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Pennsylvania School Voucher Plan Would Allow Religious Discrimination

By Lauri Lebo

…would be private and religious schools that may legally discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation or disability. Corbett has been heavily lobbied from none other than FreedomWorks Founder Dick Armey, who has been meeting with Pennsylvania lawmakers urging them to support the bill, as well as the DeVos family, one of the largest contributors to national conservative and religious-right groups. Betsy DeVos is chairm…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…and policy organizations. Natural law has always been hiding in plain sight. Rusty Reno, the editor of First Things magazine, said as much when he half-facetiously wrote the following, in response to my 2021 New Republic article on originalism and natural law: [Schwartz] singles out First Things (“the most intellectually serious and influential journal of the religious right”) as particularly nefarious, leading the way toward (this will shock read…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…e to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accommodations—in the back of the airplane. I…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…ar indoor training apps until recently went by the enticing name, “SufferFest.” The accepted wisdom is simple: Victory often goes to the competitors who have befriended suffering, those who can keep the cranks turning even when their quadriceps burn and their lungs feel as if they’re about to explode. At the elite level of sports, where everyone has talent, the winning edge is often the willingness to endure to the far edge of tolerable pain—becau…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…ings are no guarantee against atrocity and, in the context of the Third Reich, actually came to justify the Holocaust.…

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…and Pam Olsen, the “prayer lady” and founder of the Florida Prayer Network. Stemberger recently endorsed Perry. In 2008, Stemberger (who this year said Mitt Romney wasn’t Mormon enough for him to support) endorsed Mike Huckabee. Stemberger, a lawyer, led the effort to get a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage (which was already banned by statute) on the ballot that same year. He helped organize the “Rediscovering God in America” Pastors…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…t money per se, but the love of money that stands between wealth and heaven. Still, the fact of the text remains; and it sounds a whole lot more like James Cone than Glenn Beck. Beck then goes on to ridicule Cone’s identification of Jesus on the cross with lynching victims, claiming that Jesus “wasn’t a victim, he was a conqueror.” There is some truth to that. If the message of the cross spoke only to victimhood, who would listen? However, here ag…

Pennsylvania Anti-Immigration Law Unconstitutional

By Lauri Lebo

…ration law HB 1070] cares about Hazleton,” Pochoda said. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled unanimously against a Hazleton, Pa. law that would have punished landlords and employers accused of renting to or hiring anyone the city considered an “illegal alien.” In the decision, Judge Theodore McKee wrote: If Hazleton’s ordinance is permitted, then each and every state and locality would be free to implement similar sc…

How the Religious (and ‘Nones’) Vote May Tip 6 Swing States

By Daniel Schultz

…there’s a lot of voters like this in Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest. In short, southern white evangelicals and northern Catholics and mainliners made it possible for Trump to swing Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania just enough to take the election in 2016. Meanwhile, Trump falters in the Northeast and West, which are more secular, but also have more adherents of smaller religions: Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists. The first part of t…

When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…eam? To answer these preliminary questions will require some basic research.. Commissioned apostles Like leaders in traditional denominations, many important apostles were not among the much better known founders, and were commissioned much later. So a reporter looking at early lists of NAR apostles (which used to be openly published) may not find the newer apostles in this way, though these leaders are nevertheless shaping contemporary religion a…