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New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…and tears of the poor are on our clothes made in slave shops, and on our iPhones where thousands of Chinese in Shenzhen assemble them working eleven hour days for 83 cents an hour under brutal conditions. The wages are even lower in Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere. This Vatican document is a gem of moral reasoning. It is hard-nosed justice theory applied to real life. A final suggestion: along with the moratorium on sex talk, the Vatican should c…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…and HIV as twinned issues in, for example, your 2010 book Names, Not Just Numbers: Facing Global Aids and World Hunger. I have to admit I love the title and its humane thrust. What do you see as the core reasons these issues are related? I already touched on this in response to an earlier question, when I sought to demonstrate the link between hunger and HIV. Let me expand my comments a bit. People who are HIV positive and who lack appropriate tr…

What’s Eating Mitt Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…Romney’s 1967 statement that he had been “brainwashed” into supporting the Vietnam War, a statement that all but destroyed his campaign for the Republican 1968 nomination. What the younger Romney learned from his father’s mistakes, according to Swidey, was a profound sense of caution. During the 2008 campaign, Peggy Fletcher Stack, an award-winning religion reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, interviewed members of the Mormon congregations (or “…

Hatfield, Early Republican Critic of Religious Right,
Dead at 89

By Sarah Posner

…es that also put him at odds with Democrats, notably his opposition to the Vietnam war. At the end of the piece, citing an interview Hatfield did with Sojourners magazine in 1996, the piece notes he found the religious right an “embarrassment” to his party, as well as his concern about its influence on Christianity, rather than politics. In fact, Hatfield was prescient several decades earlier about the impact of the religious right. In the forewar…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…sly much weaker. The civil rights movement ended. The struggle against the Vietnam War ran aground. But, meanwhile, there has been a remarkable growth in grassroots citizens’ organizations. Nearly all of that growth has been under the media radar, but it has been truly significant. And many important victories have been won. Community organizing, which was focused on organizing particular neighborhoods, has given way to what Cortes calls “broad-ba…

Errol Morris’ Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and ‘Cult’ Deprogramming

By David Mihalyfy

After confronting the Vietnam War and the torture images of Abu Ghraib in his most recent films, Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris turns to a 1977 scandal involving North Carolina beauty queen Joyce McKinney in his new documentary Tabloid—an episode deeply intertwined with, among other things, Mormonism and cult deprogramming. Morris’ corpus has consistently focused on self-deception and the difficulties in reconstructing past events,…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…connected to the rape and sexual exploitation of Indian women. During the Vietnam War the US military referred to indigenous-controlled territory as “Indian Country.” Fire bases and military operations were named after Indian leaders or significant events in the longest war in human history, the war against the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Most famously, the military has long encouraged paratrooper trainees to call out his name w…

Pawlenty Stars in American Civil Religion: The Movie

By Michael J. Altman

…tical usage, the myth expanded as America spread its reach to the moon, to Vietnam, and to the Middle East. If we are exceptional and if we work the hardest, than surely we deserve to grow. It’s not imperialism, it’s a blessing for our hard work. This is the myth Pawlenty draws on when he brings up the examples of Valley Forge, the moon landing, and the settlement of the west. These myths are more than just ways of giving America meaning, and sell…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…ter acceptance of pluralism during the 20th century. Today, even a growing number of evangelicals treat those positions as mainstream—but ecumenical institutions have struggled. During 1960s-era social transformations, conservative laity withdrew money and support from organized ecumenism. Meanwhile young liberal Christians often left it behind to do social justice work within a secular environment that offered quicker, bolder action. Others compr…

Air Force Speaking Invitation to Member of “Lord’s Army” Sparks Outrage

By Lauri Lebo

…McClary, a born-again Christian and war veteran who lost an eye and arm in Vietnam, has received endorsements from the late Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, and says he is now a member of the “Lord’s Army.” The Air Force Academy invited McClary to speak at the Feb. 10 event, which was inspired by the annual National Prayer Breakfast in DC. Church-state separation advocates have long been critical of the Air Force Academy’s tolerance for, and indeed…