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The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…. The Polish Ordo Iuris, a right-wing catholic organization which leads a crusade against abortion, is likewise well connected on an international level with German pundit Birgit Kelle, a regular on the anti-abortion circuit, having recently spoken at one of their events. Meanwhile, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium—headed by Balázs Orbán (no relation), an MP for the Fidesz Party—which has received 1.4 billion euros in funding from the Orbán governme…

What the Fight over Allah says about the Future of Evangelical Christianity

By Richard Flory

…War II, the concern had broadened to the control of gender and sexuality. New rules were created, governing how and where men and women could interact and dress. Women were required to “cover up” so as to not tempt men with their sexuality, a force that apparently rendered men helpless. By the 1970s, what we now call LGBT issues were listed in all the school rule books—homosexuality was simply not an acceptable identity for evangelicals, or for a…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…Culture War In December, 60 parliamentarians from 20 countries gathered in New York with leaders of religious right organizations from around the globe for a “transatlantic summit” organized by the Political Network for Values. The summit’s declaration of commitments includes rejection of abortion, fertility treatments, surrogacy, and marriage equality and an “unequivocal” commitment to “the defense of the family.” It also calls for religious free…

Biden’s New ‘Restore the Soul of a Nation’ Ad Aimed at Black Voters Wary of the Frontrunner’s Dodgy History

By Peter Laarman

…ng, to say the least. If our “soul” were fully intact, would we even have Trump running things right now? The new ad is clearly intended to shut down any actual reflection on this point and to associate voting for Biden with making your worries go away. Replace a scary old white man with a (more) benign one. What could be simpler? 2. Treating Trump and Trumpism under the “aberration” category is dangerously misleading (also something else that man…

How Did Hasidic Jewry Become a Stronghold of Trumpism?

By Shaul Magid

…m of Zionism. Ask a Hasidic Jew touting Trump’s moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem whether he is a “Zionist” and he will think you’re crazy. Anti-Zionism has been part of the very fabric of Hasidic Judaism for a long time, even now in muted form. But somehow without abandoning that, they found a way to support Israel and deem left-wing anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism, while their form of anti-Zionism is protecting Judaism. The Trumpization of…

I Don’t Think ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Means What You Think it Means: A Counterargument

By Daniel Schultz

…f is shit. In sum, offering thoughts and prayers without listening for the new world that is coming into being is worse than useless. It’s pathetic, an empty shell of faith, like a firework launched high into the sky only to fall back to earth unconsummated. The fire of new things is coming, and the old duds are passing away, soon to be forgotten. There need not be any pre-appointed end to history to know when you’re on the wrong side of it. And t…

Focus on the Family’s New Face?

By Sarah Posner

…y, which was point of this ad.” Traffic to FOFA’s web site increased forty times, and a million people viewed a video interview of the Tebow family by Focus on the Family’s president, Jim Daly. Earll said the interview has a “moving, powerful pro-life message, and has strong gospel message also.” The goal of the ad, she added, “was to start a new dialogue in the country, to move us away from telling people what to think, and to move people toward…

Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?

By Ivan Strenski

…ng today are the skirmishes, back-stabbings, cavalry attacks and such of a worldwide struggle among Sunnis. Interestingly, and ironically, the Shi’a seem relatively far more settled. Hezbollah and the Ayatollahs may have their differences; the Iraqi Shi’a may worry about being swallowed up by their bigger Iranian brother. But, they do not charge each other with not being Muslims. Sunnis do that to Shiites and to each other. The Sunni world is in t…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…build 1,600 new homes in a Jewish settlement in an area it claims around Jerusalem, but which the rest of the world recognizes as the occupied West Bank. Though Netanyahu claimed to have been blindsided by the announcement, Biden condemned it. Over the course of the week, the disagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, after being summoned to the State Depart…

The ‘Have More Children and Disciple Them Like Crazy’ Culture War Strategy is Neither New Nor Responsible

By Cindy Wang Brandt

…their childhood. And the culture war retains its warriors. Kevin DeYoung’s new culture war strategy isn’t new, but it is effective. However, winning this war means everybody loses. A healthy and vibrant society doesn’t advance itself through the imposition of sectarian interests, but through meaningful engagement with a plurality of cultures and ideas. Rather than catechize children to win culture wars, let’s raise them with values of respect and…