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Not Breathing Much Easier … But Still Breathing: A Modest Plea For Hope to End 2020

By Peter Laarman

…ercer deliberately polluting the mediasphere and thereby perpetuating what New York Times columnist Charlie Wurzel calls the “eternal culture war doomloop.” I’m aware that this is too much raw Marxism for many RD readers to swallow. I simply counter that Marx was right about many things. We Americans tend to overcompensate for our aversion to the Marxist critique by holding, against all evidence, that culture rot proceeds entirely independently of…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…ny scholars, including myself, have advocated for years. The fact that the news has arrived, front and center in the New Yorker, is overwhelmingly positive. Nevertheless FitzGerald’s opening words, which match the spin of her larger article, provoke me to quibble: “Just four years ago,” she says, “leaders on the religious right were the only white evangelicals whose voices were heard in the public arena.” She goes on to say that this has changed—“…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…reporting domestic abuse “made bad choices.” Trump wrote in 2014 that the Central Park Five—black men falsely convicted of rape as teenagers in 1989 who then won a $41 million settlement from the City of New York—should not be considered innocent because they “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” By his own admission, then, Trump is no different from these men. But he sees little need to repent. In the moral vacuum Christian conservatives ar…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…tic process. When I went into the voting booth as a single-issue voter, I knew my mission was to vote anti-abortion down the ballot—from president to school board. This meant I didn’t have to engage with any of the other issues facing my country and my community during any given election. I could shut my brain off and go to sleep at night without worrying about immigration policies, funding for child cares, or new initiatives for stem cell researc…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…tly, fifty years. Nixon is long dead, as is Kennedy. “Negroes” have become African Americans. Radcliffe no longer produces graduates, and it is not quite so newsworthy when students of color graduate from the Ivy League. We remain unsure whether parents can (or should) choose their baby’s sex (even though we also know they do). And we continue to care about Philadelphia’s Barnes Collection. But we know so much more. Fifty years have passed. Women’…

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Connell calling a floor vote on a bill that would make illegal many of the central tenets of Donald Trump’s operating procedure seems low. If the Equality Act were in force, plainly transphobic policies like the Administration’s newly announced ban on transgender people serving in the military would be even more difficult to justify legally than they already are. While it’s certainly no bandage for deeply engrained systemic injustice, The Equality…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…sequences of that are. The degree to which anti-Islamic discourse is now a central part of national political discourse is astonishingly worrisome. I think it’s actually to the vast credit of this country, that despite having now endured almost two decades of continuous armed conflict with Islamist states and groups, there’s been so little violence against Muslims in this country. But when you weaponize words in this way, and you legitimate that i…

I Agree With Douthat, Church Can’t Accept Gay Marriage

By Patricia Miller

…mittee for Religious Liberty for another three-year term when they meet in New Orleans later this week for their semi-annual general assembly. The Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty has been the USCCB’s main vehicle for opposing same-sex marriage and the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Whether or not the bishops renew the conference’s mandate will say a lot about its political direction. Will it hear the message of Pope Franc…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…sort of radicalism is widely seen as justified on the Right and within the Republican Party.” Indeed, while a recent article in the New York Times claims that “neither Ms. Greene nor Mr. Gosar is a party leader,” this is true only in the most technical sense of the term—as demonstrated by the toothless response of major GOP figures. And while Rogers may present herself differently than other Republicans, who go for a more “respectable” brand, ideo…

A Theology Lived: Loss of HIV/AIDS Advocate Sister Paula Brettkelly

By Ariana Childs Graham

…selves against discrimination, she vigorously advocated for the passage of New Zealand’s Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986, which decriminalized consensual same-sex sexual activity for men. She then advocated for the passage of New Zealand’s Human Rights Act of 1993, which extended legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation. While I am inspired by the fruits of Sister Bretkelly’s hard work, her ability to organize and coor…