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Theses Nailed to Wall of Conservative Jewry

By Benjamin Weiner

…awing from the movement if serious changes are not initiated within ninety days. Though in recent decades it has become standard practice to identify Jews by their “flavor”—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist—denominationalism is actually a latter day, foreign imposition on organized Jewish life, representing the influence of American Protestantism. This rebellion, still modest but growing, against what was until fairly recently cons…

At Religion Newswriters Meeting, Obama Campaign Bans TV Cameras [UPDATED]

By Sarah Posner

…lier today, Wear tweeted a story from the Columbus Dispatch, published two days after his visit to the Ohio State campus. The piece reports: The Obama campaign has dispatched two campaign members to hold People of Faith gatherings at Ohio sites focused on being “our brother’s keeper” and highlighting the president’s efforts to promote economic security, fair immigration laws, health care and education, said Joshua Dickson of Obama’s faith-outreach…

Mitt Romney, Frontrunner: Deal With It

By Joanna Brooks

Mitt Romney is finally getting a little respect these days as the clear Republican frontrunner. He won Monday night’s debate in New Hampshire, where his most credible competitor, Tim Pawlenty, haltingly pulled his punches after tossing out the threatening (and unwieldy) neologism “Obamneycare.” He previewed his 2012 message this week—jobs, jobs, jobs—with a surprisingly effective ad depicting long-term unemployed Nevadans, including women of colo…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…sion. The younger ones—including middle and high school students—are given days off by their Catholic schools to enjoy a school sponsored (and in some cases paid for) trip to the Nation’s Capital. The older ones are college students who make a road trip of it, knowing that a night on a church floor and a day that begins with mass at the Verizon Center is a good way to meet (do they hook up, one wonders) other young people with similar theo-politic…

8: The Mormon Proposition Gets It Right

By Joanna Brooks

…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, using only notori…

UPDATED: The Coup That Never Ends: ‘Whitemanism’ and the Perils of a Flimsy Liberalism

By Peter Laarman

…he actual history. I cringe a little when white Lefties evoke the glorious days of the 1930s, complete with images of industrial workers of all hues marching arm-in-arm and singing “Solidarity Forever.” That’s not how Black people experienced those years. 3. Whitemanism isn’t the same thing as concentrated wealth, but the two work in tandem. And we can’t fully understand how wealth got concentrated in this country without also understanding how Wh…

OK Woman Politely Declines to Thank the Lord; Atheists Unite

By Becky Garrison

…he wasn’t a sheep. Vitsmun will be remembered—at least in the atheist moment—as the moment when the world has to face the fact we’re not this tiny percentage of people. I don’t think the numbers are growing. I think the numbers are now being counted right. Atheists aren’t afraid anymore to speak out.” But what will Wolf do next time?…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…anasia), vocations and ongoing formation (shoring up the rapidly declining number of priests and nuns) and, of course, religious freedom (Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who arranged Kim Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis, received two standing ovations from the bishops.). Then the debate turned to the USCCB’s quadrennial “Faithful Citizenship” voting guide. The bishops had voted earlier to revise the 2007 edition prepared for the 2008 election, whic…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…ge how they understand their own identity. If academic achievement and the number or type of initials after your name is the most important thing in the world to you, then it will change how you view your own masculinity and femininity. Similarly, if having children matters most to you, then you can only be truly “manly” or “feminine” if you have kids. Is there anything you had to leave out? Historians always want to include every interesting anec…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…damentally post-racist country, the racists “are just a few idiots,” not a number tallied in the millions. In “conservatism,” the intellectual legacy of the Confederacy has been normalized and an entire population of Negrophobes is absorbed into society and allowed space to push their anti-Black agenda everywhere from the Senate floor to bank cubicles. It’s been said that politics is the continuation of war by other means. After the surrender at A…