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A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…dividualism: today he is a seriously rich man, having worked for a leading Washington lobbying firm in the years since leaving elected office. In Armey’s own words, he made “a darned handsome pile of dough” from using his influence for the benefit of assorted industries and foreign governments. Armey’s racial raison d’etre in creating and promoting Freedomworks is to avoid the disgrace of white men going too gently into that goodnight. Armey is a…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…hetic to Germany post-World War I. The radio priest, Charles Coughlin, broadcast these views to millions. He was kind of the Rush Limbaugh of his day. Nazi influence in the US culminated with a huge march and rally in New York City in 1939. Thousands gathered in Madison Square Garden to listen to blatantly fascist speeches under the banners of George Washington adorned with swastikas. In 1940, FDR gave a fresh directive to hunt down Nazis. The FBI…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…te strain,” conservatives had an entirely different take. In Tony Perkins’ Washington Update, Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, joked that Hamilton “appears to be as moderate as Obama himself (which is to say, not at all).” Perkins claimed that the Indiana judge “ruled against abortion waiting periods, permitting chaplains to offer Christian prayer at the Indiana state house, and stiffer regulations for sex offenders. Hamilton’s re…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…have proliferated, along with the growth in Catholic market share. As the Washington Post reports, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ ERDs (Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services) prohibit “sterilization including vasectomies, postpartum tubal ligations and contraception, as well as abortion.” Anyone who can get pregnant is at serious risk in a Catholic system, where even the “direct abortion” of an ectopic or oth…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…of American Power which provided disturbing insight into “The Family,” the Washington DC “ministry” on Capitol Hill’s C Street, which has been involved in a disturbing amount of conservative political success for the past several decades. “If you write about religious people, even your friends may start making certain assumptions about the state of your soul… they’ll imagine that you’re either a scholar or seeker.” What the anthologizer makes clea…

Billy Graham Regrets Political Involvement, Again

By Randall Balmer

…a closed-door gathering of 150 Protestant clergy at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on November 7—the purpose of which, once again, was to sound the alarm about the dangers of a Roman Catholic in the White House. After Nixon finally won the presidency in 1968, Graham conducted several religious services in the White House over the course of Nixon’s first term, a task he shared with other clergy, including Norman Vincent Peale of Marble Collegiat…

On Maryland Marriage Equality, It’s Raven vs. Raven [UDPATED]

By Sarah Posner

…vote on a ballot question (similar measures are on the ballot in Maine and Washington). The Maryland legislature passed a marriage equality law last spring, and opponents petitioned for the ballot question on which voters will decide. The Maryland Marriage Alliance, which is against marriage equality, is the first group out with a television ad, and it features Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, an apparent effort to counteract Ravens linebacker B…

Cruz Backs Bishops on Religious Liberty Claims

By Patricia Miller

…atore Cordileone, who is under fire for imposing a strict “morality clause” on teachers in San Francisco’s Catholic schools. But in an indication of how the religious liberty issue crosses the political lines of the Francis papacy, the letter was also signed by two noted moderates: DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl, whose DC offices would fall under the law, and Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, who is considered Francis’ closest US ally. Of course, with…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…Heritage USA. The Bakkers signature television show, the PTL Club, was broadcast live, five days a week, with little scripting. Tammy once did an episode on a merry-go-round. One cast member threw up in the dog costume he was wearing as they spun round and round, all on live television. At the time it all seemed fresh and, for many, exciting. The sex and financial shenanigans were only interesting because of the size of PTL’s cultural footprint. D…

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

…big tent approach to coverage of American ir/a/religion. But do the Gallup numbers point to new ways we might be thinking about business as usual? Two findings are striking. First: Gallup reported that although Americans felt religion’s influence was declining, many—75 percent—agreed that more religion would be positive for the country. Not surprisingly, churchgoers were most gung-ho about religion’s beneficial impact. But “over half of those who…