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DeMint Stymies Obama’s Religious Diplomacy Nominee

By Sarah Posner

…nce, her close ties to the Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest that President Obama cares little about supporting religious freedom around the world. As Mark Silk put it succinctly, “This is the Religion Ambassador?” The Washington Post is carefully tiptoeing around the question of Rev. Cook’s appointment, quoting the first Ambassador-at-Large, Thomas Farr, who called Cook an outstanding pastor, but also lame…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

These days, everybody’s in the business of panicking over the potential role of the Muslim Brotherhood. But rather than discuss where the Brotherhood has been in the past, I suggest looking to the future. Events on the ground are changing every few hours, so this is an exercise in informed speculation. Here are five reasons why the Muslim Brotherhood will find it very hard to decisively determine Egypt’s relationship with Israel. These five reaso…

Eddie Long in Hot Water Again

By Anthea Butler

…made a video, imploring Taylor to return the funds. Scandals have become business as usual with Bishop Long and New Birth church. These stories will continue in part because of the recent fail of Senator Grassley’s investigation of the prosperity purveyors. Grassley turned a serious investigation of fiscal malfeasance that could have suggested real changes in laws into a pat on the back for prosperity preachers. The Grassley investigation has be…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…t Tahrir Square, I saw a sign instructing Americans to stay out of Egypt’s business – while I heard pro-government supporters (peacefully queuing along with everyone else to get into Tahrir) claiming that foreign agents were in the middle of all this. Not that this translated into any sort of unsafe environment for foreigners in Tahrir itself. Tahrir, despite being the scene of a protest bereft of state authority, the magnitude of which the Arab w…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…—and elite support from “powerful international players in the Vatican, US business, and politic[s]” who encouraged Catholic, Mormon and evangelical leaders into partnership—UN conferences began to be transformed, from the normally subdued forum for conversation among NGOs to stages for right-wing theater where protesting monks would seat themselves in the formation of a cross, Mormon youth activists seized control of a youth caucus to deliver a r…

Jim DeMint says Lame-Duck Session Before Christmas is “Sacrilegious”

By Daniel Schultz

…he final days of the session, blaming Republicans for stalling legislative business throughout the year. “As a Christian, no one has to remind me of the importance of Christmas for all of the Christian faith, all their families across America,” he said. “I don’t need to hear the sanctimonious lectures of Sens. Kyl and DeMint to remind me of what Christmas means.” Catch that? Harry Reid, the Mormon Democrat from Nevada, tells Kyl and DeMint to cram…

Identifying With God: Jay-Z’s Power to Profit

By Ebony Utley

…of Russell Simmons but doing it bigger and deffer, Jay-Z is the consummate businessman. In fact, he’s a business, man. Jay-Z credits his success to his hustler mentality, but he doesn’t stop there… His Blueprint albums reference his power of creation—the divine ability to manifest something out of nothing as God did when he spoke the world into existence. He describes himself as hip hop’s savior on his return-from-retirement album Kingdom Come, wh…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…n of Labor, and even the IWW attracted significant religious allies. Large numbers of clergy and religiously-based lay activists rallied behind the industrial union surge of the 1930s. Yale Divinity School’s Liston Pope became a national labor advocate during the ’30s and ’40s. The Brothers Niebuhr and the Brothers Reuther spoke pretty much the same language—and I don’t mean German. During the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights heroes like King and Hes…

Scott Walker’s Faith-Based Anti-Government Rhetoric

By Lauri Lebo

…oing to take you home both here at home and ultimately far beyond.” Fourteen months later, at his inaugural prayer breakfast, Walker said, “The Great Creator, no matter who you worship, is the one from which our freedoms are derived, not the government.” In a lunch talk to the Christian Business Men’s Committee in 2009, he spoke of his learning the meaning of the hymn Trust and Obey. While he says his obedience doesn’t relate necessarily to politi…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…e state of Utah. Government leaders, politicians, Protestant churches, and business leaders petitioned Congress that Smoot was unfit to serve because of his affiliation with Mormonism and its outlaw practice of polygamy. What followed was a four-year show political show trial involving more than 100 witnesses that put every dimension of Mormon life under national scrutiny. But there are some important differences between the Smoot trials and the K…