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Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…re innocent and trusting.” As absurd as it is to say this about a beloved cartoon character, I heard Trump’s lying lechery faintly echo in those words. I heard the self-justification Trump made following the revelation that he had bragged about sexual assault in a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording. Sally’s fault is not so much in what she believes as who she believes: Linus. She falls for his charms, and waits up with him in the pumpkin patch desp…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…damentalist side of evangelical Christianity,” as one alumnus puts it. The arts are often at the very center of the stories they tell. My second field site is the Bob Jones University School of Fine Arts. This dynamic art school, founded in 1947, is housed at the self-described “fundamentalist” Christian university in Greenville, South Carolina. It has the largest faculty of any of the university’s schools, and it is famed for its world-class Shak…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…for failing to comply with the individual mandate in the ACA. These HCSMs are hardly models of religious tolerance. The largest one, Samaritan Ministries, requires a confession of Christian faith and church attendance; in addition, pregnancies of single mothers and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases aren’t covered. While Pally portrays these arrangements as a shining example of how church-based altruism can substitute for government reg…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…ainable one. The popularity of the march is just a telltale sign that some are far more concerned about the form and fashion of justice, instead of actually doing justice. We have got to get out there, and we have to work. Black women groups, like SisterReach, have been on the frontline of this movement since it began. We see our white counterparts get it eventually, but it always comes late, and it’s always at our expense. Black women showed up i…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…tion has proven anything, it is that political activism is not limited to particular age ranges or media forms. One of my friends predicted that Obama would win the election, and someone (who had, by the way, changed her middle name to “Hussein” to show support for Obama) responded, “I hope that your religion degree also grants you powers of prophecy, dear Bobby. Let’s hope.” Indeed, let’s hope. Joseph Gelfer: Dobson, Obama and 2012 [In addition…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Needs to Get a Grip on his Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…the Cartoon Network, O’Donnell seems to have issues with Mormonism—and a particular obsession with Joseph Smith—that run a bit beyond the norm. On the McLaughlin Group in December 2007, O’Donnell went after Mitt Romney with a finger-wagging two-minute diatribe against Mormonism that left Eleanor Clift and even Pat Buchanan gasping for air. Beginning his rant by joking “I’m not a Mormon, but I do play one on t.v.”—O’Donnell played polygamist Bil…

Will Justice Gorsuch Prioritize “Religious Freedom” Over Civil Rights?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ngement on the owners’ free religious exercise. Similarly, Judge Gorsuch heard Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell before it reached the Supreme Court, and determined that the ACA regulation that required religious nonprofits to provide contraceptive coverage to employees through a third party was also an unacceptable burden on the nonprofit’s freedom of religion. “What judge Gorsuch’s opinions in these contraceptive coverage cases signal is tha…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…it’s a sense of humor, except of course for him. His regime just issued an arrest warrant for popular Egyptian satirist Dr. Bassem Yousef, who’s the Jon Stewart of Egypt. He and conservative, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist look like they’re related, or possibly were cloned at the same facility, and between Morsi’s administrative incompetence and Norquist’s single-minded anti-tax jihad, this is not a promising beginning. Right now, Egypt is impl…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…old ways of resistance. I am not suggesting that most in the Sanders camp are aware of the Great Uprising of 1877 (a railway strike that rapidly morphed into a general strike) or the Great Upheaval of the 1880s (the bold and often violent campaign for an eight hour work day). I doubt that many even know who Sidney Hillman was, let alone Walter Rauschenbusch. They may think that Mother Jones is just a weird name for a magazine. Whether the Sanders…

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

By Myev Rees

…dly man” a young woman must conform to some exacting standards. These standards are rooted in constructions of innate male brutishness and feminine virtue. It seems that in the Duggar construction, Godly men are required to be protectors and providers; in order to do this they must conquer themselves. In a truly Victorian model, men, unchecked by the gospel, are simmering volcanoes of testosterone. In order to be considered a potential suitor, a y…