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Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…all, it’s a matter of accuracy. As Sarah Posner points out on Bluesky, the best—as in, most accurate—descriptor for the TPUSA conference is “Christian nationalist.” As she notes, “The organizers and participants believe that God intended America to be a Christian nation, and that God’s intent has been subverted by secularism, ‘woke’ indoctrination, abortion, etc.” And as we know, adherents of Christian nationalism are not the majority of Christian…

What is Community?

By Amina Wadud

…too complex. One of the passages I was reading refers to the ummah of the Book. I found that interesting. Interesting because I had to think what it meant. Is it like the “people of the book” in the Qur’an, thereby identifying only the Abrahamic religions with each a distinct ummah? Especially when the Qur’an also commands us (humans? Muslims?) to be the “best ummah“; and to be the ummah of the middle, moderate or balanced way (i.e. not the extre…