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Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…she ultimately shepherded the drafting of the Council’s recommendations, particularly those on reforming aspects of the Office that critics believed violated the Establishment Clause. That’s not to say that he only picked liberals — in fact, Obama did choose many advisors who are most definitely conservative (such as Joel Hunter, who is also on Newsweek’s list) and center-right (such as Jim Wallis, who I’d imagine would be unhappy to be placed on…

From Licking Floors to Praying for an Inept Government, Churches React to C-19

By Daniel Schultz

…ct a president from political attacks. (On a separate note, floors aren’t particularly known to be COVID-19 transmission agents. They might get plenty of other nasty bugs that way, though.) Like the Trump administration’s bumbling efforts, these local responses to the current situation relate back to conceptions of truth on some level. On the one hand, while there’s a recognition of the coronavirus’ power, there’s a sense that it’s more important…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ekend. Henderson-Espinoza was clear about the roots of this violence, and particularly the silence—from the Trump Administration and white clergy members—that continues to embolden neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and proud racists to terrorize communities, all with no notable intervention from state or city police and members of the National Guard, who were on-site for the entirety of this weekend’s planned and unplanned actions. A brief note: I sp…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…a better future unless we, the civilized world, are willing to fight the barbarians … The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. … Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism… May God Bless Israel.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0 The widespread assumption that Netanyahu’s religious rhetoric is a cynical appeal to his right-wing base isn’t incorrect, but it isn’t the only…

The Faith Outreach Canard

By Sarah Posner

…Assigning the lack of religious outreach any primary, causal role in this particular election is simply not a credible argument, given the economic context, comparable losses among other important demographic groups, and the particular makeup of the 2010 electorate. At the Monkey Cage, political scientist John Sides observes that GOP victories in swing districts with Democratic incumbents had other causes: GOP gains had much more to do a simpler f…

55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

By Joanna Brooks

…ir ancient textual roots not a condemnation of homosexuality? Yes, Mormons are. Are we still holding to Levitical prohibitions of homosexuality, which also declare the eating of shellfish an abomination? Yes, Mormons are. Even those who love a good shrimp cocktail. There are more nuanced aspects of Mormon theology which pertain to the importance of marriage as a salvific rite and have been marshaled in opposition to the legalization of same-sex ma…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…itarism in Central America, structural poverty, and the prevention of nuclear war, while remaining moderate on the question of whether Catholics needed to aggressively assert opposition to abortion in public policy. But even during the 1980s the church was already splitting into a “Pence wing” and a “Kaine wing.” That’s why it’s a misinterpretation to assert, as Emma Green did in The Atlantic, that divisions within Catholicism are driven by our cu…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…logs, and newsletters. Unfortunately, the portrait they paint tends to rehearse various mischaracterizations, including a confusion of witchcraft with Satanism, accusations of ritual sacrifice, evangelical exaggeration of the size and growth of witchcraft, and a misreading of fantasy, fairy tale, and horror depictions of witches as reflecting real-world practice. Although these disturbing tendencies won’t be disappearing soon, there are some promi…

8: The Mormon Proposition Gets It Right

By Joanna Brooks

…spokespeople have dismissed the film as blatantly false. But what I’m hearing from a number of Mormons deeply familiar with the Proposition 8 campaign is that the film gets it mostly right. [See also Holly Welker’s review here. – Eds] Some take exception to editing choices that sequence events out of context for dramatic effect; others wish that the filmmakers had not been so cartoonish in their depictions of anti-gay-marriage standpoints, usin…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…It opened last week in New York to grave reviews and a few awards. If you are near by I hope you check it out: “Mooz-lum”, the movie. It is not the story of every African-American Muslim but it is a story about African-American Islam, in one of its many reflections. We are here. We were here before September 11, 2001. Since we survived the peculiar institution of race-based slavery in America, despite its dire conditions and consequences, we will…