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Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…mmunity, and anti-racism efforts” as measures to protect children. Patriot Mobile spokeswoman Leigh Wambsganss told the crowd, “Our children belong to the Lord, not the government . . . This is not a political war, it is a spiritual war.” The summit, Brockschmidt observed, pulsed with a “religious character,” employing spiritual warfare imagery to promote the group’s agenda. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moms for Liberty as an “anti-g…

Sister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf

By Shabana Mir

…nt over from Cambridge University, so that the young daughters of upwardly-mobile and wealthy families could obtain British credentials. But for now, I was preoccupied with other things. I was always a rather thoughtful child, inclined to moral and spiritual reflection. And in my early teens, an urge to seek a deeper spiritual life welled up inside me. It was not something I understood terribly well. The milieu was Pakistan in the 1980s, mildly mu…

Updated: Response to the New York Times on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…o be clear, Sen. Obama is not Muslim. He never was a Muslim. It is this that makes him an asset to building bridges with the Muslim-majority world. He is also an American who represents what America is now: multiracial, multiethnic, mobile, educated, and family-centered. All of this is what makes him an asset in letting America be America again. [UPDATED: For more on the legal issues involved from Islamic perspectives on apostasy, see Juan Cole an…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…oke in tongues. A woman wearing a fatigue green “M.A.S.H.” t-shirt (that’s Mobile Army Spiritual Hospital) prostrated herself on the floor. “Like all of you, I love this country this deeply,” intoned the governor who once publicly mused about his state seceding. “Indeed the only thing you love more,” he added, as the audience held its collective breath, praying he wouldn’t say something that fell short of expectations, “is the living Christ.” A co…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…ournalist Al Giordano of get out the vote efforts in southern Alabama: The Mobile NAACP crunched the numbers and showed local pastoral leadership that whatever they had done in recent years to turn out voters wasn’t working. The pastors then pushed for and got resources to do congregation-wide robo calls and voter reg tables at church events. There are legitimate concerns about churches getting involved this closely with a political campaign, whet…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…event. Or, as my mother once said with a laugh when I was off to speak in Mobile, Alabama: “It’s kind of hip to be a gay atheist [in Cambridge, Massachussetts]. Not so much most everywhere else.” I was scheduled to speak in an extended dialogue with the evangelical Christian presenter—as an atheist who is also a former evangelical Christian. Additionally, I was to engage other panelists and audience members, most of whom would be religious. As a…

Egypt Protests Upset Assumptions About the
Arab World

By Sarah Eltantawi

…North Africa” than a “demographic and cultural island” enjoying “upwardly mobile European aspirations.” He asserts that Tunisia’s cultural superiority is established by its desire to be European. The lesson: Tunisia revolted because they are culturally superior aspiring Europeans while states to the east have no such capacity. The reality in Egypt belies such simple analysis. For years we have endured the notion that ‘the Arab street’ alternates…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ducated people in the history of the western world. Drawn from an upwardly mobile yeoman class, and populated by ministers, scholars, and merchants, they were some of the most unlikely candidates to forge a new civilization in the frontier wilderness. Yet their propensity to interpretive obsession led them to be their own first chroniclers, none more so than Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation. Initially the symbolic import of their American lo…

God’s Chosen Tweeters?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s churches, religious, and other spiritual groups, where internet and smartphone users are 15% more likely to be active than non-users. From photos of your last Habitat for Humanity project, to tweets that you’re powering off for the Sabbath, to prayers for sick friends and uninspired sermon-writers, social networking sites have become the connective membranes of contemporary social and spiritual experience alike. Data from Pew and other research…

The Leadership Crisis at the End of the Megachurch Era

By Benjamin Dueholm

…eals, the entrepreneur makes. He innovates platforms, methods, models, and mobile apps. Where the guru introduces you to the power latent within you to lose weight—a power known to Socrates and the Berber herdsmen alike but long obscured to us—the entrepreneur invents a dietary or pharmacological regimen. In order to solve new or stubborn problems, it may be necessary for her to disrupt old patterns and old technologies. The entrepreneur’s world i…