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Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…on Sunday mornings. She wasn’t driving a bus, but a dispute over a traffic ticket involving a veiled woman in France has intensified controversy over French anti-veil legislation. Regardless of whether or not you get the religion of soccer, seminarians in Rome are quite happy to put on a pair of cleats. Forget the U.S. tie with England, I’m more interested in the Redemptoris Mater win over the North American Martyrs. Back in Los Angeles, Cardinal…

What is a “Religious Progressive” Anyway?

By Daniel Schultz

…ing Bob” La Follette, who ran for the White House on the Progressive party ticket, and whose journal survives to this day, headquartered down by the Essen Haus practically in the shadow of the Wisconsin state capitol. For those of us lucky enough to grow up in the “Moscow of the Midwest,” progressive could mean generally any non-communist member of the Old Left (it is a distressing artifact of my upbringing that I can parse far better than the ave…

DNC Zombie Lie Count: 4

By Daniel Schultz

…e low on the list of voter priorities, anti-choice votes are mostly concentrated in Republican-friendly states that weren’t going to go for Democrats anyway, and, well, Democrats seem to have done quite well in recent presidential cycles. Two things about this particular version of the argument stand out to me. Sixty-four Democrats voted for the antiabortion Stupak amendment to the Affordable Care Act; 88% of those seats went to Republicans after…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…gether with the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolutions about the Confederate flag—and other examples that could be drawn from the racial reconciliation discussions within American denominations—one may ask what it means that discussions of race have again come to the forefront of theologically conservative American Christianity. The demographic changes leading to the “de-Europeanization of American Christianity” obviously have something to do w…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

…have to make ablutions and then get back to the mosque, but not to be saturated with water. Slippers or open toed shoes are not such a good idea. One of my friends told a story of losing her slipper, the flip-flop type, and leaning down to retrieve it when it slipped off, then the crowd closed up over her! Her aunt had to force an opening to get her back to surface. Don’t want to do that. I did buy a white zippered sweat shirt at the K-mart the o…

Beck & Palin Rake in the 9/11 Cash

By Becky Garrison

…ight interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will “never forget.” Unlike the “Restoring Rally” where Beck & Palin appeared gratis, Tea Partiers who want to catch Beck & Palin on September 11 at Anchorage’s Dena’iana Center will have to fork over anywhere from $73 for a basic ticket to $255 for a special meet-and-greet. Since these Fox favorites failed to designate how these f…

Niqab and Short Shorts

By Hussein Rashid

…simply male penis worship run amok. These ladies, who call themselves Niqabitches, have done a great service in showing the inherent contradictions of the law, rather than just stating them. Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the video is when the female police officer, who will be required to ticket them in the near future, asks to take a picture of them. Sarkozy’s ban may have inadvertently created the sense of “Frenchness” in a way he didn’t a…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…Congressman Tom Tancredo is running for governor on the Constitution Party ticket, endorsed by conservative blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson. Tea party groups are learning about the “biblical basis” of the Constitution from the Constitution Party-related Institute on the Constitution. The younger Phillips travels the country, to conventions and conferences sponsored by Vision Forum and its Reconstructionist allies, and is a renowned spea…

Shucking Off The ’50s. And the ’40s. And the…

By Daniel Schultz

…relate to as how they relate. After all, social conservatives, unionists, and yes, even the rich deserve political representation, though not in today’s crapulent and apparently unchanging form. A new and more just way of being together might be just the ticket to getting the American political whale off the beach. All it would take would be a charismatic and articulate leader, who, along with a thoughtful and responsible political establishment,…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…pendent one upon another for our exaltation and that our interest is inseparately connected.” This was a critique of both the Age of Individualism as well as the developing capitalistic order. These communitarian orders only intensified throughout the nineteenth century. When Mormons were driven from their first settlements in Ohio and Missouri—in part due to their refusal to participate in the economic systems in both places—they increasingly tur…