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Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…ficult to get smaller and smaller segments of the population vaccinated. Already, there are some signs that it may be a struggle for churches and other religious institutions. Religious leaders are exhausted after the long, disruptive siege of Covid. Their congregations are fearful for their corporate survival even as they embrace new ways of doing church, and are controversy-shy in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. Particularly in rural areas,…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…f which is actually more telling than the content. Four years prior to the stock market crash, the United States was already in the midst of what the historian Robert Handy once called the “American Religious Depression,” a period in which the spiritual mood of the nation (and particularly the rural Protestantism of places like Dayton, Tennessee, where the trial was held) was “greatly affected by the general disillusionment of the postwar decade.”…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…rms his foes,” USA Today, October 26, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/26/donald-trump-presidential-power/71255801007/. [9] Lisa Mascaro, “Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision,” Associated Press, August 29, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981. [10] Todd Graham, “Debate coach: Trump’s constant h…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…her offensive or uninteresting. We may not trust peer review, but we can trust the market. Hence stunts like bus ‘advertisements’. 7:38 Geller says, ‘I was a freedom lover.’ So am I. As a freedom lover, I’m clutching an empty coffee cup that had had tea in it with one hand, and scribbling with the other. I’m mostly looking down, because I’m worried. Sporadic waves of applause have degenerated into a rawer and unrestrained anger. People are jeerin…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…stions and interpretive choices that necessarily breach the historical decorum required to produce an institutional history. “… the goal has been to spread the gospel through distributing Bibles, and ‘to build a Christian civilization.’” Put more simply, you are not supposed to bash the institution you have been commissioned to write a history about. Except that, actually it is possible. Fea critiques the ABS skillfully in parts of the text. For e…

RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God

By Bruce Ledewitz

…sert that some action is cruel, do I mean simply that I consider it to be cruel or do I mean that it is in fact cruel? Most of us, believers and nonbelievers, mean the latter. This position is called the objectivity of values and C.S. Lewis considered it, and not belief in God, to be the core of a religious orientation. The opposite position, that people invent values, that man is the measure of all things, in other words, is scarcely imaginable….

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…ay learn about health-care reform might sound like watching an hour of Fox News. Kids might be instructed to learn to compare and contrast the landmark legislation to the Black Plague, the 9/11 attacks, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, or even the Jonestown massacre, as commentator Pat Caddell told Sean Hannity. (Real classy.) Rather than have students learn anything about the actual details of the plan and whether it was successful at i…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…g an offence of “aggravated homosexuality” to be punishable by death. —BBC News, 15 October A new report released today details the role that US-based renewal church movements have played in mobilizing homophobic sentiment in at least three African countries. “Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches & Homophobia,” written by Rev. Kapya Kaoma for the progressive think tank Political Research Associates, was the result of…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…because homosexuality is evil, and everyone knows that, we’ll accept the “truth” over the more basic truth that thetans have no gender. That’s a paradox that they don’t own, and the only explanation is the unconscious homophobia and transphobia of the day. A lot of the religion came out of homophobia. Think about it—one of the key symptoms of a Suppressive Person is sexual perversion. I got the sense from Inside Scientology that the Sea Org is a d…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…line in hopes of preventing other women from having abortions. Karen Santorum, Rick Santorum’s wife, may well be on a related version of that trajectory, repenting for having spent her 20s living with a man, 40 years her senior, who helped found an abortion clinic. “Women who are having abortions, especially religious women, feel that their only option is to go ahead and have the abortion, say that they really didn’t have any other choice, [and]…