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Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…s facility for framing morally complex issues in an ecumenically spiritual way. Who’s to say that the frequent churchgoers responded to “God-talk” or religious outreach, as opposed to the candidate’s way of speaking which so clearly distinguished him from the hairsplitting, technocratic Kerry, whose defeat was frequently blamed on a reluctance to talk about his Catholicism? Regardless of the unproven electoral benefits of Democrats flaunting faith…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…’ll take care of you.” In return, you’ll vote early and vote often, as the Chicago political machine used to say. The “post-partisan” political faith Obama has come to embrace offers more help than conservatism but fewer guarantees than secular liberalism. It doesn’t demand political loyalty, it asks for earnest acclamation. To conservatism’s business elite and secular liberalism’s political elite, it responds with yet another ruling class: a “res…

Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99

By Randall Balmer

…ined—or at least they were never publicly articulated. He generally shied away from religiously inspired programs of social reform, insisting that the only way to change society is to “change men’s hearts.” That statement comported with his premillennialism, the belief that Jesus will return at any time—before the millennium, one thousand years of righteousness, predicted in Revelation 20—and that projects of social reform were essentially pointle…

Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump

By Adam Laats

…They bragged that Wheaton taught students both “the Christian and American way of life.” Nearby at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute, the president informed one donor in 1947 that MBI taught “the old-fashioned kind of Americanism.” Perhaps most famously, the fundamentalist stalwart Bob Jones University clung to the notion that evangelical values were conservative patriotic values and vice versa. Second-generation leader Bob Jones Jr., for example, t…

Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…t. Do Rastafarians and Quakers have something in common? A Hindu temple in Chicago inaugurated the Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Center this past weekend. The space will be used for yoga and meditation. It is dedicated to the Hindu leader who broke onto the American scene at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religion, also held in Chicago. The World’s Parliament may return to the United States, as Dallas has made the list of possible host cities alongs…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…ls successful just so a young demoniac created by Szandor D’Alba would have the opportunity to reveal her powers on a national stage? Was the network meddling with the devil or was it the other way around? Either way, the result is gruesome mayhem, an apt metaphor for the demonic paranoia that real life networks have unleashed in their quest for ratings….

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…le of Regnery points out, the company, founded by Henry Regnery in 1947 in Chicago, and [i]nitially affiliated with the University of Chicago’s “Great Books” series, … became a leading publisher of old-guard, conservative writers such as Russell Kirk, James Burnham, and William F. Buckley, Jr.“ After being bought by Eagle Publishing in 1993, the company turned to red-meat conservatism, and published works by such authors as Newt Gingrich, William…

WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

By Evan Derkacz

…PE” IS, THAT HE REALLY HOPES, THAT NO ONE WILL PUT ALL THESE PIECES TOGETHER, UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION. ++++ What’s most frustrating about bigoted screeds like this one isn’t really that it’s a bigoted screed. What’s most frustrating (to me anyway) is that the inspiration behind these smears is the understanding that the right questions aren’t being asked, that the level of discourse in the media is two grades below Speak and Spell, and that, in e…

Is Wheaton’s Decision to End Student Insurance a Religious Liberty Ruse?

By Patricia Miller

…student development said at a student information session reported in the Chicago Tribune. “What really breaks my heart is that there are real people that are affected by our decision. But if we don’t win this case, the implications down the road in terms of what the government will tell us what we can and cannot do will be potentially more significant.” This plays into the idea advanced by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is represen…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010); Kathryn Lofton in Oprah: Gospel of an Icon(Berkeley: University of California, 2011); Matthew S. Hedstrom, in The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford, 2013); Elesha J. Coffman, The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline (New York: Oxford, 2…