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What’s Behind Trump’s “Impossibly Stupid” Roll Back of Contraception Mandate

By Daniel Schultz

…ave to come up with some half-baked “compromise” after the president gets frustrated and abruptly changes course, revealing in the process he never really gave a damn about their “moral objections”? Whatever the short-term benefits, in the long run, this will more than likely turn out to be a spectacular failure, enraging liberal opponents and frustrating conservative supporters. But that’s the price you pay when you set out to please your base wi…

Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

…ther outdated or no longer useful content. It is notable that almost every news outlet, from USA Today, to Fox News, to the New York Times, refers to the cost of the God Bless the USA Bible as $60 as if the left digit bias employed by used car salesmen and grocery stores is too embarrassing for journalists to acknowledge. But I say it’s important to refer to that actual low, low price of $59.99. Between June 2020 and now, Trump has gone from seemi…

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

By Sarah Posner

…gay mayor of Houston,” tweeted former Rep. Allen West. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a Houston native, chimed in with a statement: “For far too long, the federal government has led an assault against religious liberty, and now, sadly, my hometown of Houston is joining the fight. This is wrong. It’s unbefitting of Texans, and it’s un-American.” But even cooler heads have a point: even if not evidence of a big bad government plot to oppress Christians, t…

American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

By Joshua Eaton

…izens. Finally, I’m curious: you’ve talked in interviews about your online news reading. What news sources do you regularly read? I normally look at several alternative news sources and commentaries. I follow Democracy Now! almost daily—though I don’t watch all segments every day. I also read Common Dreams, Truthout, AlterNet, TomDispatch, and Climate Progress. The commentators that I most appreciate are Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald on justice is…

Josh Duggar Arrest For Child Sexual Abuse Material is Part of a Systemic Problem in Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

…same-sex relationships to alcohol addiction or murder—makes for a toxic brew in which the abuse and silencing of women and children is simply inevitable. The evidence of that is all around us. “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,” Jesus is quoted as saying in the Gospel of Matthew. “By their fruits you will know them.” *CORRECTION: The original version of this article incorrectly took Jim Bob Duggar’s spin at face value. RD regrets the error….

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…tions about crazy guys and guns. Really, all I hope to do here is to encourage that. To say to everyone out there, “R U watching the news?” And to make the awful, but true words to that Christmas song ring ceaselessly in your heart: “Tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.”…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…chard Land has openly told the candidate, “I have good news and I have bad news:” The good news is, as you know Evangelicals are a forgiving people, who having experienced redemption and forgiveness in their own spiritual lives, are most often willing to extend it to others who ask for it. Consequently, a high percentage of Evangelical men are willing to cut you some slack over your turbulent marital history. The bad news is that Evangelical women…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…stian Zionism is an impediment toward peace in the Middle East.” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has reported that about 20 to 40 million Americans are Christian Zionists. “I would say the whole flier seems to me to be describing a stereotype of a Christian Zionist,” Brog said. “There are some Christian Zionists who are opposed to the peace process in the Middle East, but that does not define a movement of millions of Christian people.”…

Should Barbie Get Her Feet Washed at Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…en could do the foot washing rather than being “done unto according to thy word” (Luke 1:38). Let’s not go there. The perplexing part is why it took Cardinal Sarah so long to break the news. After all, Pope Francis apprised him of his decision in a letter dated December 2014. Roman wheels move slowly, but the Pope was quite clear in his missive that this was an easy change that could be accomplished with the mere substitution of “People of God” fo…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…on the phenomenon at the time, so in many ways I feel as if I’m watching reruns of old news reels. Still, can this be the beginning of another wave of racist violence targeting the spiritual homes of African-American Christians? On June 30, a seventh church fire, at 100-year-old Mt. Zion AME Church in Greeleyville, S.C., was a devastating repeat of history. In 1995, two members of the Ku Klux Klan burnt Mt. Zion to the ground almost exactly 20 yea…