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Blessed With a Dark Turn of Mind: Gillian Welch’s Spiritual Strivings

By Paul Harvey

…rophets Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John They’re gone but not forgotten Round, round wanna go round Wanna see the rock of ages Till my body gives out Gonna read the Gospel pages Other times it’s not as clear, particularly so on more recent recordings, and especially so in The Harrow & the Harvest. Put more simply: whose soul does she want to [e]’lectrify, and who are those six white horses coming after? And what happened in nineteen hundred… and ninet…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…good move. When I got to the lobby another something told me to dig out my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on,…

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…te about a similar move with regard to public education here). There are a number of dimensions to the Florida plan but those that interest me are the plans to “privatize” the system by turning even more of it over to “faith based” prison ministries and to reshape the system as whole with a model put forth over 40 years ago by none other than RJ Rushdoony, the founder of Christian Reconstructionism. Governor Rick Scott wants to move prisoners from…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…irst trip to Israel, at the invitation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. To prepare for my trip, I’ve been reading up on what’s happening in what I grew up understanding as “the holy land,” and writing reviews of what I’ve read in light of my broader work on religion, violence, and peacebuilding. The U.S.-based academics who supported this resolution clearly intended for this statement to be understood as expressing “solidarity” wi…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…thics, and Ritual in Silver Spring, Maryland. Born on January 28, 1932, in Philadelphia, Virginia Ramey was raised in a Plymouth Brethren congregation and sent to a private, conservative Christian high school in Florida. After graduating from Bob Jones University in 1953, she taught there and married Frederick Mollenkott in 1954. They had a son, Paul, in 1958. Returning to Philadelphia, she earned an M.A. at Temple University in 1955 and a doctora…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.”[62] Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch calls the Project 2025 climate agenda a “blueprint for destroying the planet.”[63] Although it is separate from the Trump campaign’s own published “Agenda 47,”[64] Project 2025’s policy roadmap aligns with its authoritarian plans, which include seizing the endowments of top universities to fund the creation of a massive “American A…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…nalists. While textbooks such as America’s Providential History have been around for decades and tactics have evolved over time, the end goal remains the same: to construct a Christian nationalist education system leading to the establishment of a Christian nationalist nation. We’re seeing a surge of directives and laws being passed across the nation to overhaul the education system and prevent the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. A…

Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

By Chrissy Stroop

…ch of the Republican presidential candidates who showed up to speak at the Philadelphia summit gave a speech that could be classified as a jeremiad. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (who, as a Hindu, is the only non-Christian in the bunch) spoke of the “secular cults” of “wokeism,” “transgenderism,” and “climatism” as symptoms of a supposed moral vacuum that must be filled with a new patriotic national identity. Former ambassador to the UN and South C…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…of my parents’ station wagon trekking back and forth some 150 miles round trip from our home in Oceanside, California to Chino, California. We were passing through long summer months, and my four siblings and I were rather oblivious to the purpose of our repeated family field trips. My father wasn’t. He was the general secretary for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which at the time, consisted of some two dozen families scattered throughout southe…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…nors [was] the backbone of Cuba’s exiled elite.” A meeting with the former Florida governor, brother and son of presidents, and likely 2016 presidential hopeful? That’s donor power. Then, from 2010, there’s the widely disseminated report from Public Campaign described, quite directly by the Huffington Post as one that “raises the question of whether hard-line Cuban Americans will succeed in stifling further changes in U.S.-Cuba relations through t…