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The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

There is an old Hungarian Jewish proverb that says, “antisemitism is when gentiles hate Jews too much.” The underlying assumption, of course, is that the gentile always hates the Jew; antisemitism* is only when that hatred becomes overt. Most American Jews today may not quite believe that, but the assumption surfaces again when cases of Jew-hatred arise—and especially in the weaponizing of accusations of antisemitism. In a piercing essay on the c…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

One might legitimately ask: “Why, of all things, a piece devoted to Satanists?” Good question. First off, while the year in religion didn’t go too well, as Daniel Schultz points out in his wrap-up, it was the Satanists who managed to give us a couple of the brighter spots. Second, despite the temptation to assume that Satanism is essentially a sophisticated group of pranksters with a flair for the dramatic–”part of an incredibly elaborate mockume…

Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith

By Daniel Schultz

Elizabeth Warren spoke about her faith at a recent CNN town hall meeting (as candidates do). Her answer was great, and it’s worth taking a minute to understand why. First, let’s roll the clip: https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1107841344553316352 I am an admitted Warren fan, though I haven’t backed her in the 2020 primary. But this is first of all a master class in taking an off-message question and steering the subject back to what the candidat…

Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

By Daniel Schultz

Elizabeth Warren was on CNN the other day, and did a crackerjack job expressing how her faith and politics fit together. Meanwhile, South Bend Indiana mayor, first openly gay candidate running in a major party’s primary, and general whiz-kid Pete Buttigieg was on The View, doing…not so well. https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1109213160555184128 Let’s get a couple of quick points out of the way before we get down to the central issue. First, towa…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

In the weeks since Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) allegedly antisemitic tweets about U.S. support of Israel sparked a firestorm of controversy, the Democratic Party has taken great pains to distance itself from perceived antisemitism. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a resolution opposing antisemitism to the House floor, in plain rebuke of Omar’s comments. However, the response to the disproportionate criticism Omar received suggests that many fee…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

Russian National Maria Butina, 30, was sentenced to an 18-month prison term Friday in Washington after failing to register as a foreign agent for conspiring to infiltrate conservative U.S. political circles for the Kremlin. In December, Butina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to act as a Russian agent in the U.S. without registering with the Justice Department. While her case has been handled separately from the Mueller investigation, th…

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

By Chrissy Stroop

Last December, I waxed optimistic about the accomplishments and potential of the exvangelical community and movement in a year-end retrospective here on RD. Then this January, exvies exploded onto the scene with the #ExposeChristianSchools campaign I launched in response to the defensiveness of Vice President Mike Pence and movement conservatives over criticism of second lady Karen Pence for returning to her job as an art teacher at an anti-LGBTQ…

Prosperity Gospel Prayers Aren’t Sufficient to Save Hurricane Victims

By Tony Keddie

In between advertising her own books and promoting her rock star husband’s albums, Trump’s Prosperity Gospel confidant, Paula White-Cain, took a moment to acknowledge those affected by Hurricane Dorian. White-Cain tweeted a link to the evangelical pastor Greg Laurie’s Fox News article defending “prayer” as a legitimate response to mass shootings and hurricanes. White-Cain agreed with Laurie that “Prayer makes a powerful difference.” This is surpr…

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

By Greg Carey

This week Union Theological Seminary in New York created a social media stir. The tweet began: “Today in chapel, we confessed to plants.” https://twitter.com/UnionSeminary/status/1174000941667880960 Surely the seminary administrators anticipated a backlash. The responses ranged from snarky dismissal to substantive theological critique. Some respondents accused the seminary of promoting idolatry on the premise that confessing to plants inherently…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

By Rachel C. Schneider

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what happened that day. But as I watched the storming of the capital—replete with white supremacy symbols, Christian symbols, Trump iconography, and images of weapons—I had an overwhelming sense, not of shock, but of inevitability. Nothing I was seeing reflec…