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Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…country in its founding document. Nor do I mean President Bush’s plan to start a war in Mesopotamia, to help make Israel a land for Jews only, and to keep all children in ignorance in order to usher the second coming of Jesus according to one reading of Revelation. (However, I must say I am deeply impressed by his ability to use the Left Behind series of books as a guide for governance. I always assumed religious people used scripture, not fiction…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…she ultimately shepherded the drafting of the Council’s recommendations, particularly those on reforming aspects of the Office that critics believed violated the Establishment Clause. That’s not to say that he only picked liberals — in fact, Obama did choose many advisors who are most definitely conservative (such as Joel Hunter, who is also on Newsweek’s list) and center-right (such as Jim Wallis, who I’d imagine would be unhappy to be placed on…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…75% of Americans call themselves Christians, but only half or so of those are regular practitioners, and the numbers continue to decline. Meanwhile, the nation as a whole has seen a significant shift to the left by party affiliation if not by ideological descriptor. Only a determined minority of social conservatives continues to move to the right. It’s easy to get lost in the fog of math, but the underlying point here should be clear: not everyon…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…he mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams,” based on a remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses hi…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…n any case to protect. These responses, whether protective or challenging, are hardly new. One need only consider the Lisbon earthquake to see them play out with a strange familiarity regarding present circumstances. Such a return to the past is sadly telling in relation to the present. Lisbon: The End of Optimism? The Lisbon earthquake struck the capital of Portugal on November 1, 1755, All Saints’ Day. Scientists today speculate that it probably…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…or less prevalent in the Orthodox community than anywhere else; but there are a number of peculiarities to Orthodox Jewish life that have made the reporting of abuse less common than in society at large. “I think the subject of abuse is probably the same in any religious community,” says Michael Salomon, a Long Island psychiatrist, who has just finished working on an as-yet-unpublished book about sexual abuse in the Orthodox world. “Different rel…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…xisting parish system. Episcopal Church emerging mission pioneer the Rev. Karen Ward, Abbess of Church of the Apostles (COTA) located in the Fremont section of Seattle has been partnering with her UK Anglican counterparts for year. She started Anglimergent, a social networking site to connect Anglicans globally. Recently, she co-founded Episcopal Village with Jon Myers, a postulant the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, who planted Beacon Hill Church P…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…ill never be physically attacked by another human being, all of us know we are targets. A Theology of Anti-Gay Bullying Anti-gay bullying is a theological issue because it has a theological base. I find it difficult to believe that even those among us with a vibrant imagination can muster the creative energy to picture a reality in which anti-gay violence and bullying exist without the anti-gay religious messages that support them. These messages…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…ogy. In fact, the official pronouncements of the mental health professions are clear that scientific evidence does not warrant psychologists telling a client that therapy can change orientation. In fairness, there are small groups of therapists associated with religious groups who question the APA’s findings. However, most of the therapists who argue with the APA are associated with churches and organizations which see homosexual behavior as immor…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…ges that National Catholic Reporter blogger Michael Sean Winters notes “clearly are designed to make it lean more to the right and to the GOP.” The final straw was the leadership elections. Four candidates for key posts within the conference were “Francis” candidates—bishops he has elevated since 2014. Despite this, Youngstown, OH, Bishop George Murry, won for the not terribly consequential post of chair of the Committee on Catholic Education. Phi…