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RDBook: Wifely Submission and Christian Warfare

By Kathryn Joyce

…res of feminism and careers. Having just given birth to her sixth child in rural New Zealand, Campbell, like many women who would become conservative leaders, says she felt bereft of guidance and encouragement in her stay-at-home life and determined to provide it herself for other young mothers living a homemaker’s life. She started from scratch and eventually went on to mentor thousands, leading women back to hearth, home, and the proper honor of…

A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

…acter. What would that quiet, white, Christian male authority look like in today’s world, and what kind of society would Commander, oops, President Pence seek to build? As Trump’s troubles grow by the hour so does the urgency of these questions. Online and off, the term Christofascism is creeping into conversations. Christofascism, a word coined by theologian Dorothee Sölle, refers to Christian authoritarianism, an outcome sought by some in the Re…

Charleston Killings: This is What a Sin Against the Holy Spirit Looks Like

By Peter Laarman

…t we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace–not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. And I submit, then, that the racial tensions that menace Americans today have little to do with real antipathy–on the contrary, indeed–and are involved only…

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wheaton College Would Like to Pretend Its LGBTQ Students Don’t Exist

By William Stell

…y pride flag flies at your Christian college, it is a direct attack on the Word of God, It’s shameful…” ). Personally, I don’t blame the administration for removing a flag whose display they hadn’t authorized. If this was all that had happened, I wouldn’t be bothering to write about my alma mater right now. But something else happened: several days later, The Bench—a beloved slab of concrete on the campus that is frequently (and licitly) tagged wi…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…itive to the possibility that their friends and family waiting outside for news might also be religiously unaffiliated or had even been alienated or hurt by religion. Which makes it all the more ironic that chaplains from the Billy Graham Crusade had, according to Landeza, been trying to enter the fire site for days. Landeza, who was born and raised in Berkeley and has ministered in the Bay Area for decades (and had been at the fire site for five…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…Kelley has shown in the example of the destruction of public play areas in New York in the 1990s. As these performative moves reveal, America is a White space, and public spaces are sites of impromptu and systematic ritualized take-backs—land grabs writ small—because Whiteness is anti-public, anti-commons, and privatizing. Indeed, even these “public” spaces are stolen spaces, as is the case in the Malheur preserve, which sits on the Burns Paiute T…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…sly. Or, apparently, rouse religious leaders to name what is really going on beneath the froth of Washington reporting. And by the way, the New York Times editorial board sees it this way, too….

The Third Jihad, Adelson, and Gingrich

By Sarah Posner

…es. First, Linda Sarsour, the director of the Arab American Association of New York, discussed the NYPD: Beckerman and Sarsour then discussed Adelson, and his impact on Gingrich, including the latter’s assertion that the Palestinians are an “invented people:” CLARIFICATION: This post originally said that Adelson funded the Clarion Fund; this was based on a Times piece from earlier this week which reported that the Clarion Fund’s Obsession project…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…is commentary on the Occupy movement for The Nation, Harper’s, and The New York Times. He has also written about the largesse of the Templeton Foundation and profiled the anthropologist Gabriella Coleman for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Schneider’s “The Biblical Circus of William Stringfellow,” the first of many contributions to RD, appeared just four weeks after RD’s launch in early 2008. His new book, God In Proof, is the story of “the se…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

Shortly before the November election New York Times columnist David Brooks offered an interesting observation on the legacy of Alan Greenspan. I was highly critical of it at the time, though in general Brooks is a moderate and thoughtful Republican who is remarkably innocent of the ideological blinders of the extreme wing of his Party; and, for this very reason he’s an important person with whom those on the Left should be in dialogue. Brooks beg…