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An Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Feminist and Abolitionist Founder Who Has Slipped into a Memory Hole

By Andrew L. Seidel

…an values.” She pauses and adds, “[he was a] beautiful man who changed the world.” So why don’t we remember him today? How could we forget such a man? The answer is, we haven’t. We’ve erased him. Paine died in 1809 as he arrived on our shores in 1774: penniless and nearly friendless. Unlike every other Founder, we don’t even know where his remains are, as they were stolen. And so was his legacy. Paine was not forgotten, but wiped away. Erased. Pai…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…’60s” To look for some plausible explanatory answers, I would turn to the truest spokesman for today’s brand of conservatism: Irving Kristol. In the footsteps of Durkheim, Kristol expressed fear that the mob would run wild if not reined in by an internalized respect for the group, its leaders, and its traditional notions of moral purity. Why did Kristol feel so afraid? He offered plenty of intellectual answers, all revolving around the idea that e…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…] NOTES: * Billy James Hargis, “Operation: Campus Awakening,” Christian Crusade fundraising letter, February 15, 1967. Spencer Library, University of Kansas, Wilcox Collection. **Billy James Hargis, Communist America . . . Must It Be? (Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade, 1960), 97. See also issues of the Christian Crusade magazine from the early 1960s, and Hargis, Facts about Communism and Our Churches (Tulsa, OK: Christian Crusade, 1962). Jeff Woods,…

Hacking the Vatican

By Joseph Laycock

…ous institutions, particularly organizations that feature a hierarchical structure or esoteric teachings. Today’s cyber attack confirmed these predictions. As an acephalous group with no organizational structure, Anonymous is exactly the sort of movement than benefits from this leveling effect. In addition to the Westboro Baptist Church, which has gone to unprecedented lengths to upset and alienate others, the chief targets of Anonymous have been…

What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

By Eric C. Miller

…t terms are the assertion of control over women’s bodies. Though our jurisprudence is today unlikely to cite men’s divine responsibility as head of the household, much of our political-religious discourse continues to take gender “complementarity” for granted. This is not to suggest, of course, that all traditional thinking about marriage and gender leads to domestic abuse, just that it creates the conditions that make it more likely. And perhaps…

They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

By Kaya Oakes

…. From 1998 to 2004, that percentage held steady at around 14 percent, but today, 25 percent of Americans “claim no formal religious identity.” This percentage continues to primarily consist of adults under the age of 50. The survey also makes it clear that this decline began among those who were young adults in the ’90s, and has only sped up today. That percentage means there are more Americans who are unaffiliated with religion than there are pr…

Religion and Science: Toward a Postmodern Truce

By Philip Clayton

…ure) “People of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hard-won human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.” –Christopher Hitchens A friend quipped recently that the two topics a liberal and a conservative should never discuss together are abortion and health care reform. She should have added the topics of science and religion to her list. Why do attempts at…

Dear Common Grounders, Religious Progressives, and Ecumenical Seminaries…

By The Editors

…l scholarship, a yet more widespread commentary on the tendency of many of today’s evangelical leaders to focus on tiny segments of scripture—this might be a valuable service. And might it cement an accommodation not with the evangelicals, but with secular intellectuals? That might be a good thing. The salient solidarity today may not be with the community of faith but among those who accept Enlightenment-generated standards for cognitive plausibi…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at the ancient issues of food and Sabbath are analogous to today’s moral struggle over the rightful place of LGBT people in both church and society. As a pastor in a conservative denomination, Wilson’s journey from a “consensus” approach to full acceptance for LGBT people has not been easy. But just as a lot was at stake in Paul’s era, so too in today’s culture wars. The answer Wilson offers is the same one Paul offered those in Rome: stop judging…

Pope Francis Brokers End to Cuba Embargo, Despite Opposition of Catholic Pols

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…by a thirty-minute charter flight from Miami, yet never reach it at all.” Today, Cuba is more in our reach. As a Cuban-American from Miami I have been raised amidst the existential crisis of the Cuban exile community, a community with a rabid anger towards the Castro regime and simultaneous love and compassion for their fellow Cubans on the island. I, like many children of exiles, was raised holding my breath for the death of Fidel Castro, for an…