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Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…s never the goal of the Trump administration. In order to understand the real goal of this event, we need to head over to the Egg Roll “reading nook.” To watch the videos of the reading nook, held outdoors on a day when temperatures struggled to climb out of the 40s, is to give the children credit for tolerating such rollicking fun as Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s reading of the six-page board book “Roaring Rockets,” which she somehow str…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…g services. Pilgrims using GPS keep missing Lourdes and ending up in the small village of Lourde, population 94. It has no Marian apparitions but is still a lovely village. A Georgia pastor is upset that his son will become a demon. He has started a petition against the demon mascot of Warner Robins High School. Pastor Donald Crosby says, “A demon never has a good connotation. Never… There’s nothing good about a demon.” What’s the future of mainli…

You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…d to recover post-transplant. Currently, there’s a preference for traditional family models of social support to qualify to be listed for an organ, but I would like to see if that could be expanded to include other kinds of support. This kind of work is an uphill battle. I don’t anticipate changes any time soon. But isn’t it the case that not being a donor just makes the organ scarcity worse? Maybe. But almost all aspects of the economy run on sca…

The Bible Passage at the Root of the House’s Punitive Farm Bill

By Jonathan Malesic

…which politics, race, and class mix with theology to enable elected officials to moralize about who deserves to eat. Currently, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 without dependents have to work for pay to remain eligible for SNAP benefits. Under the version of the Farm Bill passed in the House earlier this year, able-bodied adults 50-59 would be required to have jobs, as would adults caring for children over age 6. (The bill received zero votes from…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ds In a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to the Thames, there is an old, dark-wood paneled pub with leaded windows. Formerly known by the borderline obscene name of “The Spread Eagle,” this is the oldest tavern on the river and it’s hard to go there and not imagine what it must have been like centuries before. Four centuries ago it was the favorite of a sea captain named Master Christopher Jones, who may…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…ut Judeo-Bolshevism was taboo in Western Europe. But you could certainly still talk about “Asiatic Bolshevism” as a danger to the West, much in the same way that the Nazis had done. The two had always gone together for them. The co-existence of these very different ways of thinking about Communist power and the threat it posed to the West made it possible for so many former fascists—and in Germany, former Nazis—to recast themselves as good anti-Co…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lanta Olympic park by Eric Robert Rudolph, and the 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing by Timothy McVeigh. Some of these were committed by Christians, some by Muslims, and some by those with no particular religious affiliation at all. Some had racist ideologies in mind, others were simply raging against society. In almost all cases, though, these have been instances where alienated individuals have struck back at a society that they though…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…ng of Christian-Muslim Borders It was during the tenure of the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik (685 to 705) that a distinctive Muslim identity started to be shaped in contrast to Christianity. The coins minted in this time and the inscriptions installed in the new Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem all emphasize that “God begets not and was not begotten.” The Dome of the Rock inscriptions are anti-trinitarian and mince no words in proclaiming that “the rel…

How To Engage Politics As A Community?

By Daniel Schultz

…what would be effective — and I suspect that at least some of my students will be skeptical as well. Partway through the book, though, I had an epiphany. My own practice of citizenship consists, aside from voting every couple years, of reading a lot of stuff so that I can stay informed, then forming opinions about public policy and arguing with people on the internet about it. Like the Guatemalan strategy, this approach is premised on individualis…

Special Series: Can We Call the New Zealand Terrorist a ‘Christian’ White Nationalist?

By Evan Derkacz

…a New Zealand mosque, RD published a brief post by regular contributor Murali Balaji that was, or so we thought, fairly uncontroversial. In it, Balaji sought to broaden the conversation over the terrorist’s motives—widely described as Islamophobic—and to characterize his perspective as part of a larger movement of “Christian nationalism [that] has entrenched itself into white majority countries.” Shortly after it went live there was a backlash, w…