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Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ditions of marginalized faith communities broadly speaking. In what is, by today’s standards, an inconceivable display of bipartisanship, a nearly unanimous Congress approved the federal RFRA in 1993 as a response to a Supreme Court decision that upheld the firing of two Native Americans who lost their jobs as drug counselors after using peyote during a religious ceremony. But modern iterations of this type of legislation (See: Indiana, Arkansas,…

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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…s of a shared faith—almost certainly could not be reproduced today. Nor could the conditions responsible for creating the Wisconsin Idea. Looking at the history, that lesson seems obvious. What was radical yesterday isn’t often radical still today, and what’s radical today doesn’t very often stay that way for long. 1. This is contested, with other towns claiming to be the birthplace of the Republican party. Ripon has it documented. 2. The family s…

‘Christianity Today’ Pro-Impeachment Editorial Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

By John Stoehr

…within groups, there is space for disagreement. That’s where Christianity Today resides, in that liminal space. People like Galli, whose occupation is serving an array of evangelical perspectives (not just white ones), know how to navigate that space. Knowing how to navigate it makes Galli a “liberal” in that he can recognize the legitimacy of various religious views without losing his sense of self. Being “liberal” in this way requires deference…

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

By Bradley Onishi

…ual physical war, but a Cold War. How did Hoover connect with Christianity Today? Christianity Today is a new magazine in the fifties. It’s just starting out. And they’re trying to connect with prominent individuals that they believe will help to bolster this new thing they’re calling “neo-evangelicalism” or “modern evangelicalism.” And they reach out to Hoover and ask him to be one of their contributors to the magazine. And Hoover does that. Hoov…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…’s Clinic. “40 Days for Prayer,” by comparison, doesn’t necessarily follow the Lenten calendar. At the Six Rivers Planned Parenthood in Humbolt County, California, today is Day 36. “Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice.”…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…ued, regardless of why they support BDS, the fanatics and fools are simply promoting a new anti-Semitism. Once Jews were singled out and held to a different standard than other peoples. Today, the Jewish State is singled out and held to a difference standard than other countries. [Emphasis added.] This is an interesting claim. The unjustified singling out of Jews which has been emblematic of anti-Semitism historically is now transferred to an enti…

Puritan Narcissus: The Myth of American Exceptionalism

By Nick Street

…e our hunger for inexpensive consumer goods drives industrial expansion in India and China, for whom the United States is the largest export customer. Most of our politicians trade on the illusion that the globalization of American (and American-style) consumerism is synonymous with democratization and social stability. In fact, stabilizing the supply of energy to the transnational economic grid has meant our investing billions to support politica…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…for his subsequent defrocking. Reports of clerics sexually abusing nuns in India and elsewhere are now common knowledge. A page-turner of a study of the incidence of allegedly gay, sexually active, but most of all duplicitous priests in high positions in the Vatican entitled In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy opens another vista. Report of the Apostolic Nuncio to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, under investigation for…

Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nt component of the “real” relationships and commitments made by believers today. Texting, blogging, tweeting, and posting on Facebook group pages and personal profiles have become, as I argue in my own forthcoming work on the topic, important modes of relational and spiritual communion that are progressively eroding an interpersonal and spiritual disconnectedness that developed through the Enlightenment and reached its zenith in the now-waning Br…

Persecuted and Persecutors

By Kate Childs Graham

…about the persecution of Christians is not acceptable to the secular media today, and sometimes they don’t even believe the facts. The report limits the definition of persecution. It suggests, “Over-use has emptied the term ‘persecution’ of meaning and so the book adheres to the Oxford English Dictionary definition which describes persecution as a malicious act motivated by religious hostility.” Persecuted and Forgetten? outlines the instances of…