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Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…e Union board members considered him a “crazy bigot” who made the tin foil hat charge that the board had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing a…

Fellow Mainline Christians: Are We Completely Useless?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…had similar results. But what about the mainline Protestants? Yeah, about that. For every 100 churches that responded to white-sounding names, only 89 responded to black names. 86 responded to Latina/o names. And an abysmal 72 responded to Asian names. Also, mainliners’ replies to non-white-sounding names tended to be terser and less inviting than our replies to white-sounding names. My people, listen. There is no sense in which this is okay. Ther…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…equitable balance; that would be grotesque,” he writes. “But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at that down there. Look at that.” Wimbledon that year was a religious experience, Wallace says, a kind of grace, an experience of another, better world. And the thing about grace is that it’s inherently good; it’s never inappropriate, even when it sp…

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ngly having pastoral care moments where anger is the predominant emotion. What we discovered is that there were no theological or ecclesiastical resources to deal with anger in terms of righteous indignation; to deal with a wrong that one felt the need to right.* Part of our frustration wasn’t just fueled by the actual events themselves, but by the ways in which we felt part of generation that was in-between; caught in the middle of traditions tha…

Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…testified in her deposition that Ingersoll “came in and we were just chitchatting and he said that he was going to get married. Wanted something really simple, khaki I believe he said. And I just put my hands on his and told him that because of my relationship with Jesus Christ I couldn’t do that, I couldn’t do his wedding.” In other words, Ingersoll didn’t ask Stutzman to “help organize” his wedding, nor did Stutzman tell him she loved him. He a…

Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…n can be motivated as much by fear as by a sense of privilege—the feeling that what applies to my child is, somehow, different from what applies to everyone else’s. There’s a logic to this idea that’s deeply appealing (particularly, Biss argues, for the educated, wealthier parents who form one of the key anti-vaxxer demographics). The heroes of our fictions are defined by their exceptional characteristics, and by their exceptional invulnerability….

GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…o Rubio, a Catholic who likes hanging out with Baptists, and find ways to endear himself to white evangelicals. Cain isn’t a perfect match for fiscal conservatives, either. Cain supported the Wall Street bailout plan and called the purchase of bank stocks by the U.S. Treasury a “win-win.” So that’s two blemishes on his record for Tea Party free marketers. Herman Cain knows how to sell a product, whether it’s a pizza or himself. As primary season g…

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

By Becky Garrison

…teen years after the end of the book on which the Hulu series was based. Hopefully, your friend will garner the energy to create the happy ending Atwood depicts. But first, they’ve got to get off that couch, put on their pussy hat, and fight like hell in 2020. Donald Builds the Wall by Eric Metaxas and Tim Raglin Just kidding! Please don’t. Think of the children….

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…istic arguments he finds persuasive might not be nearly as persuasive to another rational person who happens to have different intuitions. “There are certain things William Lane Craig takes to be metaphysical intuitions, like that it’s undeniable that the universe must have had a cause—and for me it’s not. My intuitions are quite different,” Parsons says. And what then? He adds, “And then, once we’ve reached that point, there’s just no further to…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…upy protests, “I think about that a lot,” said Merritt. “I think: exactly what happened? What happened? Why aren’t there 50 clergy?” That could be, of course, a product of lack of information, an aversion to the style of the Occupy protests, an absence of resources, or many other factors. Merritt acknowledged that clergy have far more administrative demands on them than they did 40 or 50 years ago, constraining their ability to get involved in pol…