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Study Shows Mainline Women Clergy Are Significantly More Progressive Than Their Male Counterparts

By Melissa Deckman

…the general population, a significant gender gap appeared on a variety of policy attitudes, including cultural issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights. In a survey released this fall, my organization PRRI found once again that mainline Protestant clergy overall are more politically progressive and identify as more Democratic than their parishioners. But what an initial analysis failed to note was the significant gender gap that continues to shap…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…he 1960s felt that the denomination had forsaken the historic Presbyterian policy of the “spirituality of the church.” That policy, to dismantle “Negro” presbyteries and synods and desegregate the church, dated only from 1957, arising in part as a direct response to the Little Rock school episode. Many (not all, but a majority) of white southern Presbyterians resisted to one degree or another. Some eventually had a change of heart. Others connecte…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…country in the world, the United States included, can now pursue domestic policy independent of international financial markets. How much more so the Arab world—considering how much poorer and less developed it is? And in that case, what difference does it make what government you have? Left or right, the market seems always to win. This is actually where I would locate the greater threat to Arab democracy, and the temptation to slide into some f…

Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…m therapy to religion as a pragmatic or bureaucratic decision. In the 1962 policy letter that Urban quotes, Hubbard describes the religion of Scientology as “entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors,” and that religion is “where the money is.” Religion also had the added benefit of tax exemption—until the auditors were audited, that is. In 1967, the IRS revoked the church’s tax-exempt status, ruling that Scientology—and Hubbard—were prof…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…them on women’s access to abortion, legal equality for LGBT people, or tax policy. Jeffress thinks it’s fine to interrogate candidates’ religious beliefs. “The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician’s values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.” Indeed there may be times when it is legitimate to ask whether a candidate’s religious positions would have a direct impact on policy. Rel…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…executive orders to date than any president since Harry Truman, the actual policy impact of those orders varies widely. Legal guidance and memos from the Departments of Justice, Education, or Defense—and the rescinding of such guidance issued under Obama—have a similar ability to elicit panic among progressive communities. But those too are constrained by regulatory, constitutional, and jurisprudential parameters. But that doesn’t mean progressive…

Obama Missing Islam Opportunity with Religious Freedom Ambassador

By Anthea Butler

…. Cook comes in the face of Sen. Jim De Mint’s secret hold on Cook’s nomination, which Sarah Posner wrote about here for RD. I wrote on Cook previously, citing her lack of international policy experience. Now more than ever, this post needs someone who has a handle on Islam, foreign policy, and other religious traditions. The people’s uprising in Egypt is a prime example why this ambassadorship needs someone who is more knowledgeable about religio…

Things the GOP Won’t Like about Ron Paul

By Julie Ingersoll

…d as “dangerous.” He then said bin Laden’s death should change our foreign policy because we are doing what Bin Laden wanted: “He wanted us to stay there, drain our resources and bankrupt our country… the connection between our foreign policy and our financial problems is significant.” These days many Americans are war weary—and that includes Obama supporters who think he has not done enough to get us out. It might look like the time is ripe for d…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…he father of us all,” the “us” he referred to was the small group of elite policymakers who brought us the hydrogen bomb and the Cuban missile crisis, the IMF and the World Bank, because (as the NSC-68, which essentially set the policy for the Cold War, put it), even if there were no communist threat, the world had to move toward “some kind of order, on somebody’s terms.” Unfortunately Obama offers no way out of this tragic path. Though he shoul…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…that this book is the most important work ever written on American foreign policy. One probably has to be a Niebuhrian realist to admire it that much. Certainly, Irony belongs in the canon of foreign policy realism. Niebuhr shrewdly deflated some of his nation’s pretentions, contending that America’s innocent self-image inoculated Americans from recognizing their nation’s imperialism. This innocence was functional for America’s imperial role, he s…