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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…ilt into its DNA an all-consuming survival instinct, an awareness that evolution and entropy also are its enemies as an institution. From this fear, certainly for conservative Catholics, flows a consistently urgent desire to control this flux that is absent from nearly every other (non-Abrahamic) religion in the world. For this reason, the conservative Catholic ontology insists that the authority of the Church and the power of the state to enforce…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…tly emphasizes the sacredness of all life. He maintains that if we care about one death at the hands of a cop, then we have to care just as much about 2,800 deaths occurring each year due to lack of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina. He cautions us to avoid the path of political expediency and to envision and struggle towards the reign of God here on earth. He questions why progressives gave up using the word “welfare” when it’s in the preamble…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…to sea and rescued eight days later by the crew of a pilot boat 18 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Upon his return to what was left of Cheniere Caminada, he discovered that his parents and brother had died along with 800 other residents. Those who survived the flood moved “up the bayou” (as they still say in Lafourche Parish) to towns like Leeville and Golden Meadow. Today, what remains of Cheniere Caminada is a historic marker…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hurches to make a “fundamental examination” of their concept of marriage, but he also reached out to those opposing the change. “There are many who are now disappointed and feel concern. This is understandable. “Their experience will be respected, and the Church will listen to their fears in future, as well as in society as a whole. “I would like to say to them: I don’t think anyone’s marriage will lose importance, the Church’s faith is not under…

The Fire This Time

By Anthea Butler

…ther to write a 800-word piece without crying and wanting to tear my hair out about the pain of my people. I’m not writing prophetic words to you anymore. You fix this shit. I’m done carrying the cross of America, its false promises of democracy and inclusion, the documents that excluded me and called my ancestors three-fifths of a person. You figure it out. I’m about comforting Black people now. We need each other. I can’t help you feel less guil…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ctive, materials “that would resonate in Christian communities,” as Tyler puts it, is essential. But does this risk promoting the notion that Christian nationalists—along with authoritarian Christians in general—aren’t “real” Christians, a framing that I’ve criticized on many occasions as upholding Christian hegemony by implicitly equating “Christian” with “good”? Asked about the relationship between Christianity and Christian nationalism, Tyler i…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…re simply isn’t any central body that could exert control.” Tight-Knit or Mutually Disinterested? Thing started out calmly enough. Nathan Oman, a lawyer who lives in Virginia, started a blog called Times and Seasons with a few friends in 2003. They asked their readers one day for suggestions for a name to call the collection of blogs that had spun from theirs. On March 23, 2004, someone suggested “Bloggernacle,” a riff on the Mormon Tabernacle. Th…

Are School Districts Getting the Message on Government-Sponsored Prayer?

By Lauri Lebo

…to call this a trend. Still, it is interesting that two news stories came out yesterday about school districts ending government-endorsed religious observances because they recognize that they would probably lose a costly First Amendment battle. Could it be that in the wake of the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, in which the Dover school district had to pay $1 million in legal fees for trying to force intelligent design into science class in viola…

The C Word

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, I don’t think I’d pursue a job at a nuclear plant or at a company clear-cutting forests. But, overall, I consider just about any place of employment a great place to be while being a Christian. That said, however, I doubt I could get a job at any of the employers that made the list. You see, I’m not really “their kind” of Christian – because when they say “Christian” – they mean a religious right kind of Christian. Best Christian Workplaces Inst…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…e Church and his views are his own,” one religion faculty member told me. But Professor Bott is no outlier. Especially among older Mormons, racist rationale for the priesthood ban—linking it to Old Testament pretexts, or to moral infirmity in a pre-earthly life by the souls of Africans and African-Americans, and other racist apologetic mental gymnastics exemplified in Bott’s statement to the Post—persist and circulate, generally unquestioned and u…