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New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

By Gordon Haber

…r in America usually have air conditioning, a car, a television, and a telephone.” These (alleged) facts must be a great comfort to the Americans struggling with joblessness and poverty. There is some decent advice about budgeting in Godonomics, but it’s undermined by all the howlers. Hovind believes, for example, that the Federal Reserve is a “privately owned bank,” that the term “social justice” has been hijacked by secret “Marxists” like Jim Wa…

Freeman Dyson, American Heretic

By Michael J. Altman

…the global tribulation complete with famine, floods, and death. It has its great preacher, Al Gore, the George Whitefield of the Great Envrio-wakening and its Edwardian theologian in NASA’s James Hansen, Gore’s advisor on An Inconvenient Truth. It’s this sacred character of environmentalism that Dyson finds problematic. He admits they may be right—but, it isn’t science, it’s an ideology. But even Dyson’s views on science and the universe seem to s…

Trumpist Strain Among Evangelicals Predates Religious Right

By Paul Harvey

…is, however, ain’t exactly clear—yet. Trump clearly has drawn substantial numbers of evangelical voters, and some support from evangelical spokesmen (including Jerry Falwell, Jr., and who knows how many local ministers or lay leaders). While Moore and others are on the front lines of the #NeverTrump movement, the Pew Research Center suggests that at least half of white American evangelicals think he would be a good President. Theories abound. The…

Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular

By Donna Schaper

…. We also drank a lot of wine and ate a lot of cheese. We were part of the great feminist religious underground—(otherwise known as “The Holy Grail,” h/t Dan Brown). Quarterly, we went on a retreat. We stayed together as a women’s group for many years and even published an illustrated cookbook of all the good food we had eaten together. One of our members recently died. Another, Sister Rachel Fitzgerald, will receive the dedication of my forthcomi…

Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source

By David Zvi Kalman

…ple, these faiths have recognized, have a habit of mistaking depictions of greatness for greatness itself. None of this, crucially, has anything to do with memory. Judaism, Islam, and other faiths have endless options for memorializing their most important figures, including religious practice and the production and study of text. Unlike icons, the memories created by these techniques are dynamic and subjective, and their manifestation is often to…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…t this subject at all. For my own good, they have hinted, but also for the greater good of a “unified progressive movement.” I agree that name-calling is wrong if it is unwarranted. Perhaps we could come up with a better name. “DC Chaplaincy Brigade” might be one, as the essence of chaplaincy is the provision of unquestioning spiritual ministration, often to a powerful ruler. Chaplains can be many things, but prophetic is not one of them. Another…

8: The Mormon Proposition Gets It Right

By Joanna Brooks

…have dismissed the film as blatantly false. But what I’m hearing from a number of Mormons deeply familiar with the Proposition 8 campaign is that the film gets it mostly right. [See also Holly Welker’s review here. – Eds] Some take exception to editing choices that sequence events out of context for dramatic effect; others wish that the filmmakers had not been so cartoonish in their depictions of anti-gay-marriage standpoints, using only notori…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the church than in the darkest days of the U.S. clerical sex abuse scandal, which had Boston at its epicenter. That’s a pretty low bar, but of course n…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…Hillsong NYC, the SoHo House equivalent of Christian congregations in the city. Why then, does he insist against identifying as religious? To a generation brought up in the aftershocks of the Moral Majority and no strong public religious figures that didn’t come armed with brutal social agendas, “religion” and “organized, politicized religion” have become synonymous. For younger generations faith hasn’t disappeared so much as it’s migrated to the…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…Facebook posts written by the very leaders who’ve managed to find the audacity to pat themselves on the back declaring how glad they are that they “weren’t raised to see color but instead to see the heart of Jesus.” Both a bald-faced lie and a slap in my Black face. For me personally, while I do remain a devout Christian, the way I see Jesus differs dramatically from the ultra-conservative, right-wing, I-don’t-see-color deity I spent a good part…