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Hagee’s New Film Uses Jews and Science to Prove Christian, Pro-US God

By Michael Schulson

…as a straightforward, triumphant story of divine care, but Hagee does his best. Not all Jews will appreciate being conscripted into an evangelical drama, even in the role of the hero. I’ve made this point before, but it’s worth repeating: philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism can look awfully similar. Both treat Jews as potent historical symbols, while neither seems to pay much attention to how Jews themselves interpret their own history. And both are…

American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…open to this criminal history? Is it even conceivable?? Let’s have a quick look at the main elements of the old religion: 1. The United States enjoys a unique (some would say, “a unique and God-given“) place in world history in that it was birthed from a bourgeois but still far-reaching revolutionary culture; 2. Our constitutional system, despite its creakiness and rigidity, still makes room for self-correcting reforms when existing social arrange…

Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…otten there and what it meant. The entire exchange provides an interesting look into how media shape conceptions of religion and religious groups, and especially the relationship between algorithmic targeting and identity. Here on RD, several people have written about AI and religion, from the possibility of an internet-connected human superorganism to the way ChatGPT chooses which religious figures deserve respect. In addition to thinking about h…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coffee took off is because religious Muslims preferred the beverage for…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…areness of our differences rose to the surface he “tried to hold on to the best lesson I ever learned in anti-racism circles: namely, my white liberal guilt does not serve anyone’s interests. … In my tradition, Christianity, one of the central theological claims is that God extends love and mercy graciously—i.e., from a space of vulnerability, from a space where being wounded and hurt and misunderstood is always a risk. As we worked—and worked har…

Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?

By Andrew L. Seidel

When I look at this broken, packed, partisan Supreme Court, I don’t see a guardian—I see a threat to our basic human rights. I see an institution packed with ideologues eager to throw out decades of settled law with cursory shadow docket opinions. A quick head count shows six members willing to check any box on the conservative Christian wishlist. Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts (who agrees fully on ideology, but not metho…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…irked that Gingrich didn’t sign Vander Plaats’ marriage pledge (which may look like he’s trying to play both sides — help fund Vander Plaats but then look less extreme to more moderate voters by declining to sign his pledge). But then the open letter goes on, “he failed to live his live in accordance with the values we hold so dear.” I’m sorry, that’s just not the language an evangelical marriage crusader would use. They would use terms like “san…

Note to CPAC Conservatives: “City [Up]on a Hill” Wasn’t About American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…t Charity—was about his shipmates’ charitable obligations to each other. A look at some other, less oft-quoted lines, may shed some light on what this founding (god)father intended by his powerful picture that still resonates after 400 years. According to Winthrop, the Puritans had Covenanted together before God to take care of each other (the word commonwealth, really does include the notion that what we own belongs both to us and to our communit…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…, have Islam in common, speaking very broadly. But only a very, very small number of those have engaged in acts of murderous violence. We could on this basis instead look for what, other than Islam, explains such instances of murderous violence, as these acts are not exclusive to Islam (in the 1990s, for example, the Bosnian genocide and the brutal Russian assault on Chechnya.) Instead, we stuck to the monocausal argument, trying to determine what…

The Evangelical Pluralism Problem and its Media Enablers

By Chrissy Stroop

…found among right-wing Christians, given that the latter have much greater numbers and far more power. Yet, unless we count the evangelicals who’ve been candid enough to simply dismiss pluralism as “heresy,” I cannot think of another case in which an evangelical has so openly and honestly stated that evangelicals don’t deal well with pluralism. For that reason, I asked Fea if he would be so kind as to further unpack and clarify his observation, an…