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I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’

By Chrissy Stroop

…hts.” Instead of praising Graham to the skies for integrating some of his crusades in the South, you note that he also held segregated crusades even after his first integrated crusade. You also point out that he had no qualms about joining First Baptist – Dallas, the megachurch now headed by staunch Trump loyalist Robert Jeffress, when it was pastored by the segregationist W. A. Criswell. Further, instead of whitewashing Graham’s association with…

Bloomberg is Right to Say No to Muslim School Holidays

By Hussein Rashid

Recently, the New York City Council voted to recognize two Muslim holidays, Id al-Fitr and Id al-Adha, as school holidays. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is threatening to veto the motion. He argues that the school year is too short already, and the one Council Member who voted against it sees it as a slippery slope to excessive holidays for every religious group. Although there are those who see this as a divide-and-conquer tactic, with Mayor Bloomberg…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…tor against the populace is not the best role for an elected leader. Jerusalem’s problem is also Jerusalem’s opportunity. It can have a role to play in this transition that may impact what most hope will be a democratic Egypt, and the Arab street is watching closely. Israel’s problem, even according to some of its supporters, is that it has never had a long-term plan in regard to the Palestinians, leading to actions that are largely reactive a…

Google Data Reveal Poor Have An Interest Above “Dark” Religion

By Peter Laarman

…n we allow here that mere raw data aren’t enough? Some context on the real lives of the 21st-century Joads would be a lot more illuminating than raised eyebrows about the scary religious beliefs of the struggling. Those who inhale the Leonhardt dispatch without said context might even suppose that “primitive” religion functions as a predictor of economic failure. Would they say that about the second-generation Puritans, still the possessors of the…

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Marriage-Refusing Clerk Kim Davis Joins Liberty Counsel’s Anti-Marriage Crusade We reported last week on U.S.-based conservative Christian groups supporting Romania’s “illiberal” move to put a ban on same-sex couples marrying into the country’s Constitution. More details have emerged, including the fact that anti-LGBT legal group Liberty Counsel took county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to allow couples to marry after the U.S. Supreme Court rulin…

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By Sarah Posner

…he influence of Mormonism on the movement, or the role of Christian Reconstructionism in tea party politics. Over the past year or more, sources have described to me coalition-building between tea party groups and religious right groups, and the shared essential belief that the country’s founding documents declare God-given individual rights — ones that protect, conservatives say, both people from government “tyranny” and fetuses from abortion. I’…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…I can’t imagine what. Arguments about evolution reappear like clockwork at times of national uncertainty, times at which Americans are questioning not just the origins of life, but its direction. As Karl Giberson, longtime advocate of peace between Darwin’s proponents and detractors, suggests in his forthcoming book, ”Saving Darwin” (HarperCollins, 2008), “the debate about evolution is not about evolution at all.” Could it be that Darwin is so oft…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…for the Nation, whose people have borne more than their fair share of bad times. First Katrina, then Rita, then Ivan tore apart their homes and buildings. Each time, they came back and rebuilt. But now the Deepwater Horizon oil-well disaster may tear apart their livelihoods, and with it, their way of life. This realization and a desire for a respite to their worries is what brought them all together Saturday. So after the ceremony, they just want…

How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream

By Katherine Kelaidis

…t a key factor in that rightward shift. The rightward movement of American politics up to and including the election of Donald Trump has been driven by a specific demographic, a demographic defined by religious and racial identity: namely, white evangelical Protestants. Few demographics poll more consistently conservative on a variety of issues from abortion to immigration. None is a more loyal or reliable source of Republican support. The latest…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…r, a divinity student at Regent, told Vegh. “Your faith should direct your politics, not your politics directing your faith.” What an idea! And from South Bend, Indiana, some equally unexpected news. The University of Notre Dame recently announced that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address this May, and will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. Unsurprisingly, the announcement was greeted with protests from conserva…