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Why Conservative Evangelicals Won’t Let Us Pee in Peace

By Daniel Schultz

…aught that loving others was more important than obeying laws set down by religious authorities, especially those who would (ahem) declare their own self-serving positions to be the law. This should be obvious to anyone who’s bothered to pick up the Gospel of Luke or Acts of the Apostles. But Mohler and other SBC leaders offer up the ethics of the white cis-het patriarchy and want the world to receive it as a universal moral code. They would be ju…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…he words of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher—and those who passionately believe that good Christians need to be good custodians of the planet. Two years ago I went to Liberty University in Virginia, the home of the late Jerry Falwell and asked a lecture room full of students if they believed in the threat of global warming. Not a single hand went up. I travelled up the road to the Eastern Mennonite College at Harrisonburg and asked a simila…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…miracle any of them do.” Historical or Hysterical Revisionist? While Mansfield may feel that he was sold short by Politico.com’s Ben Smith, others, who have spent a great deal more time with Mansfield’s work have found it both troubling and in some cases lacking in depth. Describing a USA Today column by Mansfield titled “The Founders got it right: Religion now rests in a tortured place in society today, thanks largely to unfortunate and misguided…

The Biblical Circus of William Stringfellow

By Nathan Schneider

…friend. It followed me to graduate school in California, where I found myself delivering it onto unsuspecting listeners at an academic conference. Now, unmistakably, it has followed me to New York City, where I keep discovering people who knew the man. It has followed them longer. Now in his mid-eighties, Fr. Daniel Berrigan’s eyes grew wide when I told him the other evening whose shadow had been following me. In 1970, the priest-poet Berrigan wa…

The Wrong Man: Why Falwell’s Paying for His Indiscretion But Trump Gets a Pass

By Leslie Dorrough Smith

…s friend’s similarly-bare pregnant belly. This photo may strike some as a relatively tame reason for Falwell to be ushered from the stage, at least compared to his other, more controversial statements—including everything from calling the threat of Covid-19 an overblown political hoax to posting overtly racist photos on social media—but there’s an irony here that begs to be considered. Since President Trump has an even more consistent history of d…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…n, and even the born-again George W. Bush. But it wasn’t Christianity, or religious faith itself in general, that helped make Republican voters more likely to be duped by fake news than their Democratic compatriots. (There were, and continue to be, lots of progressive or liberal people of faith.) Instead, susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism’s rejection of expert elites. To see this connectio…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…ed view of Jerusalem favors the perception that Jerusalem “belongs” to Israel. Israel’s leadership, beginning with its first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, has always been acutely aware of this “biblical” worldview of Jerusalem and cultivates it continually. In 2000, at the United Nations “Millennium Summit,” then Prime Minister Ehud Barak made the case for continued Israeli control over all of the holy city, east and west. Very astutely, and u…

Corporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion… In the 11th Century

By Austin Dacey

…egal Tradition. Without the legal device of a self-regulating association relatively insulated from arbitrary state power—be it guild, school, or church—our civilization would be unrecognizable. Amanda Porterfield, a professor of religion and history at Florida State University, observes at The Immanent Frame that although Americans are profoundly divided “over the extent to which corporate bodies should be free to govern themselves, these bodies…

Supreme Court OKs State Funding Scheme for Religious Schools and Bars Challenges

By Peter Laarman

…nds, are obtaining favorable tax treatment from the state for advancing a religious cause? If I know Petra’s views as well as I think I do, I doubt that Justice Kennedy has won her over. Petra will argue that any tax subsidy for religion, in a closed system where the power to tax is limited, violates the non-establishment clause. Petra will also argue that the principle of taxpayer-supported universal public education is severely undercut if more…

On the 20th Anniversary of Waco

By Kate Blanchard

…never be discovered embezzling money, enjoying kinky sex, or (The Da Vinci Code notwithstanding) fathering surprise children. It’s not necessary to label something a “cult” to understand the potential peril involved in looking to a living guru. However honest and virtuous that guru might be, she—like the rest of us—is susceptible to tripping and falling right up until the day she dies. What makes some folks willing and able to trust in a charismat…