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Untethering Conscience From Religion: An Interview with Louisa Thomas

By Jeremy Kessler

…ew there was a richer, more complicated story that needed to be told. The central figure in Conscience is Norman Thomas, my great-grandfather. He is known to posterity—very slightly—as a man who ran for president six times on the socialist ticket between 1928 and 1948, and who inspired a lot of people. But it’s also about his three brothers, Evan Thomas, the conscientious objector my father wrote about, and Ralph and Arthur, who were soldiers. Th…

Bachmann Staffer Likens
Rick Perry to King Saul and Bachmann to anointed
King David

By Warren Throckmorton

…d cover the state. Evangelicals in South Carolina will have a tough choice between Perry, who recently hosted a prayer meeting in Houston where over 30,000 evangelicals attended, and Bachmann, who has made her faith a central part of her campaign. The distinction offered by Waldron is that Perry looks the part of a Old Testament leader but Bachmann has God’s approval, as did King David. In the Old Testament, Saul was the first King of Israel and b…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…at conferences and gatherings. And, as I’ve reported before, the alliance between non-charismatic evangelicals and the neo-Pentecostals dates back to the late 1970s. Bill Bright was one of the pioneers of bringing Pentecostals into the political fold with John Gimenez and the America for Jesus movement. Perry did not invent this. The AFA’s Don Wildmon, who played a big role in The Response, had carried on this tradition through the Arlington Grou…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…indicates that the horror of the “Falling Man” image is that it is perched between the public and private, between individual death and collective imagery. And Susan Sontag, in her remarkable little book Regarding the Pain of Others cast doubt over the reality of “collective memory.” Yet she does come back and suggest there is “collective instruction.” It is not enough to only remember the image, but to encounter the extended story surrounding it….

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis? [Updated]

By Jay Michaelson

…ich the possibility of amending the record, of righting one’s wrongs, is a central theme. But of course, there is no amending the record once Troy Davis is dead. The various hangmen in Georgia have not cited Scripture as justification for killing Troy Davis, who probably did not commit the murder of which he was convicted. But they may as well have. American moral values are largely derived from religious values, and those values come from the Bib…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ng activities; its repeal led to the financial services products that were central to the catastrophic economic collapse of 2008.) Actions with Consequences In the main, the sign listing the Occupy DC goals was heavier on wonkery than anarchism; albeit laden with some highly generalized goals (“foist off the corporate hijacking of society and politics!”). Merritt questioned why religious groups motivated by “social justice,” the term used by progr…

Talking Religion at 30,000 Feet

By Michael J. Altman

…l students every semester, “we bracket our own beliefs and ideas so we can better understand others.” When I tell a stranger that I study religion in America the first question is always “What do you plan to do with that?” But the second question always begins, “so, what do you think about…” What do I think? I bracket what I think. That’s the point. Sometimes I try to bend the question to some neutral space where I can offer a well-informed opinio…

Dr. Kervorkian Dies

By Susan Henking

…nists and others have pushed us to re-examine; a boundary that is likewise central to our debates about the separation of church and state. Whether one agrees with courts that sentenced Kervorkian to prison for murder, or with the laws that required this, much has changed since the Michigan pathologist attached his voice to a social movement. He did not start it, nor will it end with his death. And yet, the death of ‘Dr. Death’ reminds us all of t…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…the most visible example. Do they remember that their parents were little better than “slaves in America”? The disparity between Deuteronomy’s commandments and those that one might extract from their policies could scarcely be more stark. The new right-wing bible reads, “Remember that you were a slave in the land of America, so be sure to extract every dollar from your operations so that you don’t end up as one again.” At a personal level,…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…among these are the continued US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan and the extensive US military campaign in Pakistan that is believed to have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Pakistani civilians in air strikes. Even within the original al Qaeda bin Laden has probably not played a central operational role for many years, though he remained an influential voice and symbol. The organization has cultivated a new set of charismatic leader…