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Christian Nationalists Didn’t Seek to Desecrate the Capitol But to Purify It

By Adam Willems

…ects, they are the effect of this broader narrative about D.C. as a sacred center of the nation where everything good has happened—but now all this evil is happening. One of the ways I’ve been thinking about this since January 6 is by inspecting the way we talk about ‘unmarked Protestantism’ in a lot of American religious history. (Tracy Fessenden coined this term.) Has the big good-versus-evil-salvation-of-America narrative become so detached fro…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…at the church seeking shelter, and were subsequently sent to a convention center downtown. However, by Tuesday afternoon, multiple network and cable news reports were showing evacuees arriving, as the downtown George R. Brown Convention Center was at capacity. In a city with dozens and dozens of churches, some quite large, why was Osteen and Lakewood Church singled out in such a prominent way? It seems as though every negative assumption about or…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…pushing Hillary to follow through on her promise to get Mother Teresa “her center for babies.” This was “no small feat,” as Belz notes, “in a city that was known then for its inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy.” But as Clinton describes in Living History, she put the muscle of the White House behind the initiative, “cutting red tape with the housing authorities and human services officials.” The Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children opened in 19…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…milies of 9/11 victims—is divided amongst itself. Some are in favor of the center, others are opposed. There’s certainly no consensus. Whereas almost no Jews wanted a convent at a death camp. But more importantly, are these “sensitivities” even analogous? Is the unreflective, knee-jerk Islamophobia of a few families (and the posturing of cynical politicians) really the same as the feelings of Holocaust survivors and their families not wanting a cr…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…s—once and for all, with help from the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. As important as it is to tell the dark truth about conversion therapy, it is just a important that Alex’s story has a happy ending: she makes a courageous escape, finds allies, fights a historic court battle to go home under the protection of the law as a gay teenager, reunites with her now accepting family, fi…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…times the mass of our sun, about 55 million light years from Earth, at the center of a supergiant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87. If you have a similar attitude to mine, then you were perhaps struck by the strange sublimity of this photograph. There are, it must be said, certain theological implications to that celestial wonderment. I speak not of some claim that the black hole confirms any literal or conventional belief in a deity. God need…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…. I suggested to my friend that we query the powerful and well-funded LGBT Center to see whether they might be receptive to some kind of partnering with the church. Without even asking the right kind of due diligence questions, however, Center personnel brushed off the query with a “don’t worry, we’ve got it covered” response. A typical response, I am sorry to say. White-run institutions like the Center can prate all they want about their commitme…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…d by the European Center for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, the Christian Right legal organization created by televangelist Pat Robertson. From Rosie Scammell at the Religion News Service: While the Vatican and the Italian hierarchy opposed the bill, the removal of a “stepchild adoption” clause was seen as a significant triumph for the Catholic Church. The measure was set to allow a person to adopt their…

RDGenerations: Youth and Liberal Religion

By Lucia Hulsether

…ping mall. We saw the worship room that’s in the film and the World Prayer Center where people who log onto computers all over the world can have their prayer requests scroll across screens on the wall—somewhat like the “soul scrolls” in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. But the point at hand is that they had state-of-the-art playgrounds for little kids, and basketball courts, and a large building solely for youth. In that building we s…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ew takeaways that may challenge some of the narratives that prevail in the center and on the Left about America’s Christian nationalist movement. The first is that any Democrats who take comfort from the thought that demography is destiny are probably deluding themselves. The received wisdom on the center-left is that America’s homegrown authoritarian faction is an affair largely concentrated on an older, whiter base that is just now exiting the s…