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New Book on Trump and Evangelicals Gets it Mostly Right

By Greg Carey

…nd—disenfranchisement—by granting them access to power. Readers will come away with a nuanced appreciation for fear, nostalgia, and power as fundamental elements of evangelical discourse. But there are other ways to tell the story. Fea repeatedly calls Trump a “strongman,” suggesting the threat of authoritarianism. Perhaps Fea could have more directly tied Trump’s appeal to evangelicalism’s prominent authoritarian streak as part of a global erosio…

Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Libido

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ationship with another person. I want someone I can love, someone to be my best friend, someone who will dream with me and build a life together. I want someone that I love so much that even if we were unable to have sex for some reason, I would still remain with them in that loving, committed relationship simply because our love goes deeper than the physical act of sex. Certainly there are promiscuous homosexuals—but, given the simple statistics…

What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change

By Haroon Moghul

…ask the reader of the Qur’an, over and over again, to reflect, to use her best judgment, to make her best effort, and to learn from others? If the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was the last Prophet—and Islam certainly insists on as much—then everything he communicated has to be universal enough to be meaningful but flexible enough to reflect the nuances and characteristics of different experiences. This is one thing a lot of people don’t u…

Toward a Richer Ethical Discourse in Trumplandia: A Response to Harper’s “Trump: A Resister’s Guide”

By Peter Laarman

…ng in what the provocative Harper’s essayists have to say, I am inching my way toward thinking that there is a way to talk about religion and to engage with religion that is neither creepily apologetic (in either the old or new meaning of that term) nor creepily antiseptic and thus untrue to religion’s rhapsodic dimension. Four of the ten Harper’s essayists stand out: Corey Robin, Wesley Yang, Tim Barker, and Sarah Schulman. Robin’s “The Dream of…

Mini-Review of A Jihad for Love

By Kate Childs Graham

…pic of Islam and homosexuality. The film has won numerous awards including Best Film at the Tri-Continental Film Festival in India and Best Documentary at Turin LGBT Film Festival. The film explores the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims in several different countries, portraying jihad not as a holy war but as a struggle to reconcile one’s faith with one’s sexuality. The film doesn’t feature experts or religious scholars, but rather individual women…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…le, because the deceiver is so powerful that any contact risks corruption. Best to avoid it entirely, lest you end up like Bill Nye, the Science Guy, who changed his mind on GMOs after visiting Monsanto. Under most circumstances, the reasonable explanation would be that Nye was persuaded by argument and evidence. But for those who believe in Monsatan, the better—the only—explanation is that Nye was coerced, just as the best explanation for my skep…

How Do Christians, Atheists Compare on Muslim Tolerance?

By Darren E. Sherkat

…n the most obnoxious and ridiculous views must be tolerated. Bad ideas are best conquered with good ideas rather than with repression. Yet, the anti-civil liberties orientation of Christian politicians and pundits appears to be shared by several prominent atheists like Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. For them and their followers, as for Trump and Cruz, radical Islam is best countered through jailing imams, preventing incendiary preac…

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Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…he American Political Science Association’s 2020 Ralph J. Bunche Award for best scholarly work exploring ethnic and cultural pluralism, and co-winner of the award for best book on race and ethnic politics. Myisha Cherry: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, Myisha is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life….

RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

By Mary E. Hunt

…re Osama Bin Laden dwells and how we will find him one day. Politics has always been a dubious business. While the smoky backrooms have given way to spin rooms, the same shallow approach to issues, the same playing fast and loose with facts and truth persists. What if we took serious stock of the “polis,” the city-state of Greek origin, where the citizens govern themselves? What if we decided our polis was too important to be left to the politicia…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…ng the question: how can we open the gate and connect with the public in a way that best achieves our shared goal of dismantling capitalist and white supremacist orthodoxies? It is worth asking how we might most effectively challenge the ideological trap of capitalist realism with a counter-discourse that avoids being domesticated or controlled. It is worth asking how we might most effectivity make contact with the public while dodging the establi…