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Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…holders from borrowed funds). As tax expert Edward Kleinbard put it to the New York Times, Trump’s proposal is “a very cynical document”: The extraordinary thing about the proposal is that we know that it loses trillions of dollars in revenue, yet at the same time the only people we can identify as guaranteed winners are the most affluent. Bear in mind that the GOP plan actually raises taxes for the poorest wage earners while ensuring that future…

The Third Jihad, Adelson, and Gingrich

By Sarah Posner

…es. First, Linda Sarsour, the director of the Arab American Association of New York, discussed the NYPD: Beckerman and Sarsour then discussed Adelson, and his impact on Gingrich, including the latter’s assertion that the Palestinians are an “invented people:” CLARIFICATION: This post originally said that Adelson funded the Clarion Fund; this was based on a Times piece from earlier this week which reported that the Clarion Fund’s Obsession project…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…sly. Or, apparently, rouse religious leaders to name what is really going on beneath the froth of Washington reporting. And by the way, the New York Times editorial board sees it this way, too….

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…ans to meet with Mahatmas Gandhi). They and other black clubwomen logged many miles as members of the National Council of Negro Women, traveled the world in support of women’s rights, and were dogged supporters of education and the civil rights movement. They labored for the improvement of women’s lives through protest, dignity, and struggle, not self-help pabulum. Dr. Sujay’s preaching resumé and leadership legacy rests on the shoulders of these…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…o a set of sermon-like addresses by Church leaders, not “conferring” in committee and deliberating policy, as is the case for other Protestant denominations. And although Church spokespeople stressed that Conference this year would be a routine affair, attentive Conference observers noticed signs that the Church is aware of what the media has called “the Mormon Moment:” an intensity of public attention driven largely by the presidential campaigns…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…ghpoint, but rather as members of a heretical and unchristian faith. For a number of reasons, including Mitt Romney’s presidential run in 2012, those impulses have been largely diminished. But evangelical worries about Mormonism remain. That Mormons have so thoroughly repudiated Donald Trump while American evangelicalism wrestles with its complicated relationship with him only elevates evangelical leaders’ concerns about the strength of their fait…

Neuroscience Says Evil is “Over”: Not So Fast…

By Paul Wallace

…real question is twofold: “What do scientists say, when they are handed a microphone and placed on a lighted stage in the public square? And how does that compare with what one might find in the scientific journals?” This question may be more difficult than the first, but it’s more urgent. Because it often happens that scientists, like so many priests and other religious leaders, use their hard-earned authority unwisely. They go just a little out…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…turned straight.” Even the researchers call their conclusions “overly optimistic.” “These results do not prove that categorical change in sexual orientation is possible for everyone or anyone, but rather that meaningful shifts along a continuum that constitute real changes appear possible for some. The results do not prove that no one is harmed by the attempt to change, but rather that the attempt does not appear to be harmful on average or inher…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ible.” (emphasis mine) Well, okay, that’s two. But as anyone who reads the New York Times style section, you have to have three instances of something for it to be a trend. Wait. What’s this? From Ina May Gaskin, earth-mama midwife and not-Roman-Catholic hippie commune cofounder, in an excerpt from her March 2011 book, Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta: [P]regnancy is not an illness in need of treatment, and nature’s design of women is not cons…

How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…theological harmony. Not only does this pull focus from issues of racism, misogyny, and Christian Nationalism, but it also helps to distance evangelicals from such analyses even further by laying the groundwork for excluding those with embarrassing views from being labeled as evangelicals in the first place. The limits of this kind of scholarly projection is perhaps most clearly seen in an intellectual quirk revealed by the collection’s chronolog…