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New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…fears among white evangelicals. “In the average evangelical white person’s mind, who’s more likely to commit a crime against me?” he asked, answering himself, “A black male. Especially a young black male.” For both McBath and Schenck, while there may be political answers to gun violence, their diagnosis of the problem is a spiritual and moral one. “It’s a spiritual and moral issue when people are dying needlessly the way they are dying, by fear an…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…nger. Even when I agree with his statements about eradicating poverty, becoming friends with our enemies, and the like, I have scruples about giving the new pope too much praise—as if other people have not said the same things and more for eons. The papacy is the ultimate bully pulpit, but it works both ways—on things that are progressive and things that are conservative. It is risky to embrace papal remarks when one agrees, only to live long enou…

Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…lso thought that the mere mention of Obama’s work as a community organizer might return Jeremiah Wright’s name to the fore, since it was during his time as a community organizer in Chicago that Obama met Wright and began attending Trinity United Church of Christ. Moreover, since some critics charge that community organizing is radical, perhaps the GOP chose to mention it as part of its general strategy of subtly painting Obama as too liberal for m…

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

By Sarah Posner

…undraiser next week for the US Pastors’ Council, which is headed by Welch. Tickets for the event range from $1,000 to $10,000, and Mike Huckabee is also an invited speaker. Taylor’s theme, “A Battle the Nation Is Watching: Is the Rule of Law More Powerful than City Hall?” seems serendipitous for the conservative agitators against the supposedly oppressive state. It’s almost as if the city of Houston wanted to help the Pastors’ Council raise money….

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…can’t find any job; among younger males, especially African-Americans, the number is much higher—in many areas one in two workers is without work. Yet Congress, with a Democratic majority, can’t get it together to extend unemployment benefits. Our solons just flew out of town for a weeklong holiday vacation. Republicans, joined by Democratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…d effective way. Interactivity was still relatively limited, and our media mimicked our religion: much of it was still top-down, though change hung in the air. But it’s Benedict who has seen unprecedented change in communications technology—enough to make anyone wish for retirement. He’s observed the massive development of YouTube and Google, the ubiquity of smart phones and mobile devices, and the rise of Facebook and Twitter, which boast nearly…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…and his violent side-kick Shannon, the Me of “Me and my Uncle.” And to my mind the most illuminating expression of this is the tongue-in-cheek “U.S. Blues” in which Uncle Sam joyfully explains his audacious and deceptive allure. Such duplicity is emboldened through the art of seduction. A candyman is a seducer, and the song on American Beauty is very clear about this. One might compare Sammy Davis Jr.’s 1972 hit “Candyman” with the Dead’s version…

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…rns to developers of approved projects the sales tax paid by visitors on admission tickets, food, gift sales and lodging costs. Developers have 10 years to reach the 25 percent threshold. Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says there are concerns over the project, but it’s too early to tell whether the proposed business incentives would be unconstitutional in that it would involve excessive entanglemen…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…d. For Rushdoony, Barton, and apparently Huckabee, history is not the academic discipline most of us have in mind when we use the term: the effort to assemble evidence from the past to understand events, their context, and change over time. In fact, Jon Stewart nailed it when he argued that Barton “doesn’t seem like a historian, he seems seem almost like a theologian whose thrust is ‘I want this country to be Christian and go by the Bible.’” The “…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…ables (The Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his assistant-nurse-chauffeur. They have a ball together doing crazy—and sometimes nasty—things, and save each other from an apparently inex…