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Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…rd of for a successful preacher to find his way into politics. In the early 1980s, Jerry Falwell changed the face of the Republican party with his Moral Majority. Pat Robertson ran for president in 1988, as did Mike Huckabee in 2008. Aspiring beyond the merely pastoral therefore seems very much within the purview of Reverend Billy’s act. “It’s the occasion for speaking in a visionary way,” says Talen. When the Green Party approached him and Durkee…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…to precisely this question was voiced by James Buchan in his extraordinary 1997 book, Frozen Desire: In the new world, first, there is no such thing as Providence, merely probability, which can be studied at the gaming table. Second, there is such a thing as usury: whatever Aristotle and the Gospels say, money is productive of more money, it does breed, and on Sunday, too… Third, the Church is quite wrong and human beings are all more or less ali…

All Of A Sudden, There’s Nazis Everywhere… And They Only Seem to Associate with One Party

By Daniel Schultz

…ts disavowing Nehlen—will entirely escape a black eye from him. Nehlen drew 15% in his challenge against Ryan, for one thing. For another, in Wisconsin, candidates below the level of president and vice-president are allowed to choose which party they want to associate with. In other words, Nehlen’s a Republican candidate, whether they like it or not. So far, the “Nazi” descriptor here has been metaphorical, but in Illinois, there’s an actual godda…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…myself that your mother was abused from the day she was born in Austria in 1940, on top of which, she grew up in a war zone. She just had such a hard, hard childhood. Religion even then was the only place where she found solace. She was Catholic as a child, but converted to Mormonism at age 16, after missionaries from the US showed up at her door. The Church became her family. Then she met my dad, who was serving a mission in Austria, and he help…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan. On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her 15-year-old daughter were massacred by the Salvadoran military. When U.S. congressional leaders announced that those responsible for the slayings had been trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia, I and a small group of friends returned to Georgia to investigate the SOA. In 1990,…

The Bible is a Good Book, But God Didn’t Write It

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…story. We victimized Jews during the Crusades. We victimized Muslims in the 14th century. We victimized heretics. We victimized people of color. We victimized women. We victimized homosexuals. We victimized the environment. We’re currently victimizing immigrants. It’s all the same mentality. What is it about Christianity that makes us constantly be a victimizer? I think it’s because we’ve adopted victimizing theology. We spend all our time in chur…

GOProud Activist Boasts “We Came Out On Top”

By Sarah Posner

…confident that both the Republican Party platform and the Republican Party ticket in 2012 and the foreseeable future will be for the federal marriage amendment, for defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, and for the Defense of Marriage Act.” GOProud opposes the Defense of Marriage Act, but only because it believes decisions on gay marriage should be made at the state level. It does not, however take a position on the merits of gay m…

What is a “Religious Progressive” Anyway?

By Daniel Schultz

…ing Bob” La Follette, who ran for the White House on the Progressive party ticket, and whose journal survives to this day, headquartered down by the Essen Haus practically in the shadow of the Wisconsin state capitol. For those of us lucky enough to grow up in the “Moscow of the Midwest,” progressive could mean generally any non-communist member of the Old Left (it is a distressing artifact of my upbringing that I can parse far better than the ave…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…zing and electoral politics. Manion was campaign manager for a third-party ticket in 1956 and the prime mover of Americans for Goldwater in 1960. National Review editors organized a rally against Khrushchev’s visit in 1959. The next year Young Americans for Freedom, a central organization of the conservative movement, was born at Buckley’s Connecticut estate. The infrastructure of the modern conservative movement was built by media activists—the o…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…wer Emphases on Jewish History,” published relatively late in his career in 1963, Baron wrote: All my life I have been struggling against the hitherto dominant lachrymose conception of Jewish history because I have felt that an overemphasis on Jewish sufferings distorted the whole picture of the Jewish historic evolution and, at the same time, badly served a generation which had become impatient with the nightmare of endless persecutions and massa…