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Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…logy of stability or fidelity to the past. I wonder if this isn’t a real misconception, because it’s often unclear to me what exactly is being conserved. Having completed this book, do you see the movement “standing athwart history yelling stop,” in William F. Buckley’s phrase, or is it just progressive in a different sense? Much of my book can be read as a history of conservatives debating about the meaning of conservatism. Some, like Russell Kir…

How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…after Jordan’s death. The film documents her friendship with the Rev. Rob Schenck, the religious right activist who has taken on a solitary battle to persuade his fellow white evangelicals that the Second Amendment isn’t scripture, that guns are not holy, and that the Bible doesn’t sanction arming yourself against your fellow citizens. The film’s chronicle of McBath’s devastating loss and her newfound friendship with Schenck is moving, particular…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…9-year-old teacher Irma Casler was shot and killed in her classroom at Rentschler school in Lodi Township, Michigan by Robert Warner, apparently because she had rejected his advances. • April 2, 1921, Syracuse, New York. Professor Holmes Beckwith shot and killed dean J. Herman Wharton in his office at Syracuse University before committing suicide. • May 18, 1927, Bath, Michigan. School treasurer Andrew Kehoe, after killing his wife and destroying…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…s was a time period when Harvey Cox wrote The Secular City and there was discussion in theological circles about the post-Christian world… the whole “God is Dead” movement. Turned out that rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated and then you have the emergence of the Christian Right in America within about ten years or so of Rosemary’s Baby coming out. The God is Dead movement was completely premature. God didn’t go anywhere. God was just tak…

Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…urch in Columbia, walked into a study session at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. After sitting for an hour he shot nearly everybody at the meeting. That was an act of terror. He was not a Muslim. As far as we know he was acting alone, like the Tsarnaev brothers, though both were undoubtedly influenced by organized groups through social media and other electronic sources. Was Christianity the motivation for Roof’s brutal violence? One could m…

Introducing ‘It’s Your Fault,’ a Series on Blame

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…owerful, conscious agents (gods, demons, the corporate elite) or from unconscious forces like bad luck or random chance? Science and technology have proliferated new routes for both explaining and enacting blame. Nutrition science diagnoses all sorts of modern ills; sociological and economic analysis can map those deep forces of which riots are merely a symptom; alongside its famed “genius” grants, the MacArthur Foundation backs efforts to reform…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…unding gender and sexuality, increasing religious diversity, and declining numbers of Christians—are disrupting the religious landscape and leading to a sense of angst among American Christians that their country is turning its back on what they believe to be its Christian heritage. Accordingly, Christian nationalist rhetoric is deeply cloaked in threat narratives, prompting efforts to retain Christianity’s hegemonic status, sometimes through viol…

Bree Newsome and the True Meaning of Civil Disobedience

By Sarah Posner

…r Marriage yesterday, cited King’s Letter from A Birmingham Jail and its discussion of “the moral importance of disobeying unjust laws, which we submit applies equally to unjust Supreme Court decisions.” (Does it occur to NOM that it is more like opponents of Brown v. Board of Education than like King, in opposing a Supreme Court decision protecting the rights of fellow citizens?) But the NOM statement compares yesterday’s “immoral and unjust ruli…

Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…eate jobs by drilling for offshore natural gas and modernizing the Port of Charleston for when the Panama Canal is expanded. But justice? Totally absent. The audience didn’t care about Gingrich’s “solutions.” The first question out of the box came from a gentleman who wanted to know, quite simply (to paraphrase), what in the hell was Gingrich thinking when he said that kids should work as janitors? The questions didn’t let up: will you retract you…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…mottos and motivations at the end of the debate, Buttigieg, before quoting scripture, went out of his way to assert that he would never try to force his views on anyone else. Using I-statements rather than prescriptive or collective language, Buttigieg explained that he strives to live by the Golden Rule and the notion that “if you would be a leader, you must first be a servant,” a reference to Matthew 20:26. Similarly, Warren claimed that her per…