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Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…ng their music and liturgy with them to Rome. I’m not sure what we can offer disaffected Roman Catholics—except for the honesty and the integrity of facing difficult issues and asking vexing questions, such as sexual identity in relation to the New Testament mandate of love. Not everyone will agree with the answers we choose, but I’m proud to be associated with a Church willing to address those questions. And for anyone ready to swim the Tiber in…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…evangelicalism is not simply a mental exercise. For many like me, it’s to feel a void opening, the earth dropping out from beneath you. It’s to face the prospect of invalidating your entire existence. So know this when you talk to an evangelical: in attempting to persuade them to your point of view—even on a topic that seems minor to you—you’re not asking for them to change their mind, you’re asking them to punch a hole in the fabric of their rea…

How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…ts outside of New York City, Rascoff’s op-ed is timely. But it is tackling complicated questions, for which it isn’t easy to find answers. On what basis do we determine how to engage Muslims, if we are engaging them as Muslims? How do we possibly avoid religion, when we are identifying them (us) by religion? In fairness, Rascoff’s op-ed only skims the surface of his research; look to his Stanford Law Review article, “Establishing Official Islam: T…

A Good and/or Bad Friday

By Mary Valle

…ated the phrase “mystery of faith” because I thought it was used as a catch-all non-explanation for logical questions, but now I think I understand it in its pure form. Everything in this world is a mystery, including diseases that appear seemingly at random and have no cure. My habit of thinking, reading and writing about that mystery? That might also be called faith. By the way, I was wrong about the chemo and the ivy and kissing the cold feet o…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…h prize—was The Widow’s Might, a 101-minute film written and directed by 19-year-old John Moore of Kaufman, Texas, with David Heustis and Jeff Moreland serving as producers. The film is “a feature length comedy-adventure that tells the fictional story of how aspiring filmmakers came to the aid of an elderly widow who faced losing her home due to rising property taxes.” According to a Festival Press Release, Fireproof, a film starring Kirk Cameron…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…is [underground Christian resistance leader] Rayford Steele, armed with a high-tech handgun. He prays for God’s guidance, and finds himself firing what appears to be a fatal shot at Carpathia. Intentionally or not, this is an eerie rewrite of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination at a Tel Aviv peace rally in 1995—but the authors are on the side of the fanatic killer. These types of conspiracy theories swirl through the Tea Party mo…

Book of Mormon Musical Creators Do Owe Mormonism a Big Thank You

By Joanna Brooks

…described “I Believe” (and the musical in general) as capitalizing on “out-of-context fragments of doctrine” that when taken in isolation offer an “inaccurate” depiction of Mormonism. That assessment is largely correct. As someone who watches media depictions of Mormonism quite closely, I’ve noticed that it’s these idiosyncratic fragments that media figures from evangelical Christian publisher Warren Smith to television personality Bill Maher con…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…o there? You had pointed out the novelty piece, the idea that this is brand*]}*-new, and of course we know new religious movements are never wholly new. Everything builds on something else. But the idea that it, specifically Q, doesn’t fit into a really clear broad political trajectory for the last 40 years is either willfully ignorant, or just damagingly naive about the role that politics has been playing in the United States for at least the last 40…

Why Trumpvangelicals Don’t Need Ted Cruz: Conservative Christianity’s Authoritarian Streak

By Chrissy Stroop

…of evangelical authoritarianism, as of authoritarianism in general, is anti-intellectualism. When I was in high school, a pastor I talked with about my doubts suggested that if I was having difficulty reconciling the apparent contradictions in the Bible, I must be harboring sin in my life. I might be, he said, under the influence of literal demons. Too much intellectual questioning can be deflected with scriptural passages such as I Corinthians 1:…

Joe Lieberman: Romney Surrogate?

By Joanna Brooks

…sort of high road non-response to the button-pushing we saw last week from high-profile writers Christopher Hitchens and Maureen Dowd, who turned her New York Times column over to Bill Maher, perhaps the most visceral opponent of religion (and especially Mormonism) in the American media today. All of this presages a year ahead in which there will be two parallel channels of national conversation about Mormonism: one will swerve from particulars an…