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When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument For Hiding Your Faith

By Jonathan Malesic

…d by your political or commercial life. I wrote that secrecy was “the only way [American Christians] can prevent the continued degradation of their religious identity.” Reviewers found the argument clever and provocative but largely unconvincing, because they thought I had misdiagnosed the real dangers to Christian identity. One reviewer argued that ordinary Christians are in fact so reluctant to appear publicly as Christians that the real threat…

In a Time of Irrational Fear and New Media: The Deadly ‘Dance Plague’ at 500

By Ed Simon

…ic well-being of your fellow citizens? At a time when a disturbingly large number of people believe in the “QAnon” conspiracy; when “pizzagate” inspired a gunman to raid a pizzeria; where “flat-Earthers” have a growing fan-base; or where people ingest Tide Pods; can we really argue that these aren’t as foolish a bit of mass hysteria as dancing oneself to death? Scottish journalist Charles Mackay contends in his 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…on the land and at the bodies of indigenous peoples clearing and killing away all that it deemed counterproductive. It also worked on immigrant bodies killing and clearing away all that could not be turned completely into whiteness. Whiteness—that form of life that is also a way of seeing life—emerged not as a fixed identity but as a striving, a goal to be accomplished, and for many an achievement to be celebrated. But not everyone has achieved t…

Can I Get Some Birth Control Pills With That Slushie?: Unpacking the Contraceptive Mandate Rollback

By Sunnivie Brydum

…at all these new bits of legislation are about punishing women and taking away their choices. If you don’t have control over your reproduction, you don’t have control over your life. By chipping away at the ability of a person to decide when/if they become pregnant, Republicans are ensuring a society where everyone won’t be equal, where half the population won’t have the tools to build the best futures for themselves and their families. It’s the r…

This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl

By Jeff Sharlet

…story of right-wing defeat and liberalism ascendant doesn’t unravel like a cheap suit on a blue dog Dem voting more money for the war. “Fundamentalism” is bigger than Ted Haggard, bigger than Jerry Falwell, bigger than the president, who, if defectors from his regime are to be believed, has lost all but a sliver of his religion. It’s bigger and older and more enduring than the political coalition currently called the “Christian Right,” soon to be…

Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…he theology of male “headship” and female submission, of which Moore has always been a staunch defender. While Moore tries to hold these beliefs in a “kinder, gentler” way, some who share his patriarchal views—views that devalue women and everyone who believes differently—will inevitably prove willing to assert them with violence. Fortunately, the “honest historical and sociological accounting of how Christian nationalism led to the January 6, 202…

A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

By Emily Manuel

…y saying that in order to be Christ-like, women need to be submissive. The way I tried to chart a way past this—and I do agree with the feminist critique of suffering—the way I try to understand it in my own framework is that our understanding suffering this way is reductive. It’s an abstract notion that takes suffering out of its context and basically treats all suffering as though it’s equivalent to freely assumed suffering by a nonviolent prote…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d standard is celibacy. Explain that. If you want to say what’s the higher way, or ideal way, you have to say according to Jesus and Paul, it’s celibacy. There’s a theological reason for that, because it’s all about the coming kingdom of God and in the resurrection there will be no marriage. If we really want to live according to the new creation, marriage is part of the old creation that’s passing away. Do you think marriage equality is inevitabl…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l and I do not want to be stoned to death. I want my country to remain the way it is now. I don’t want the state religion to change. I don’t want the way this country is run to change. I want people who accept our values.” Ireland: Marriage bill introduced; Catholic group complains about ‘same love’ posters; Presbyterian minister who praised marriage equality recants under pressure Marriage Bill 2015, legislation to implement marriage equality app…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…h a way that our body is unrecoverable by our family, dying in a traumatic way, dying after lengthy suffering, dying in a way that shocks or traumatizes loved ones, and dying in an ICU or after prolonged medical heroics is generally not preferable. At the time of this writing, the known infections of coronavirus in the U.S. have reached 205,172 with 4,540 deaths caused by the virus. These numbers change by the hour. (Italy’s death toll is currentl…