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Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

…ou’ve never marched in the streets with thousands eager to “prayer walk” a city for Jesus singing: Shine, Jesus, shine Fill this land with the Father’s glory Blaze, Spirit, blaze Set our hearts on fire Flow, river, flow Flood the nations with grace and mercy Send forth your word Lord, and let there be light The only thing “new” is that evangelical right-wing worship politics is no longer new. And that is the one thing the Times article missed. It…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…orschach test in which Americans see either the America they want to “make great again” or the America they want to see live up to its promises. Italian Americans’ embrace of Columbus during the early 20th century can be tied to their quest to assimilate into the largely hostile white Protestant society that marginalized European Catholics. By asserting Columbian primacy over America’s origin myth, it allowed for the consolidation of Catholic and…

John McCain: No God But Country

By Kathryn Lofton

…on carry on in the Judeo-Christian principle that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?” A person’s faith is, according to McCain, an “important part of our qualifications to lead.” Bracketing his dubious grasp of constitutional history, McCain’s words direct our assessment. How ought we estimate the existence of such Judeo-Christian principle? And is such a principle properly religious? As I proceed here with a s…

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…rvants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth. It seems pretty clear that the spirit of radical mystic Thomas Merton hovers over this film. Merton’s name comes up twice in the screenplay, and both Schrader and his protagonist seem to resonate with the words that Merton wrote in 1962 to Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan theologian, poet, and revolutionary: The world i…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…onclusions from the fact, except to document, describe, and underscore the great lengths he took to conceal it. Watergate: Baker asserts that (much to his own surprise) Richard Nixon, while not innocent, was not the instigator of the Watergate crimes and cover-up, but appears to have been set up. Among those he implicates in the setup are Poppy Bush and perhaps most remarkably, John Dean, the former White House counsel who became best known as the…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…from a Birmingham Jail, wrote about the “fierce urgency of now.“ These two great leaders each sought to teach us about our roles in the face of the great moral issues of our time. That said, religious progressives seem to be politically stalled, distracted, and lacking a coherent strategy and effective tactics. Therefore, it is safe for government officials to ignore them, and we can see the results on just about everything that really matters. Bo…

In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…almost Shakespearean,” Sasse notes, “about a man claiming to represent the great majority in defense of the great tradition now having to depend on an arcane legislative procedure.” Sasse insists that the public outcry for a school prayer amendment was a “genuinely ‘bottom-up’ movement,” citing letters and other documents in the Judiciary Committee trove. A high school student in Wyoming, for example, “implored all faithful countrymen ‘to remember…

Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

…the next year and patted ourselves on the backs and felt very proud of our great accomplishment. The second school year began on September 4, 2001––and one week later 9/11 occurred. We knew the real test was ahead of us now. Luckily, we were in the beginning of the geography quarter. We had a few weeks before religion and Islam comes at the end of the semester. The 2001-2002 school year was as successful as the previous year had been. In ways, mor…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…while it seems that Benedict’s confirmation of the group points to the veracity of its existence, I am still not so sure. First of all, from the news reports about the book, it doesn’t seem that Benedict has produced any evidence of such a group’s existence. He doesn’t seem to have named names or given any details about how they worked or what policies they tried to influence. While I don’t doubt the sincerity of Pope Benedict, I do question his p…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…erthrew a dictator!’ ‘Hey we have the Caliph!’ Ugh. (V) Muhammad Ali, The Greatest of All Time The Good: A three-time world heavyweight champion, a convert first to the Nation of Islam and then Sunni Islam, Muhammad Ali was and remains one of the most famous and beloved athletes and celebrities of all time. On moral grounds, he refused to fight in the Vietnam War and was stripped of his boxing license for three years. He lit the torch at the ’96…