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A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…ould say it was a talk. I thought she was sort of docile, harmless—in some ways lost in that crowd. I saw her responding in a sporadic way to people’s yells and comments, so she was alert, and I guess much more than I anticipated. Our interaction was so short-lived. At first it was sympathy. Then shock. Then anger. Then a kind of furious sadness. How did your faith guide you in that moment, if it did? I’m a big fan of “Letter from a Birmingham Jai…

The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…evangelical and LDS institutions. And indeed, the schools do operate this way. To take just one example, as you can verify by perusing ADF’s website, a number of staff lawyers at ADF have degrees from Regent University, a far right-wing interdenominational school founded by notorious culture warrior Pat Robertson himself. Regent is, naturally, a CCCU member school, which will bring us back around to the issue of why we should view ADF and the CCC…

Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…a philosopher par excellence!) Hence I tried to tell their story in such a way that reflected, in some small way, the rhetorical sensibility of the evangelical preaching tradition. To be sure, this book will invariably piss someone off. Some may think I was too critical of the phenomenon, others not critical enough. And many may simply feel the book is a piece of crap. (Thank God I have a mother that will love me regardless!) But my intention is…

Why I’m Not An Organ Donor

By Kristel Clayville

…g to take. The social review by the team is highly subjective, even in the best scenarios. Since donated organs are a scarce resource, the goal is often to find the best host (recipient) for the organ so that it does not go to waste. In that environment, organs tend to go to people who can have a full-time caregiver, has family who will help with care, doesn’t take personal risks, and has a medical history of doing what doctors tell them to do. Al…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…ded question, but what is Islam’s purpose? Or, perhaps I’ll put it another way: What is it that attracts you, and keeps you affiliated with, this religion? Well, I believe Islam’s main purpose is the same with that of all other Abrahamic monotheisms: To make humans aware of their Creator and His intentions. In other words, it is primarily about connecting God and man. Of course, God, through the Qur’an, gives man some rules and principles that wil…

We May Be Sacrificing Our Children to the God of the Gun — But it’s Not That the God Requires the Deaths

By Stephanie Frank

…proves willing to sacrifice its children, over and over again—is, I think, best construed with an eye to Hubert’s and Mauss’ theory. It’s not that the god requires the deaths; it’s that the deaths create the god. The deaths we allow determine the god we are—one way or another—complicit in worshiping. Perhaps more to the point, the perversity of the deaths—the perversity of child murder in elementary classrooms, or the murder of African Americans w…

Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…hurch of the Covenant. I have sometimes thought that all good ecumenism is best served by not pulling punches. More of a John Wayne style ecumenism. Apparently the Rev. Runnion-Bareford agrees, as Rev. Taylor and the Church of the Covenant just got punched in the nose for acting like idiots. John Wayne and Rev. Runnion-Bareford do not suffer fools lightly. The glee of a shared task in reprimanding dissenting Christian women across denominational l…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…and 1940s work of French Catholic personalist intellectuals and on the spread of “human dignity” in Western European constitutions, beginning with the 1937 Christian Democratic constitution of Ireland, Moyn concludes that “through this lost and misremembered transwar era, it is best to see human rights as a project of the Christian right for the most part, not the secular left.” Is the advancement of human rights in the 1940s best seen as a proje…

You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…the equivalent of subtitles that say “[Speaking Foreign Language]” or the way we say, “Chinese religions.” “Near Eastern religions.” Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is one of the best recent histories of the Muslim world, though of course, as the title suggests, that is not its primary purpose. Still, it’s hard to find good overviews and that is why I turn to Frankopan (and recommend you do). Do we find that the “Arab…

How “Mindfulness” Lost Its Mind

By Thomas Joiner

…erverts it. Regarding its being a panacea, I show in the book how even the best-designed, most robust research on mindfulness is overhyped. Regarding the pernicious effects of self-focus, those are general in a species that needs a thriving polity and society to prosper. Is there anything you had to leave out? As I wrote, I felt more friendly toward authentic forms of original mindfulness, so I found myself leaving out some of the scorn I original…