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Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…ys quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles? Elsewhere in pro football, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a religious bunch. Star defensive player Troy Polamalu even spent four days in a Greek Orthodox monastery during the off-season. An update on the Oklahoma atheist billboard story. The sign reads “Atheism is OK in Oklahoma.” A billboard company has answered the atheists with signs reading: “Why settle for OK? God promises MORE” and “God is more than O…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…ber 2nd, the Catholic Identity Conference is meeting in a hotel outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Connected to groups like Church Militant, The Remnant and other rad-trad Catholic groups, the conference has been a venue for Steve Bannon, QAnon-linked Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, and others to rail against Pope Francis, “globalists” (i.e. “Jews”), and “the New World Order.” The original title for this year’s event, “The Crusade Has Been Called…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…acks in recent years. In 2018 the vicious assault on a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh by Robert Gregory Bowers was characterized as an act of “lone wolf” terrorism. So was the 2015 massacre in a Charleston church by 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof; and earlier that year the assault on the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, Charlie Hebdo, by two Algerian brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi. Before that, there was the 2013 Tsarna…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…er, was an anti-Semite’s shooting rampage at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest such attack in American history. It was an act of violence deeply rooted in America’s gun idolatry, one that was not so much the past come back to haunt the nation as a reflection of the present danger egged on by a bigot-in-chief willing to embrace anti-Semitic slurs and conspiracy theories. It was made worse by that same administration calling on…

Pro-LGBT Evangelical David Gushee: “I’m With You and the Church Needs to Change.”

By Sarah Posner

…missive criticisms from fellow evangelicals. Robert Gagnon, a professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, writing in the Christian Post, called Merritt’s article “a tendentious puff piece” and contested Merritt’s description of Gushee’s “intellectual heft” with the accusation that “Dr. Gushee has ignored nearly all the major arguments against his embarrassingly bad exegesis.” Denny Burk, a professor of biblical studies at Southern Baptist Theolo…

The Christian Guilty Conscience Over the History of Anti-Semitism Isn’t Enough

By Peter Laarman

…prompts us to grieve and to show up in solidarity when something like the Pittsburgh shooting happens. We’ve studied the grisly history of Christian anti-Judaism. We see the connection between, say, the Gospels’ collective blaming of Jews for the death of Christ and the deep stain of anti-Semitism running through the entire history of European Christianity. We quote our Martin Niemoeller’s “First they came for…” poem with abandon, even though it’…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…s. According to Dauer, who is currently pursuing his Master of Divinity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, my positive assessment of the lack of censorship of GCC’s student newspaper, The Collegian, is not entirely accurate. Dauer says, “The school newspaper has actually censored articles in the past,” claiming that in an article he wrote, the school removed a reference to a death threat an LGBTQ friend of his received in the campus mail. “There…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…nt of the delegates were members of minority groups, and male delegates outnumbered women delegates about two to one. To judge by these numbers, the Republicans still play to an America conceived as predominantly white. Racial prejudice against Obama appears in several ways. One is the denial by racists of their prejudice but their attribution of racism to others—a ploy known as projection. (Pollsters are having a difficult time estimating the ext…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…ristian.” It’s possible for progressives to make a case for a Christianity conforming to their views—that MLK Jr. was a better Christian than Dylann Roof, or Sister Marta Wołowska of Słonim more deserving of the Christian epithet than the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, Robert Bowers. In arguing that the rise of white Christian nationalism should make us acutely aware that the “Christian” label is up for grabs, I’m also arguing that progressives nee…

UPDATED: Right-sizing the Threat of Political Violence in the 2024 Election — And After

By Steven Gardiner

…re perpetrators like Kyle Rittenhouse, or the mass shooters in Buffalo and Pittsburgh (and far too many other places). We must acknowledge the possibility of such attacks but also understand that they remain, thankfully, rare. UPDATE: This recent report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) does a deep dive into right-wing and far-right organizations, agitation, and conspiracy theories related to election denial and…