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Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

By Ira Chernus

…t, less dependent on God.” Thus spake Jim DeMint, the ultra-conservative Republican senator from South Carolina, in a recent radio interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. No, I don’t listen to Tony Perkins. I found the quote thanks to Think Progress blogger Scott Keyes, who offered what he calls this “outlandish statement” as an example of conservatives’ tendency “to dress their political ideology in religious language.” Mayb…

Theocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing influence of the Reconstructionist movement, and how its vision became central to the contemporary religious right’s political agenda. Mind you, I’m not minimizing the crazy idea that homosexuality should be punished by death — and the point should not be lost that these Christian Reconstructionist views have contributed to the anti-gay movement — but Christian Reconstructionism is much broader, advocating a very specific ordering of family, c…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…ience. In the Dark Ages, contrary to what most people think, science was central to the lives of monks, kings, emperors, and even popes. It was the mark of true nobility and the highest form of worship of God. Is there anything you had to leave out? A marvelous side effect of writing a book like this one that is outside my comfort zone of knowledge was that I had to ask for help. I found it in Barcelona, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Monistrol-su…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…almost like denying the faith.” Let’s Get Visceral Despite an overwhelming Republican victory, the 2010 elections were not an unequivocal victory for the “pro-Israel” voices in the GOP or in the United States. Traditional Republicans will be as strident as ever about supporting “our only democratic ally in the Middle East,” but the Tea Party candidates’ position on Israel remains an open question as many libertarians favor isolationist policies. S…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…in his life and it had a deep impact on him.) And yet, the image offers a profound meditation on the power of death, that “dark insolent, and senselessly eternal power.” The picture becomes, like so many before and after, a point of great healing, compassion, and understanding about this central, paradoxical thing that Christians hold dear: Incarnation. Now, in the time of Advent, a time of reflection on the in-flesh-ment of the divine in a human…

Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…gh sorrowful stories that my denominational professional organization, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, endorsed access to birth control in 1929 and cooperation with Planned Parenthood in 1947. As the decades passed, we, and clergy from other religious groups, demanded access to reproductive health care, including abortion. We weren’t dismissive of the woman’s pregnancy. Rather, we affirmed that the moral high ground is in a woman’s deci…

2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…ling conferences, meeting what they call “one of [their] primary goals: to promote the restoration of the biblical family.” They see the “home schooling community as central to this effort [and] seek to encourage home schooling parents to faithfully disciple their children.” In response to the 50th anniversary of the release of “the Pill,” they “celebrated the blessing and preciousness of life amidst a culture of death, by hosting a Baby Conferenc…

Promoting Patriarchy and Fighting Pantheism, plus Adventures to the Amazon and to Space (!)

By Julie Ingersoll

…triarchy. If you are a reader of my work here at RD you will recognize the coded language in the references to providential history, biblical worldviews, presuppositionalism, and biblical law. The “glory of motherhood” and the “blessing of children,” includes the ideas that these are to be the only life choices open to women and that limiting the number of children in any way (including contraception) is a violation of God’s plan and promotion of…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…gender.” A Refuge for the Powerful It could be even more educational if a central tenet of American historical writing about the Constitution—that it was made once, and then completely remade through the affirmative and far-reaching exercise of federal power to remake citizenship undertaken during the Civil War and Reconstruction—could have been part of the discussion. Only a serious grappling with the original passages would make that possible….

Loughner Admired Conspiracy-Minded Zeitgeist Film

By Sarah Posner

…sustainability. For example, TZM is not about 9/11, Comparative Religion, Central Banking, Financial Reform or the like. In the world today, many are active in these areas and work to resolve them on a per case basis. TZM is not interested in this – its function is to find the ‘source’ of problematic social phenomena and act to resolve it at its core. This is why a completely new social system is expressed in the Movement’s materials. The site at…