a positive influence.” York said that the Twin Cities-based Scout council, one of the nation’s largest, will continue to follow a 12-year-old “inclusive leadership selection” practice. “Every council is reflective of their community,” he said. Which makes sense. Large organiz…

Papal Consultant: Cuomo Should Be Denied Communion

By Randall Balmer

…n Detroit, stated in no uncertain terms that Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, should be shown no mercy. His offense? Seems that the governor has been shacking up—not with underage boys, mind you, but with his longtime partner, Sandra Lee. And as if that weren’t bad enough, Cuomo also supports same-sex marriage and believes that abortion is a private matter that shouldn’t be regulated by the state. Cuomo, according to Peters, should not rece…

The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…iscussion of religion and politics found in the pages of The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media of comparable reach and influence. This earlier history is easy to ignore since the problematic features of evangelical Protestantism were much less consequential until the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Two portentous, virtually simultaneous developments changed that. First, evangelical Protestantism wa…

Palin Tries to Join the Mishpachah

By Sarah Posner

News reports yesterday were chattering about Sarah Palin touring New York wearing a Star of David around her neck. Palin wore the same one when she toured Israel in March. Here’s an Associated Press video of Palin discussing the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty yesterday, while wearing the Star of David in question: While Palin’s display of this particular piece of her jewelry collection in places where she would expect to encounter a lot of Je…

Trump Pulls a Huckabee on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…page from Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign. In a December 2007, New York Times profile, Huckabee was quoted responding to reporter Zev Chafets’ question about whether he thought Mormonism was a religion or a cult by saying he thought it was a religion. But, he added, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” The same day his remarks were published on the Times website, Huckabee apologized, saying the comment was tak…

#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”

By Shaina Hammerman

…nst what he felt was an “intolerable picture” painted by an article in The New York Times. The Times piece featured a string of direct quotations from European Muslim women, whose experiences of discrimination may sound familiar to American readers who follow the conversation about race in America: the women feel “insulted,” “humiliated,” “scandalized.” They feel the need to “politely justify” themselves. One feels “like a criminal.” One Parisian…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ort, six-minute film at the new National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, but for an analogous controversy seventeen years prior about a film on Christianity’s relationship to antisemitism at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. At present, 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels has refused to consider any edits that would add the context and definition suggested by the museum’s Interfaith Advisory Group. He told…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…DS Church’s aggressive visual rebranding “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign—big in New York City, I understand—is an effort in part to counter the riveting images of fundamentalist LDS people that have been in the news these past few years. It’s so interesting because first of all, I am very clear with mainstream interviews that fundamentalist LDS is not the same thing as LDS. It shocks me how prevalent the conflation of polygamous fundamentalist Mormons…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…o lack some key details; Savannah Jacobson of Slate.com has criticized the New York Times for amplifying the voices and overstating the charitable efforts of anti-choice activists; and RD’s Mary E. Hunt has called out the Catholic bishops who, after a post-Dobbs victory lap, released a statement touting their work to support pregnant people. My own bullshit detector has picked up a few trends among these “compassionate” anti-abortion types, starti…

Occupy in Exile: Sacred Space is Everywhere

By Donna Schaper

…ooks in the Occupy library. Some of those books are being retrieved at the New York Police Department “lost and found.” Sacred space is not one place; and you can grind a book to dust but not destroy it. Judson Memorial Church opened our church’s assembly room for five nights the first week and still have an astonishing collection of notebooks, backpacks, sleeping bags and down comforters, sweaters, sweatshirts, and mittens hanging out in our hall…