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Mormonism Cost Romney the Election (But It’s Not What You Think)

By Kathryn Lofton

…earnestness, and explained private equity as just another way to organize free enterprise. Not because it’s a crafty re-framing of his biography, but because it is also true: it’s true to the very thing his supporters find so solid, and his detractors find so discomfiting, about Romney. If he had cast himself as such a pioneer Mormon, he would have established an image that would have worked both sides of the aisle against one another, capitalizi…

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

By Peter Laarman

…d England’s far-flung colonies and possessions, most notably its stupendous-wealth-generating sugar islands (Barbados and Jamaica, primarily) and its thriving North American plantations. The emphasis on “Protestant” is important. The so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 was all about ensuring Protestant rule forever by driving out James II and preventing this popish king’s newborn son from displacing his daughter Anne in the line of succession. T…

Re-branding Is Not the Cure: Campolo & Claiborne Miss the Core Problem in Evangelicalism

By Peter Laarman

…an functional ethic of acquisitive individualism yields a very strong made-in-hell fusion that won’t soon be dissolved. The form of devotion that Chris Lehmann aptly calls the “money cult” has never been stronger among U.S. Christians who identify as evangelical. There certainly was a time when leading evangelicals railed against money grubbing and corporate domination (e.g., William Jennings Bryan), but that time is long past. There is, in fact,…

“This is What Theology Looks Like”: Disrupting a Crucifying System

By Jorge Juan Rodriguez V

…be unpacked, for within its rhythmic syncopation enacted in a physical protest lies a prophetic challenge for faith communities in this country’s moment of racial/ethnic crisis. In marching in solidarity with those communities directly affected by police brutality and systemic racism—including the very communities of many faith leaders marching—this chant draws attention to a physical disruption. Moving away from an academic or interpersonal disc…

The Santorum Legacy: The Fertility Wars

By Sarah Posner

…generals—that it’s easy to see where Harris’ appraisal of Santorum’s family-man qualifications come from. In this election, and the birth control debate that has become a significant part of its soundtrack, the convictions of the Quiverfull community seem to have made a mainstream debut. Santorum’s speech this afternoon was suffused with other religious imagery, calling Good Friday his family’s “passion play” because of his daughter Bella’s hospit…

Mormons, Jews Reach Accord Over Proxy Baptism

By Joanna Brooks

…. An act that might have seemed to LDS people deep in the heart of the Book-of-Mormon-belt a gesture of respect for Jews was, of course, an outrage to Jewish people who believe that the names of their deceased relatives should not be inscribed in Mormon records, that Jews are acceptable to God just as they are. It used to be that LDS Church officials responded to these expressions of concern by explaining in a well-intentioned but sort of pointy-h…

Thinking Theologically About Wisconsin Union Conflict

By Daniel Schultz

…best for the economy overall is not to have winners and losers, but to build a strong, shared enterprise. It’s not sexy, and it won’t reap huge dividends, but it does have the virtue of stability. That, I think, is the message of the manna and the quail out in the desert. The newly-freed Israelites would love to be as rich as they remember the Egyptians being, but their God calls them to a “just-enough” economy that prevents exploitation. We’ll s…

The Real Reasons Why Evangelical Embrace of Environmentalism Lags

By Sarah Posner

…h the controversy” — even though, just as with evolution, there is absolutely no scientific controversy, but rather agreement. Now that would be a story: evangelical environmentalists going toe-to-toe with the climate change deniers who are out to teach kids that climate change, like evolution or the separation of church and state, is just a myth. …

The “Libertarian Moment” Wouldn’t Exist Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ness. Dating back to conservative Christian red scares, anti-union and anti-New Deal ideology, and to Christian Reconstructionist framing of the proper role of government in relation to the church, the family, and the individual, these principles emerge from the idea that the secular state is the enemy of a proper Christian ordering of markets, social norms, and family and religious life. If you doubt that these dogmas have found common cause, rem…

Rep. Pelosi, Can I Tweet You Some Lewd Photos?

By Sarah Sentilles

…untable for their adulterous behavior, and to be sure, there’s been a never-ending parade of them for us to wag our fingers at—Clinton, Spitzer, Ensign, Pickering, Edwards, Sanford, Schwarzenegger, and now Weiner. I have no doubt there will be more to come (pun intended). We are quite willing to punish people for personal sins, especially when they are sexual in nature, but we seem unwilling to hold anyone accountable for structural, institutional…