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GOP Debate Invokes Lincoln-Roosevelt Gospel, Candidates Take Turns Trampling It

By Marcia Pally

…rowth by, among other things, regulating business. Cruz proposes a flat tax 10% so, he said, a millionaire doesn’t pay less than his secretary. Yet Lincoln found that his initial flat tax burdened the lower and middle classes far more than the rich, and he made it progressive. Cruz said his flat tax idea is inspired by Reagan, who, Cruz said, lowered taxes and saw substantial economic growth. Except that, after a much-publicized tax cut in 1981 (l…

On the “Shunning” of Marriage Equality Opponent Ryan T. Anderson: A Reply to Damon Linker

By Eric C. Miller

…I wrote a piece for RD on the deployment of certain liberal values in the service of illiberal policies. At the top of this list was civility. I argued that some speakers have used the charge of incivility to silence or otherwise inhibit their critics. For my case study I used Ryan T. Anderson, who had written: The principal strategy of the forces that have worked for 20 years to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions has been cultural inti…

2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges

By Donovan Ackley III

…rture in 2013 from Azusa Pacific University, where I was at one time its chair of theology and philosophy, and taught ministry and theology for 15 years while complying with, then recovering from the near-fatal effects of various forms of reparative therapy. In the last year or so, we have observed increasing pushback against LGBTQ students (especially trans*), most publicly at George Fox, where last fall university officials refused to allow a tr…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…. (Unhelpfully, this gave them the same acronym as Pakistan’s intelligence service, namely Inter-Services Intelligence). From very early on, however, al-Qaeda’s top leaders had trouble getting the Iraqi group to do as they asked. Al-Qaeda wanted its subsidiaries and foot soldiers to focus on attacking Western targets, and have increasingly demanded operations which avoid Muslim casualties, in the belief that this would cost them popular support. T…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…ill want to befriend them, or would they be cowed or converted by the mean-spirited rhetoric that has been flying loose recently? It’s that last question that has me thinking that my faith doesn’t need protection, thank you very much. Something has shaken loose in the American psyche this week, a vein of paranoid xenophobia that for a long while has been inflated with poison by people eager to take advantage of the cultural and economic anxieties…

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself” (see also, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, Psalms 146: 7-9). So extensive are obligations to the stranger that they are cited as a model for treatment of the Israelite poor (Leviticus 25:35-39). Ezekiel 47:22-23 grants strangers even land rights. The story of the Good Samaritan, a spurned outsider, is just one of the many Second Testament lessons on how to look upon the stranger (Luke 10: 27-35). These ma…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…me when that was much harder than it is today. She took off for India on a spiritual quest, alone, in 1927. When she was nearing 50, she moved, again on her own, to Hollywood, a place not particularly welcoming to middle-aged women without a lot of money, and reinvented herself here. When she was in her eighties, she decided to start a new life in Buenos Aires. She never had children and never let either of her husbands tie her down, for better or…

A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

By Robert M. Geraci and Nat Recine

…lf of all respondents rated the moral acceptability of torturing Vette as a 1 (labeled “not at all acceptable, torture is torture”) out of 5 (“very acceptable, it’s just a game”). Overall, the survey respondents rated the moral acceptability of torturing her as a 2.4 out of 5, even though a Sith Warrior is supposed to torture innocents, given the reward structure of the game, and Vette is not an actual person, just a character in a storyline. The…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…t out is what you will get back. So, the golden rule may still receive lip service, but it is too expensive to practice, according to the rich nations of the world. What about reparations or repentance? Karmic thinking alerts us that it is too expensive not to practice repentance and repair. Everything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection be…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…) say the same of the American Bishops. 4) Few religious Americans support service refusals to gay and lesbian people on religious grounds… Nearly six in ten (58%) Americans—including 53% of Christians—oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse products or services to gay and lesbian people, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. On the other hand, roughly one-third (36%) of the public support such a policy. Majorities of many re…