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The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…and minds to bring the white church back to the kind of moral authority it used to have. America seems to be at an incredibly difficult intersection in its social life these days. Trump has brought to a boil long-simmering divisions between conservative whites, particularly in exurban and rural areas, and the emerging knowledge economy of the cities and suburbs. The Christian church, as always, neither completely drives these changes, nor is compl…

Homophobia Chases Millennials From Church

By Alana Massey

…ted a church that delivered on its promises of inclusion, tolerance, and love and were failed so profoundly by churches in the stranglehold of homophobic rhetoric and abuse. Young people are repulsed by it. And if this atheist had to venture a guess, I bet that Jesus would be too….

A Monumentally Different Kirk Cameron

By Julie Ingersoll

…s critique rapture theology, Phillips says of the Puritan experiment in America: “it didn’t happen with people just waiting to get out of here” (i.e. to be raptured). Cameron agrees and invokes the idea of multigenerational faithfulness promoted by Vision Forum—though VF only advocates a 200-year plan: “Their attitude (the Puritans) was not ‘uh-oh the beast and the Antichrist is here… let’s just keep our heads down and wait for the end of the worl…

Dads Against Daughters Dating

By Julie Ingersoll

…unctioning autonomously from male authority, even in the process of finding a mate. Girls are to rely on their fathers to do this for them and remain in submission to their fathers until they have been given over to submit to their husbands. These organizations all promote literature, lectures, conferences, and other materials intended to promote this perspective, as well as the starkly delineated gender norms and expectations upon which this view…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…the United States, which they want to impose “the new Moral Agenda” which promotes abortion, marriage between lesbians, gays and transsexuals. The president and director of the Christian Action Group spoke on a panel addressing “The new global agenda and its implications in the Dominican Republic.” They warned that international institutions like the Organization for American States and United Nations are pushing an agenda that would “destroy the…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…t Orsi) or Rebecca’s Revival (by Jon Sensbach). Orsi’s book is classic because it focused on everyday religious experiences of Italian immigrants, a cluster of activities that many outsider observers considered to be “bad religion.” Orsi did, and still does, find ways to battle that idea. Sensbach uses the story of a formerly enslaved Moravian to give readers a new understanding of how Protestantism came to North America. It’s beautiful. It’s a re…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…hich they spoke up for themselves and for the interests of wage-earning Americans. The story emerging about #occupyWallStreet is not about the protest itself, but that the NYPD has used excessive force against the protesters, aiming pepper spray directly into their eyes, and abusing power “in a cruel and cowardly” way, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic, hardly a bastion of left-wing activism. At his blog Waging Nonviolence, Nathan Schneider doc…

Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory

By Arri Eisen

…cestor. While in no way disputing that we all share a common ancestor in Africa, a group of scientists are saying, first, that we all agree that after our initial start in Africa (about 50,000 years ago), we all spread out around the world into very different environments, and second, that those different environments account not only for why we look different, but the different environments and separation from other groups also account for our di…

Will SCOTUS Call the “Bluff” of Religious Liberty Activists?

By Kara Loewentheil

…going to allow religious objectors to completely opt-out of laws by continually re-defining the burden on their religious exercise, regardless of the impact on third parties and the harms done to them. And you can bet if that strategy succeeds here, we’ll see it in use very soon in other contexts, like exemptions to LGBT non-discrimination laws and marriage equality protections. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that….

The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…atives as out of the mainstream (at least for a state like New York) has caused a frenzy against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Charles Pierce: The other day, Cuomo gave a radio interview in which he made the unremarkable point that the kind of Republican who wins elections in, say, Alabama, likely would have something of a tough row to hoe in New York. “If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York,” Cuomo said i…