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Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…e LGBTQIA+ community, Satanism, and “European values.” The chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, the Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, prayed for Muslim and non-Muslim soldiers fighting in Ukraine, and said that “No fascists or parasites should be allowed to exist next to us, because we may run short on pesticides.” He also declared that western nations are “minions of the Antichrist and the Dajjal,” and (no surprise) linke…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…ar politicians (including Governor McCrory) look nothing like the sensible Republicans of the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s population will create a more robust de…

God Makes an Independent Film

By Eric Zassenhaus

…ectorial nod from the Celestial Auteur. Absent from Audience of One is the central text. There are no scenes from Gazowsky’s epic Gravity, no summary of its plot. We get only broad outlines of what the divinely inspired film will be about: It will be set in the future, a future much like the biblical past. It will be “Star Wars meets the Ten Commandments.” We see glimpses of sets, medieval-looking costumes, sketches of strange creatures, and fragm…

Are American Christians “Persecuted”?

By Eric C. Miller

…since persecution is a potent rhetorical resource, and since it is also a central theme of the Christian tradition, Christian complaints about systematic marginalization tend to blend quite seamlessly into a broader narrative of persecution. As a practical matter, I’m not sure where one ends and the other begins. For Dreher, then, the explicit disavowal of the word “persecution” may be insufficient to overcome the impression of it in his writing,…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…t column, Jamelle Bouie, writing with incandescent clarity, emphasizes the centrality of human dignity to the democratic vision of Frederick Douglass. However its ubiquity within the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in Humanae Dignitatis, the 1965 papal encyclical establishing religious freedom as the preeminent human right, confirms that “human dignity” possesses uniquely incantatory and “self-evident” meaning for conservative Catholics. In m…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…omeone who would allow millions of ‘unborn babies’ to die? Abortion is the central political issue for many contemporary evangelicals. It is the reason many white conservative Christians will tell you they voted for Trump. The reason they can, and do, ignore all the other unrighteous aspects of his character. And that’s why abortion is the president’s evangelical Trump card. They will remain with him as long as he doesn’t stray from the anti-choic…

Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…g area of Obama’s website, one of the email messages asked: “Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people? With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing.” This particular line of attack also seems to be galvanizing community organizers themselves to speak out in vigorous defense of their work. In s…