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“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…to split the difference over Afghanistan, neither the minimalist nor the maximalist option; this Goldilocks approach to foreign policy continues on his response to President Bashar al-Assad’s most recent alleged use of chemical weapons. And in this conflict, where would President Obama have us stand? In two places at once—it is like the President is negotiating with himself while he is negotiating with his allies while he is threatening our purpor…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rnational media. A reasonable question under the circumstances is what to expect next?” Tasmagambetov continued. His speech concluded to say that education should be based on building a society capable of resisting the “gay propaganda”. Lebanon: Legal Progress, Continued Peril for LGBTs The Inter Press Service News Agency reports this week on “The Darker Side for Gays in Lebanon.” In a country where civil liberties remain the prerogative of the po…

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…e—those are some of the names that come immediately to mind. What’s your next book? Twenty-five years ago, I published a book entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. This summer (2014), Oxford University Press released the fifth edition of that book, with a new chapter (Latino evangelicals) and an afterword that provides an update on many of the people and the places I wrote about in the previo…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…eaning of conservatism. Some, like Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, Robert Nisbet, Eric Voegelin, and others, were conservationists. Some, like Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and, to a lesser extent, Barry Goldwater, didn’t have much use for social tradition. Since I’m committed to the idea that conservatism is adaptable and that these, sometimes significant, adaptations arise from contradictory political and philosophical commitments, I think con…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ing away, let’s just say he’s working an angle. So what is the cult doing exactly, beyond explaining how the traumatized optimist Kimmy Schmidt got to New York with nothing more than a backpack full of cash and a middle school education? Well, a good place to start might be the equally ridiculously named fake religion from the elder Tina Fey/Robert Carlock creation, 30 Rock. Kenneth Parcell, you may recall, belonged to the Eighth Day Resurrected C…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…Pan Amazon region do not inspire any confidence that this one will be any better, just a scaled-up version of the same. For example, there were high hopes for the Amazonian Synod with a Latin American pope. But the well-documented requests for women to be included in ordained ministry and for married men to be ordained as priests all evaporated when votes were taken and the papal document emerged. What would motivate these people whose hopes were…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…before the State of Israel was established, conservative evangelicals had expressed extreme hostility to Islam, “the imposter religion,” as it was known in some late 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant circles. A century and a half ago Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, spent a few weeks in Jerusalem. He was despondent before the visit, and even more so afterwards. Jerusalem, for Melville, represented the past, not the future. In his journa…

Are Social Issues Non-Issues?

By Jay Michaelson

…rence to “religious freedom” from Romney. Insiders know that the latter is code for exempting individuals and institutions from following government mandates on health care and provisions on anti-discrimination. But to the middle, Romney’s comment surely passed under the radar. And as for Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, even Paul Ryan is for that now. All this in the shadow of an unprecedented legal war against women’s reproductive choices, and an ever-morp…

What Makes Mormons Weird?

By Joanna Brooks

…own problems for the Mormon public image, a sense of radical disconnection between exterior and interior. And that sense of disconnection, of the public not quite matching the private, is only exacerbated by the insularity of Mormon communities, the secrecy of Mormon temple rites, and the privacy of faith practices like wearing sacred undergarments. Our difference—it’s there—under our clothes, just out of sight. Mormons learn to manage this balanc…

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…he gig is up for these folks. They’ve finally realized that no amount of tax or regulation cutting, no amount of abortion or same-sex marriage banning, is going to bring back their jobs. They’re culturally alienated from the Democratic Party, with it’s tilt toward educated, urban elites and people of color. That leaves Trump as their last and best bet. And as the primary contests move into the Rust Belt and Northeast, this Catholic base may turn o…