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Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…s of Jack Abramoff) this case dramatizes the moral bankruptcy of alliances between the NCR and neoconservative power brokers. 1) The top of my list revealed: What could top such a list? Since we’re on the subject of disasters today, we might have noted how, amid the response to Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush’s FEMA hyped Robertson’s philanthropic arm, Operation Blessing. This organization is small and unorthodox at best, and has been accused of…

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

…at the missionary impulse behind their “Christian Americanization” efforts betrayed its own kind of imperialism. Such groups extended the hand of friendship to racialized European immigrants and new Black neighbors from the Great Migration, but nevertheless characterized such groups as practicing “ethnic” religions that could benefit from the civilizing example of White Protestant culture. It was within this patronizing multiculturalism that White…

Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative

By Paul Harvey

…or a more just distribution of wealth, coming down hard against the war in Vietnam, and consistently invoking a social gospel critique of the workings of power and wealth. King’s dream, long since denuded of its actual social and economic content in the nationally celebratory rhetoric, demanded fundamental and unsettling disruptions in the normal working of the economic body politic. From this perspective the senators who opposed the proclamation…

‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

By Chrissy Stroop

…r to those willing to look at the evidence, Pinkston couldn’t have given a better present to the “He Gets Us” campaign’s liberal and progressive critics than he did by simply revealing his affiliation if he’d gift-wrapped his op-ed and tied it up with a bow. Here’s hoping this comedy of unforced errors continues. Not only do we all need a laugh. The public also deserves to know what the real agenda behind “He Gets Us” is, and the more exposure, th…

No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…t of Marriage (1976), Tim and Beverly LaHaye made explicit the connections between sex and power. They instructed women to “clean up, paint up, fix up” before their husbands came home in order to fulfill their husbands’ sexual needs. “God designed man to be the aggressor, provider, and leader of his family,” and these roles were tied to his sex drive; you can’t have a man’s “aggressive leadership” without his aggressive sex drive, and that was by…

UPDATE: Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador? His Distinguished Predecessor Hopes for the Best

By Peter Laarman

…tion in the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal provided the leverage for Vietnam to draft a sweeping comprehensive religious freedom law. But Saperstein is no cynic about these leveraged achievements: “We should remember that there are millions of people who are truly suffering and that the United States still plays a critical role in hewing to the idea that universal human rights are a real thing and not merely a ‘Western imposition’ that can e…

The End of Roe May Have Something Important to Tell Us About the Decline of Mainline Protestant Churches

By Peter Laarman

…ot to the culture of surrender and silence among leaders who ought to know better. In attempting to reckon with the entire legacy of 500 years of Protestantism—which also happens to correspond to the era of European colonization in this hemisphere—a wise friend has concluded that Protestants “never really meant it” in regard to making a full separation from the core patriarchy within Catholic teaching. My friend suggests that semper reformanda—the…

The Origin Story of the Evangelical Mindset: A Conversation with Frances FitzGerald

By Eric C. Miller

…ersion of one individual after another. And that continues to be the issue between the Christian Right and the more progressive evangelicals. Randall Balmer has famously argued that the early Christian Right was far more committed to defending segregation than to fighting abortion. You seem to agree. Could you say a bit about the significance of southern culture to modern evangelicalism? There was a major split in evangelicalism before the Civil W…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…The globe’s most powerful symbol of resistance to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was the Nation of Islam’s most famous member, boxer Muhammad Ali. In 1967, Ali refused induction in the U.S. armed forces to protest the war, and as a result, was forced to give up his heavyweight boxing crown. In 2017, even though no Muslim American critic of U.S. foreign policy has the international stature of Muhammad Ali, the very presence of Muslims in the…

MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored

By Ed Simon

…respect. Nothing could be more inaccurate, however, and in the comparison between Yixin’s final design and Savage’s thought experiment is a helpful parable about the ways in which this nation has commemorated King compared to the actual radical legacy the martyred preacher represented. From one perspective, the final choice could be seen as indicative that the United States was giving final due respect to the legacy of one of our most important h…