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Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…led list of players: The Christian Right Republican Party—Palin wing Conservative evangelicals Republican Party—moderate wing Moderate evangelicals Democratic Party—centrists Left-leaning evangelicals and people of faith who oppose reproductive choice and gay rights Democratic Party—moderates The Obama administration Progressive evangelicals Left-leaning evangelicals and people of faith who support reproductive choice and gay rights Progressive pe…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…nd them. The controversial document that resulted from a summer morning conflict in 1843, yet continues to influence a now-global church, then, demonstrates modern Mormonism’s continual struggle with prophetic authority, scriptural inerrancy, and gendered realities. More broadly, it reveals the constant tension religions must negotiate: maintaining some form of religious consistency while also adapting to new cultural expectations. Plural marriage…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…ise. Many have begun to criticize the lack of coverage or attention to the floods in Louisiana. These are 1,000-year floods, covering an area larger than Delaware, affecting more than 40,000 homes. This is sure to be an ongoing disaster—triggering transportation, housing, public health, and financial crises. So, many ask: “Where is the media coverage, the public awareness, the national attention?” In launching these critiques, some have contrasted…

Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese

By Andrew Aghapour

…inherently good. I guess ultimately we all have to be not only very self-reflective, but also reflective of the larger context in which we’re behaving. At some level, the message of my book is a call to readers to ask, “Where am I placed? Where did my moral system come from, and how do I feel about that?” While researching this book, was there anything that surprised you? I’m a sociologist, so I see everything as socially constructed: your system…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

…re’s been nothing so dramatic to punch up the storyline as the anti-Mormon flare-ups we witnessed late last summer and fall. In fact, while evangelical Christians continue to opt for Santorum as the not-Romney, there is little solid data that isolates anti-Mormonism as the cause: region, social conservatism, and economic class also drive the narrative. As the race moves past Super Tuesday, the real story is the grind that the 2012 race is becoming…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…phobia and other forms of hate are normalized does worry me. Even as Trump flip-flops on his promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Stephen Bannon’s appointment to the post of Chief Strategist and rumors of Frank Gaffney‘s appointment as National Security Advisor certainly do not herald a brighter day. And even though the president-elect now demands that his racist and homophobic supporters “Stop it!”, th…

The Banality of Bernie

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd he knew the dangers as well as the advantages of the computer. The 17th floor looked nothing like the two floors above it. They were technologically primitive, and they were not subject to Bernie’s oversight. In a word, there was no paper trail on the 17th floor. If there is a connection to be made to Hitler or to the Final Solution, then here it is. Bureaucracies make the establishment of responsibility very difficult indeed. Bureaucracies mak…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…on’s landmark support for transgender students as an “absurd” and “clear invasion of privacy.” If Price can’t acknowledge that a transgender girl should be able to use the ladies’ room like all her girlfriends, how could he possibly understand the life-saving impact of the Affordable Care Act’s trans-inclusive provisions? For the first time under the ACA, transgender Americans could not be denied gender-affirming health care simply because they we…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h place, in which ethically serious and politically engaged persons from a variety of religious and political confessions can reflect on the possibilities of such religious rapprochement. RD’s own Katie Lofton has observed, with her singular acerbic wit, that Religion Dispatches represents a movement she describes as “Religious Studies gone public”; there is something of great substance, and great moment, in that astute observation. As William…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…rk Film Festival, along with about 700 other attendees. I wish I had their phone numbers; even the disgusted dozens who walked out halfway through. I’d like to call them at 3:00 a.m. and ask what they are thinking about, what they are dreaming, if indeed they are sleeping. I need some therapy. This is one messed-up film. The beauty of Antichrist is in distinct contrast to many of von Trier’s previous films. From the early 1990s until now, his film…