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Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…imilarly critical of Clinton. It is earthly power itself that’s seen as corrupt; Trump just offers a spectacularly rich example to pair with scriptural critiques. So is this Christian thought? Is this religion? Decades ago, at the peak of the move to stigmatize contemporary religious claims under the derogatory label of “cult,” scholars spoke of the so-called “cultic milieu,” understood as a kind of shadowy underworld of kooky theories, conspiracy…

A Divided Pro-Life Movement

By Julie Ingersoll

…nuclear weapons and often even nuclear power. Several factors in American politics have kept this division hidden (the extremes tend to get the attention, media people and academics often don’t know enough about anti-abortion politics to see the cleavages etc.) but the “seamless garment” or “whole life ethic” opposition to abortion has been a part of the pro-life movement since its beginning. These pro-lifers argue that there could be far fewer a…

Brits Get A Dose of Christian Nation Politicking

By Sarah Posner

…ith can play in helping people to have a moral code.” That accusation is abruptly followed by the disclaimer that “[o]f course, faith is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality.” Cameron also lays bare his quintessentially 21st century religiosity, proclaiming that “I am a member of the Church of England, and, I suspect, a rather classic one: not that regular in attendance, and a bit vague on some of the more difficult parts of the faith.” I…

In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…y years. Black people and their allies are too consumed with dismantling structural racism. Black people are largely held back not by structural racism but by cultural pathology (i.e., by their own inability to pull themselves up by their bootstraps). The goal of Black people should be the development of an individualist ethos that accepts the constraints of structural racism that can be overcome on a person-by-person basis through rededication to…

Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…tify with this criticism.” “I’m happy,” she said, to have “support in my struggle for what I see as the Israel that I want to live in and I want to reconstruct as a democratic state that is the homeland of the Jewish people but allows all of its citizens to live peacefully together with equal rights.” While a certain conventional wisdom has taken root in some circles that the Israeli public has moved inexorably to the right, Michaeli rejected the…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…a right-wing political agenda. “Conspiracy theories are the one constant thread that runs through the backgrounds of every right-wing domestic terrorist of the past half-century,” he writes. Why do so many of the nuts roll to the right? Money is a big part of the story. You can’t understand why Cleta Mitchell is such a vector for election fraud nonsense if you don’t take into account who is paying her. In fact, Mitchell is riding a wave of cash fr…

Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s

By Christopher Douglas

…, but for all inhabitants in the nation. But its method was to work within politics, to return to politics after a mid-century hiatus. In the decades following its emergence, however, the Christian-Right-animated Republican Party has become increasingly authoritarian in its views and methods, violating in particular the democratic norms and the civic culture of Congress. In the aftermath of the 2000 election, the GOP argued to stop recounting vote…

‘It’s a Gay Problem,’ and Other Myths From the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis

By Joelle Casteix

…ican II and their stories are similar. The cover-up has nothing to do with politics. It’s about saving face, protecting priestly friends, and saving the Church from scandal. The political leanings of the pope or the predator have nothing to do with it. As John Gehring recently noted on Religion and Politics, “a top official from the Vatican’s secretary of state office acknowledged receiving allegations about [former Archbishop] McCarrick’s behavio…

An Interview from Tahrir Square

By Waleed Naif

…demonstrators. How would you present this revolt or uprising to American readers? First, I would like to stress that it’s a revolution, not just an uprising. I would also like to emphasize that politics in Egypt is no longer the simple binary of Government versus Muslim Brotherhood, but that there is a third way reflecting new currents in society that want to see a democratic and developed Egypt that finds its place in the global community. A fe…

How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter

By Beatrice Marovich

…masks early in the pandemic facing ridicule from politicians like Donald Trump. Many White Americans like Trump were not convinced that the pandemic, or the risk of death that it carried, was a real threat. Baldwin’s words speak to us about both of these forms of denial. But Baldwin’s words are also reminiscent of a more ancient history of death denial in Christian theology. It’s long been the case that many Christians claim death as something me…