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Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…ave always veered to the right, often to the extreme. From Civil Rights to Vietnam to abortion to gay rights, from national defense to tax policy to climate change to health care and on and on, white evangelicals have solidly and consistently championed the most conservative positions. Where some white evangelicals have at times been found on the other side of these issues, they have only served to highlight the enormous evangelical majority that…

Storytime with David Brooks: In Which the Liberals’ Favorite Conservative Gets Lost in a Lily-White History

By Peter Laarman

…ion, nonwhite Americans, and almost everyone outside our borders, see this New Israel behaving more like Old Egypt in its worship of wealth and power. Brooks ends his column with a wistful plea for a new Moses to come along to revive the Exodus template and “tell us what our goal is.” My plea is that someone will come along and tell Brooks what our actual history is – and how his kind of misty-eyed mythologizing gets in the way of seeing it clearl…

Did Pence Decline to Wear a Mask Because He’s a ‘Muscular Christian’?

By John Stoehr

…illed more Americans over a month and a half than all who died fighting in Vietnam over 19 years. It’s the smart thing to do in a health clinic whose patients are recovering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. It’s the smart thing to do for the official second-in-line to the most powerful office in the land. Pence is no dummy. What gives? Some have speculated he doesn’t believe he needs one. As a twice-born conservative Chris…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…ves in the film that political converts offend their old friends and their new allies. The old friends hate them for breaking ranks and the new allies hate them even more for being untrustworthy and weak. Niebuhr’s courage to change was one of his chief strengths, although some things about him did not change. He always aspired to realism, even as a pacifist. He thrived on paradox almost to the point of treating it as a criterion of truth. He neve…

The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…southern evangelicals who had come to support slavery. So this was nothing new, but it was also true that the South remained rather isolated intellectually for a long period of time—really, until the 20th century. It was in the North that new liberal and conservative ideas were taking hold, whereas the South, evangelical and not, remained traditionalist and for the status quo. Later, in the 1960s and ’70s, there was an upsurge of fundamentalism in…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…ssed. As Dr. King said, the poor are the only group capable of becoming a “new and unsettling force” who can “organize a revolution against the injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty.” If the poor are to become a “new and unsettling force” with real pol…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

A newly-released Pew poll (headline: “U.S. Muslims Concerned About Their Place in Society, but Continue to Believe in the American Dream“) reveals a Muslim America that has changed dramatically in the past five decades. In 1967, there were probably fewer than 250,000 self-identifying Muslims in the United States: today, according the poll, there are about 3.35 million. So, the Muslim community is likely ten times larger than it was fifty years ag…

Why This Lie? Brian Williams’ Pulpit Fiction

By Peter Manseau

…liams is a storyteller and storytellers can’t resist a good story.” In the New Yorker, Ken Auletta got theological with the suggestion that news anchors “think of themselves as God.” Yet all this focus on a millionaire newsman’s ego and problematic self-perception obscures the larger issue—the Big Lie of which Williams’ tall tales are but a part. Williams did not just tell any lie, after all. He told a war story. He would probably not be enduring…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…ing the country together after the Kent State massacre and the toll of the Vietnam War. Graham led a prayer service on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Graham’s sermon included checking the “stitches” (on the US flag) of racism, poverty and foreign policy. While Graham and others promoted a strong America, part of the audience engaged in an “Honor America Day Smoke-In,” while white nationalists protested for the white man. While Graham would lat…

MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored

By Ed Simon

…had to admit that it “would never happen.” Savage believed, as he told the New York Times‘ Shaila Dewan in 2008, that the most fitting memorial to Dr. King would have been a “life-size statue of him, placed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he stood when he delivered his most famous oration.” The actual memorial, as designed by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin, conveys a rather different affect. Instead of Savage’s seemingly unassuming commemo…