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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…cupy their seats].” Obviously a congested plane aisle isn’t the end of the world (although one can imagine it might be a safety issue in some situations), and the news reports have treated it as a kind of amusing oddity. But what’s interesting here is the pattern of behavior, which replicates the broader social and political movement strategies we’ve seen on a personal scale. First, you try to convince people to do what you want—so, for example, i…

On Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State

By H.A. Hellyer

…I doubt very much that translates into a desire for an Islamist state. As news flowed around the world that Mubarak’s reign was in its last year, many on the left were disappointed, arguing that he should leave immediately, and without delay. On the right, they were demanding that the West support his continued reign, out of the fear that the Muslim Brotherhood would take over, and Israel would be threatened. One the streets of Egypt, though, the…

Christian Colleges, Gay Faculty—and the Boy Scouts

By L Marston

…d a Rhodes Scholar (Calvin has had one Rhodes Scholar), and both the local newspaper and alumni magazine have run feature articles about the student. Upon receiving a Ph.D. from Oxford, this Calvin graduate applies for a teaching position at his/her alma mater. What will the message be? I presume it will be something like this. “We loved you as a student and are extremely proud of your accomplishments. However, should you want to be on the faculty…

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

…urces for the purpose of deliberately playing on people’s fears of coronavirus as a means of bringing them to Jesus. Extremist organizations are also exploiting the pandemic to recruit families into the Christian Homeschooling Movement. E. Ray Moore, a member of the Council for National Policy’s education committee and one of the founders of a far right-wing initiative called Public School Exit, even enthused in a recent press release about “this…

Four Changes Evangelicals Must Make

By Richard Pierard

…an Century, which has begun to open its pages to evangelical contributors, news, and books, while its circulation figures have held firm. Christianity Today remains a rich source of information about all things evangelical, but it needs to be more balanced and to give space to the voices of younger critics of evangelicalism and the older figures who stand behind them. 4) Finally, evangelicals have to get off the abortion issue. The electoral defea…

The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster

By Chrissy Stroop

…North America (ACNA), aboard as the author of a Times-subscriber-exclusive newsletter. Her opinion piece introducing the newsletter is focused on the notion that “we” need to start talking about God—as if America weren’t already super-saturated with conservative Christian God talk—though it’s presented in a meandering, aw-shucks tone that suggests an openness and broadness of spirit belied by her actual history and affiliations. In fairness, what…

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) and the Rise of Extreme Evangelicalism

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

….S. power aligned with the rise of Billy Graham (his famous New York City crusade was in 1957), the founding of Campus Crusade of Christ (1951), and other evangelical groups aiming to fulfill the Great Commission. Elliot’s story emerged at the center of the wave of these movements. As global capitalism began to make middle-class life more and more comfortable, something was needed shake people out of their settled religious ways. Human effort, to…

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

By Rebecca Moore

…s with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in their June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower, they were telling the truth, sort of, since they were discussing repercussions of the Magnitsky Act.) Under the act, dozens of Russian officials involved in documented abuses have been sanctioned. In 2016 Congress extended the act to encompass any country engaged in human rights violations. Under the Global Magnitsky Act, Secretary of State Pompeo recently named…

The Man Behind Ben Carson’s “Secular Progressive” Fixation

By Neil J. Young

…ed mobilize evangelicals since the 1970s—a language grounded in a Biblical worldview and a logic that construes all policy debates in terms no less than good versus evil. Carson’s language (and political vision) draws from the writings of Francis Schaeffer, the most influential intellectual figure in the history of the Religious Right. In developing his ideas on secular humanism, Schaeffer, a fundamentalist Presbyterian minister and author, gave C…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…minism.” It is a space that is reminding serious organizers that winning structural change is ultimately about understanding power and using power. To be reminded that revolution is still possible is utterly thrilling; to be reminded that making a revolution amounts to hard, grueling, lifelong work is sobering, even terrifying. And what of Sanders himself? Does he even understand the full magnitude of what he has unleashed? In dreams begins respon…