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Who (or What) are Sarah Palin’s Prayer Warriors?

By Sarah Posner

…; again, at the time, I wrote that the concept and practice of “spiritual warfare” takes many forms. In the charismatic-Pentecostal world in which Palin was saved and attended church, there are a lot of “leaders” who show up to guest preach or to speak at conferences; just because somebody is in the audience or had hands laid on them by a preacher or said something nice about an evangelist doesn’t mean they believe everything that the person preac…

A New Theopolitical Order: But What About The Women?

By Frances Kissling

…ery good women, like Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Joan Chittister. They are carefully selected for their geniality, their good humor—because women, unlike men, can’t be too ambitious; they can’t have an agenda. And there is little evidence that the agenda of the religious center left has been influenced these past five years by religious feminism. If anything, it has moved further and further from feminism as it has gotten greater recognition w…

Swiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…reotype that a critical mass of Americans are more comfortable with yet invariably fear. Hence, opponents are able to politically balkanize Senator Obama by racially “otherizing” him in the minds of those who view him through skeptic lenses. In recent weeks, some have cast him as Barack “Hussein” Obama, the radical Islamo-fascist who, by virtue of an Arabic sounding name, must sympathize with “the terrorists.” Others have used his relationship wit…

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

…bly, while both men and women were less likely to go to church than four years earlier, women’s attendance dropped slightly more. But following that, men’s attendance held more or less steady, with the same 31% attendance in 2016, 30% in 2020 and 2022, and 32% in 2024. But women’s attendance declined precipitously, dropping five points between 2012 and 2020. Since then it’s been holding steady at 27%. Overall, women’s weekly attendance dropped nin…

When Children’s Literature is Not Defined by “Innocence”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ney and included a huge swath of twentieth-century children’s literature, particularly classics like Little House on the Prairie, which truly needs more analysis from the vantage point of religious studies. Perhaps that will be a different book. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? When I tell people about my book, they expect it to be prescriptive: a tome in which I tell people what to read to children, or what not to rea…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…ook comes out during something of a “Book of Mormon” moment. Literary scholars are beginning to study it and teach it as a peculiar and deeply complicated text. This is new. It’s a break from the more than century-long tradition of intentional Book of Mormon illiteracy among serious readers (inaugurated by Mark Twain’s famous quip that the book is “chloroform in print,” which was sustained by the likes of Harold Bloom, who said the book does not h…

Neil Gorsuch Shows How Donald Trump Loses (Some) White Evangelical Christians

By John Stoehr

…reason for leaving. White evangelicals taking the teachings of Jesus to heart are not who we should be talking about when asking what Trump could possibly do to alienate white evangelical Christians. The vast majority of that cohort is willing to eat virtually any insult as long as Trump sees to it that the right people are punished and, more importantly, that they can do the punishing. This is why Monday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court, which e…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…n Waite simply pronounced at the outset that “The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.” The irony of the Court’s fully enfranchising private corporations at the very same time that it was systema…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

…ughts and prayers” indeed. So if it takes the former president many more years of golf in Saudi Arabia (or another, similar nation without an extradition treaty) to ensure that these concerns about democracy are addressed well then so be it. I’m not above a bit of strategic prayer (and whether you’re a praying person or not, I hope you’re not either). One of my touchstone thinkers, Walter Brueggemann, calls prayer “the theological imagination of t…

In the Dark Night of Disaster

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ders of that text — Evil and the God of Love — will note the holes in the various arguments, but will also appreciate the marked and desperate need to make sense of the unthinkable. For centuries Christian scholars and ministers have wrestled with the justice of God in light of human suffering; but ultimately their responses fall short. Few in the general public would accept the idea of a demonic god as the backbone of Christianity. Some are willi…