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Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…targeting the appropriate demographic, and perhaps we could read this as a reliable method of confirmation of the overlap between Trump-style, right wing politics and Christianity. On the other hand, more than just “evangelicals” (however defined) read the Bible online, and simply because some Trump supporters identify as evangelical or Christian doesn’t mean they do, in fact, read the Bible. Thus others in the comments had different reactions, ex…

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction

By Gary Laderman

…al human drive. Sacred, intoxicating, illuminating medicines are a proven, reliable channel to worlds of meaning and experience relevant to truths about the here and now, as well as those beyond space and time. But of course the historical and anthropological arguments about the sacred values of certain drugs are too subtle and complicated for those largely social conservative voices that have dominated the public debate and only see such matters…

Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ed, made a pastor, or sent on for further study, and eventually becoming a reliable colleague in a closed circle that continues to indoctrinate the next generation of clergy. This mindset is formed early and reinforced throughout a priest’s career. Priesthood is a male-only society where those who are higher in rank judge those who are below them. No one else’s judgment matters—not lay colleagues, not women, not other ministry professionals, and c…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…, wisdom, empathy, and a host of other qualities. But in the end, the most reliable guide to what we’ll do in the future is what we’ve done in the past. The real difference between Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson isn’t their faith, it’s that the former spent a career building an intellectual framework for hard-right conservative jurisprudence, while the latter produced hundreds of rulings fairly and impartially, with reversals by highe…

Ann Romney’s Big Night at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…job to get us to fall in love with her husband, to believe he would be as reliable and hardworking and devoted to us as he has been to her. And to forget that the Republican party routinely adopts positions on matters like pay equity and contraception access and coverage that oppose what most American women understand to be their best interests. In this difficult position, the best Ann Romney could do was emphasize the relational model to which…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…administration and the mandate. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of white Catholics who said the Obama administration was “unfriendly to religion” more than doubled from 17 percent to 36 percent between 2009 and 2014. And starting around 2012, white Catholics broke for the GOP by historic margins. It’s also worth noting, as Michael Sean Winters has, that this occurred around the time the administrative staff of the bishops’ confer…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…ership lists. But this may not be strictly accurate. The SAF, according to reliable reports, had short lists of community and political leaders, some but not all of whom were Christian clergy. They also used voter registration lists to identify SPLM supporters. Significantly, at the top of the list is SPLM leader Abdul Aziz Adam al-Hilu, who happens to be Muslim. “A Fundamentally Evil Government” Rep. Wolf, a “Family stalwart,” went on a tear agai…

David Barton: Falling from Grace?

By Paul Harvey

…conservative Christian faith, and found that Barton’s “inability to write reliable history stretches beyond ideological cheerleading into outright incompetence.” His piece details those errors to devastating effect, and this from an author who previously wrote another essay on how Locke had led him to his Christian faith. Perhaps most importantly, Grove City college professors Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter sliced and diced their way thr…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…e on the Metro going home, but this crowd is Catholic. Clothes alone are a reliable indicator. Parish sweatshirts and Catholic college jackets are the outfits of choice on a cold day. One girl I ran into had a T-shirt that read “Macs for Life.” Should I think MacDonald’s was a sponsor, or maybe Apple? No, she assured me, this was from Immaculata University, a Catholic institution in Pennsylvania. Who knew? This year hats and scarves in matching co…

Going Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’ in Arizona

By Daniel Schultz

…ries will focus on questions such as “Why does it matter that the Bible is reliable?”, “Why does it matter that Jesus was born of a virgin?”, “Why does it matter that Jesus was resurrected?”, or “Why does it matter that Jesus is the only way?” At first glance, the series looks like a simple re-hash of the fundamentalist agenda, but it may be responding to specific points made by Felten. All this is extremely unusual behavior, to say the least. Con…