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Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…na in 2015, a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, at three different spas in the Atlanta-area in 2021, and at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022; as well as dozens of other instances of vigilante violence against religious minorities. And, of course, it was on full display during the 2021 Capitol insurrection two years ago. Given the dynamics present in the United States today (just look at last week’s CPAC), we can expect Christian nationalis…

Public Religion in a Post-Christian Age, Graduation Edition

By David Gushee

…children graduated from a large, quite diverse public high school here in Atlanta. Both went to baccalaureate services and graduation exercises. At none of these four events was any kind of religious expression attempted, not even at the baccalaureate services held at local churches. I was also struck by the lack of any kind of patriotic or ethical exhortation. The graduation events were primarily memorable for their extraordinary speed. Lacking…

GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…reel of his other speeches. Weigel also notes Cain’s radio show on WSB in Atlanta where he rails against President Obama, “socialism,” and the Democrats abuse of individual rights while mixing in some “Dale Carnegie-esque leadership talk.” When it comes to his credentials as a Christian conservative, well, Cain is working on those. Sarah has already pointed out religious right connections and he’s continued to step those up. Last month he wrote a…

Rev. Bernice King Named New President of SCLC. Really?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ght. She is an underling of the financially problematic and morally skewed Atlanta megachurch pastor, Bishop Eddie Long, a dubious member of the Grassley six. (Senator Chuck Grassley’s investigation involves how Bishop Long used money from a “charity” to purchase a $300,000 automobile.) And she has proven herself to be an unbridled homophobe, even to the extent of publicly disagreeing and disassociating herself from her late mother’s support for L…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…ickets ranging between $250 and $500. It is arguably the dominant brand of today’s Republican Party. For good reason, a growing number of expert observers have begun sounding the alarm. I suggest it’s time we hit the panic button. The rally featured plenty of repugnant elements—from the relentless attacks on transgender youth consistent with fascist scapegoating, to the steady drumbeat of election fraud claims, to accusations that Dr. Fauci engine…

“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

…action. What is most bothersome to me about the Big Con being perpetrated today is the absolutely supine and credulous “reporting” of the whole affair in the corporate media. Only a tiny number of outlier critics—like Simon Johnson—are given any air time at all. Everybody else, from NPR to Fox News, goes right along with the cute “stress test” metaphor, forgetting that the so-called patient being “tested” is actually an 800-pound gorilla that nee…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…ep relevance for the life of faith.” While Benedict has had to deal with a number of volatile political and theological issues in recent years, it may have been the startling changes in communications technology that made the whole thing ultimately untenable. Since believers see the office of the Pope as God’s mouthpiece on Earth—God’s Twitter handle if you will—the new communications technologies have become increasingly worrisome, clogging the p…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…n euros for the card to be activated for three days and to get three paper tickets. Up to the manuscript room, where I handed the ID card and one ticket to the clerk. She gave me a key to a locker, where I had to leave all my belongings except one pencil (not a pen, with which I could deface a manuscript) and a notebook. Reentering the reading room, I had to display my pencil and notebook to the clerk to get back my ID card and the ultimate prize:…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…he subpoenas. Scott pointed to a Parker tweet time-stamped around midnight today, reading, “If the 5 pastors used pulpits for politics, their sermons are fair game. Were instructions given on filling out anti-HERO petition?-A,” suggesting that the city was attempting to discover whether the petition organizers knew some of the collected signatures may have been invalid. A spokesperson for the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request…