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America’s ‘Jesus Problem’ is Making Progressive Christians Complicit in Christian Supremacy

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…onvergence of white evangelical Christianity, right-wing nationalism, and Trumpism as it morphed into a virulent form white Christian nationalism. These books offer critiques of the roots of this religious phenomenon as it came into full bloom during the 2016 presidential election and subsequent Trump presidency. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Robert P. Jones Simon & Schuster 2020 White Evangelical Racism: T…

Billy Graham Regrets Political Involvement, Again

By Randall Balmer

…ssociates, playing to the press, later simulated the prayer they had with Truman on the White House lawn. When the photograph hit the newspapers the following day, the president was not amused. Graham fared better with Truman’s successor, Dwight Eisenhower, offering political advice and volunteering to undertake diplomatic missions in the course of his evangelistic travels. But Graham’s most notorious entanglement was with Eisenhower’s vice presid…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…joint sessions of Congress. But individualized heckling, not so much. The rules of ritual don’t need logical consistency to be powerful or sacred; they need only to be generally recognized as how things must be done. To break the rules in such a moment does not simply signify bad manners—Americans are used to that. Instead, it jars us viscerally because, however unconsciously, it seems like a profanation. Nancy Pelosi wasn’t calculating that look…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…e tea party movement is—Dick Armey’s astroturf to kill health care reform, Rupert Murdoch’s marketing plan to boost Glenn Beck’s ratings, a grassroots outlet for right-wing rage and paranoia—the Values Voter Summit made clear the religious right is hitching its wagon to that horse. Sharing a common enemy (Obama, the Democratic Party, liberalism writ large), different participants wrap their rhetoric in red, white, and blue, whether the endgame is…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…nning institutions, clinics, social services and the like, preaching and spreading its idea of Islam, without getting too tangled up in politics. At the same time, the political leader who comes to power in Egypt will likely be personally religious, proud to identify as an Egyptian, an Arab, and a Muslim. Because Egypt never went through the radical secularization that Turkey went through from the 1920s onward, it is unlikely Egypt will ever becom…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…on. The media too has generated no shortage of breathless but virtually news-less profiles about candidate Huntsman. A refreshingly sober and penetrating take comes from the New York Times’ Matt Bai, who observes that Huntsman has already encountered trouble on the campaign trail connecting with voters, leaving them “disappointed” by his “lack of any evident vision.” The perception that Huntsman lacks a clear vision is not helped along by video…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…ve ones are wrong. If user reviews are any indication, Atheos has been instructive to several non-believers who sought structure and resources for their conversations. Atheist blogger Courtney Heard wrote a glowing review on her site, Godless Mom, where she described what a great learning experience the app was. “It’s not just taking me through common conversations that I get frustrated with frequently, but it’s also proving, with each step furthe…

As a Muslim, I am Exhausted…

By Nabil Echchaibi

…anguished struggle for identity through rich plots of sexual and cultural politics. They are not perfect by any means and readers relate to them because of the honesty of their frailty. Many Muslims writers, filmmakers, musicians do this, but their work is often obscured by this orthodoxy of perfection and an intolerable public opinion which is largely uninterested in nuanced portraits of Muslim lives. You see, the story of Muslims does not have…

Jesus Comes Out for Christmas

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…anything controversial. The fact is, Jesus did confront his culture with truth—and he ended up being crucified because of it.” Actually, Jeffress is mostly right. If you don’t want a wimpy Jesus, then this rainbow-haloed baby Jesus is the one you want. A butch Jesus. You see, once this baby grew up, he did the one thing that every gay and lesbian person knows requires all the courage in the world—he came out. If you read the gospels you see Jesus…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…to continue to support LGBT human rights around the world. Unfortunately, Trump’s cabinet choices include a number of stridently anti-gay figures, and his rumored pick of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State is sounding alarm for Tillerson’s close ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as well as the company’s historically poor track record on LGBT issues. C-Fam, the US based organization that is helping to lead an anti-LGBT backlash at th…