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Lessons in Rhetorical Strategy from a DC Bishop

By Mary E. Hunt

…ization for Marriage’s strategy to drive a wedge between LGBTIQ people and African Americans—and to urge Latinos to avoid being assimilated to corrupt “Anglo” values that include respect for same-sex loving families. In the wake of all this, I read a recent letter from a Maryland-area bishop with new attention. Here’s a head’s up to those working on marriage equality. First, the leaders of the opposition to same-sex marriage in Maryland are not na…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…omeone who would allow millions of ‘unborn babies’ to die? Abortion is the central political issue for many contemporary evangelicals. It is the reason many white conservative Christians will tell you they voted for Trump. The reason they can, and do, ignore all the other unrighteous aspects of his character. And that’s why abortion is the president’s evangelical Trump card. They will remain with him as long as he doesn’t stray from the anti-choic…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of young people and inspired many of their more significant social movements. Indeed, rock has been so important to American life that its influence has come to rival that of larger and more ancient institutions. One of these, the Church, has responded t…

Flouting SCOTUS, Religious Liberty Advocates “Give The Game Away”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hat essentially asks the court to either recognize or deny the plaintiff’s central identity, the misgendering in Liberty Counsel and NOM’s briefs are crucial. And, as Stern rightly points out, that act lays bare the animus behind NOM and Liberty Counsel’s long-standing opposition to trans equality (emphasis mine): The briefs reject the very validity of Grimm’s identity in a manner that is both offensive and petty. Indeed, these organizations are s…

Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation

By Robert P. Jones

…elicals (81%) also say people of faith should focus on all issues that are central to their values even if it makes them less effective in politics, rather than focusing on one or two issues in order to be more politically effective [PRR 11/2008]. 2. Single-Issue Voting Alleged Departure: Cizik opposed voting for candidates based on single issues, but argued that a candidate’s entire platform and character should be taken into account. Evangelical…

How Can the Former President’s Opponents Repudiate His Fascist Rhetoric Without Giving Him the Publicity He Craves?

By Jeremy L. Sabella

…p’s comments are red meat for the base. While enjoying historic leads over Republican rivals, he’s leaving nothing to chance, riling up his hardcore supporters ahead of primary season. On another level, his comments are an attempt to retake the national narrative. Ever since the repeal of Roe v. Wade, Democrats have not only mobilized successfully around abortion; they’ve defied political gravity. None of the factors that typically sap political m…

Immigration Reform: A Country Divided, Or a Richer Society?

By Cecilia Menjivar

…eggy Levitt uses the term “religious citizenship” to describe the way that Indian Hindus, Pakistani Muslims, Irish Catholics, and Brazilian Protestant migrants living in Boston carve out alternative sacred landscapes and imagined global religious communities. For these migrants, religion is no longer rooted in a single country; they can remain active members of their origin communities while becoming active participants in the society that receive…

Rejecting Blood Sacrifice Theology, Again

By Peter Laarman

…s should be seen as an ally and not an enemy. A Better Atonement has been promoted as good reading for Lent, when the meaning of the crucifixion is especially on the minds of serious Christians. But it can and should be read at any time by anyone who’s even considering whether “that old-time religion” isn’t quite good enough any more. What I started out writing, churlishly and petulantly, is that I could only surmise that the market for books li…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…e LGBTQIA+ community, Satanism, and “European values.” The chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, the Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, prayed for Muslim and non-Muslim soldiers fighting in Ukraine, and said that “No fascists or parasites should be allowed to exist next to us, because we may run short on pesticides.” He also declared that western nations are “minions of the Antichrist and the Dajjal,” and (no surprise) linke…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…ar politicians (including Governor McCrory) look nothing like the sensible Republicans of the past that had kept North Carolina from being fully captured in the Old South (or the old South Africa for that matter). They will tell you that these politicians are not Republicans but reactionaries who fear a multicultural progressive future for North Carolina. Whether in fact the emerging diversity of the state’s population will create a more robust de…