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Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…le, yesterday, just one day after the shooting in Uvalde, The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd, an alum of the evangelical Baylor University, published an article titled “Tragedies Like The Texas Shooting Make A Somber Case For Homeschooling.” She argues that “to protect the most precious, innocent lives among us, parents must educate their kids at home,” adding that “families can’t trust government schools… to bring their children or teachers home safely…

Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

…similar to the way that George W. Bush (quite appropriately) apologized to Jordan’s King Abdullah at a Rose Garden press conference back in May of 2004: “I told him I was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families,“ Bush said. Dan Nejfelt, Senior Communications Associate for Faith in Public Life, who urges citizens of all political stripes to sign Faithful America’s petition calling for…

Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Avatar and the Myth of Originality

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…myths are “mashups,” achieving their goals through the same processes that promoted the iPod to ubiquity: rip. mix. burn. All great artworks, all lasting mythologies, even new technologies, operate in the same way: there is nothing new under the sun. Meanwhile, it is up to the viewers to respond, to make meaning out of a mashup. The process of reappropriation does not make any of it lesser art; for it is precisely the mixing and merging of influe…

New Egyptian Appointee Vows to Prevent Sunnis from Falling into ‘Shi‘i Trap’

By Christopher Anzalone

…tocratic Sunni heads of state, such as Hosni Mubarak, King ‘Abdullah II of Jordan, and King ‘Abdullah I of Saudi Arabia, fear the increased popularity of Twelver Shi‘ism, which they connect with the regional influence of Iran, which is ruled by a Twelver Islamist government. Limited “conversions” of Sunni Syrians and Palestinians following the Summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah—the Lebanese Shi‘i political party and paramilitary organiza…

Tax Cuts for the Super Rich Aren’t Biblical

By Daniel Schultz

Jordan Sekulow’s Washington Post On Faith column arguing that tax cuts for the wealthy are the biblical thing to do gets the Bible all wrong. If Sekulow took a look in the Bible, he would see plainly that Jesus endorses the payment of taxes as the price of participation in the economy. You use Caesar’s money, you pay Caesar’s taxes. You use US government-issued greenbacks, you pay the US taxes. Were Sekulow to open the Bible, he would also note R…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…ist hidden in the families making their way out of hellholes in Turkey and Jordan; that we should shrink back and protect ourselves rather than help, as if Jesus did any such thing. As it turns out, it’s a moot point. Someone in our Syrian family has had health problems and is unable to fly. They have been delayed indefinitely, and it’s time for us to start thinking about who we might help in their place. I have longed to greet and welcome them to…

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say: God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…ical ones), the more candid statements are rarely spoken publicly. As Mark Jordan has recently described in great detail, this instrumental use of non-religious rhetoric has led to a discursive slipperiness, leaving the keen observer wondering: What, exactly, is wrong with homosexuality? Opponents of equality often seem unable to respond consistently, instead attempting to marshal a variety of non-religious arguments to bolster what is at heart a…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…nswers in Genesis, argues that the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Human Origins promotes atheism. Ham is one of the founders of the Creation Museum, proving that one museum’s atheism is another museum’s science. A Methodist minister will be tweeting the Eucharist 140 characters at a time. A Christian graduate student at Augusta State University is suing the school for religious discrimination because her counseling department demanded she work to chang…

The Racist Message of Do-Nothing Religion, Courtesy of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

By Kevin Healey

…g so long. An evangelical Christian born again in 1994 and baptized in the Jordan river on a 2016 trip to Israel, Dan Patrick believes Americans have put the proverbial cart before the horse. “We cannot heal through commissions and blue-ribbon panels and more laws,” he said. So far, so good. In fact, activists who are serious about systemic racism have been saying for a long time that tweaking policies, scheduling more training sessions, and buyin…

Straightening Up Cardinal Newman

By Mark D. Jordan

The Vatican agency that reviews cases for new saints has ordered Cardinal Newman’s body exhumed and buried elsewhere. Chief among the stated reasons is the need to place his relics somewhere better suited for receiving pilgrims. What church officials don’t say is that the move will separate Newman’s remains from those of his friend, Ambrose St. John. They were buried together because Newman insisted upon it. There’s nothing unusual in managing re…