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Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…like Obama who likes gay people. They mean, as Graham said to Christianity Today yesterday, “a true follower of Jesus Christ and not just by name,” someone who will “obey” and not, say, support LGBT rights. Someone like Mike Huckabee, who “no question this man is saved.” Count the ways in which Obama is untrustworthy, for his opponents, exemplifying the opposite of “biblical truth”: he spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, a Muslim country; hi…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…ymbol of anti-Semitism and white supremacy, no matter where you are in the world today). Unlike these symbols that are based in reality, however, a thoughtful investigation into the “black mass” would have revealed that this is actually a symbol in search of a reality. Boston University professor David Frankfurter, in his award-winning 2006 book Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History, argues that, when we apply t…

Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…e I met who dismissed my work as a book on “freaks.” Ideally, I would like readers who dismiss this community to stop laughing, and readers who fear this community to perhaps smile. What alternative title would you give the book? So many books have been written about vampires that almost every clever title has been taken. Our Vampires, Ourselves was taken. So were Something in the Blood and American Vampires. I had originally wanted to call it, “V…

The Santorum Legacy: The Fertility Wars

By Sarah Posner

…oliticians with national aspirations dare to use. “We were winning in a very different way, we were winning hearts, we were raising issues that other people didn’t want to raise,” Santorum said today. Many of his fellow Republicans probably didn’t want him to raise them, and now they’re stuck with them, even with Santorum gone….

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…uding people of various races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and world-views. Refugees and immigrants compose roughly one-third of the congregation. The church is heavily invested in a wide array of social ministries in the Commonwealth, the U.S., and the world. Below are excerpts from a conversation with the young, intelligent, and energetic pastor Jason Crosby. What was the process like that led Crescent Hill to adopt an unequivocal co…

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

By Ed Simon

…n, a false prophet and anti-Christ sitting on the throne of St. Peter. Yet today school kids, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, dress up in black construction-paper hats with fake buckles on their shoes and share plastic Thanksgiving feasts with equivalently accurate “Indians.” It is simply a sacrament in our national religion of Americanism, in spite of who the actual pilgrims may have been. But if the idea of America is a religion of sorts, it em…

Eyes on the Prize, Rainbow People! A Post-DOMA Challenge

By Peter Laarman

…ommunity and those in solidarity with the still-unfinished Black freedom struggle would feel under the weight of two body blows in a single week. In her powerful dissent on the Voting Rights case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited Dr. King on the “arc of the moral universe,” adding that it only bends toward justice through steadfast commitment—and that that commitment had been “disserved” by the Court majority. Many Black writers have been quoting…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…nged. I never heard of this Dearborn Awakening event that happened until I read your piece today, but I want to offer an apology for this speaker that lied and confused people. I offer this as a Christian and student of the Word that is called by God to obey and not simply know Scripture. As we seek to understand, to relate, to pursue friendship with those who are different things can change. I’m trying to do my part of that here in Eastern Washin…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…o understand the different conceptions of religious freedom at play in the world today, their different social and political contexts, and their varied histories. Neither my work nor our project takes a position for or against religious freedom. To assume that it does is a misunderstanding of what is in fact a much broader and more encompassing set of research aims and objectives. We are interested in laying out the kind of work advocacy for relig…