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The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

…: First, there’s dualism, or the division of reality into a “godly” spiritual realm, in which lies the “perfect,” and a corrupt material world, which is “profanity, unconsciousness and death.” Second, there’s “conspiratorialism” or “the psychologizing of historical events to the conscious intentions and omniscient and all-powerful Benefactors and Malefactors.” This mix reduces the causes of perceived social decline into a quest for scapegoats in n…

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To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

…xperience with the divine, transcendent, that which lies beyond this physical realm. Authenticity is one of the most deeply felt needs of our time, particularly among Gen X and Millennials. Authenticity, as Robert W. Terry, the late director of the Reflective Leadership Center at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, described it, is: “ubiquitous, calling us to be true to ourselves and true to the world, real in…

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Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

…d plenary input. Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff offered a new theological paradigm, given the ecological crisis made vivid in the ailing Amazon region. Such grand plans are hard to imagine without leaving aside the particularities that shape real lives, but the effort is useful insofar as it demonstrates the enormity of the task and the paucity of current theological resources to do the job. Womanist theologian Emilie Townes provided ethical a…

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Why Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats

…, Bean found that Canadian white evangelicals are very fond of their nationalized health care. The reasons for this, Bean explains, have a lot to do with political persuasion outside the American church, and in particular from business interests who found useful allies in religious leaders who helped define American evangelicalism as being against a government-provided social safety net. That’s not a view inherent to evangelicalism, though, as Bea…

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New Poll Shows Religious Right and Left Look Very Different

alysis of progressive attitudes on church-state issues see Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State—Ed.] One last result that should not come as a surprise if you stop to think about it: conservatives report attending church far more frequently than their liberal counterparts. 52% of conservatives are in the pews more than once a week, compared to 25% of progressives. Once-a-week numbers are a little more balan…

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The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

…perspective on one’s own colonized faith is liberating and life-giving. It parallels what Dr. King seems to have felt in writing his powerful letter from a Birmingham jail: not just deep dismay over the cowardice and corruption of the white church but also an absolute and joy-filled conviction that God is driving the Black freedom struggle forward despite it all. Today, as in King’s day, there is widespread dereliction of duty among the self-procl…

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