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We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…young people to accept their own bodies and to avoid the pretension “to cancel out sexual difference because one no longer knows how to deal with it”. In Section 293, the pope reports that his bishops discussed their treatment of folks who are in civil—not sacramental—marriages or simply co-habitating. The bishops decided that it is preferable to try to make nice-nice with those couples only because they might eventually be enticed to convert the…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ly 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that he was there to see if he cou…

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…nce he was five years old. During a meeting of the Evangelical Church Alliance, which Schenck chairs, one member says guns are “in our DNA.” Another offers, “if we take guns away, people are just going to kill people with something else.” At a lunch meeting at a Capitol Hill restaurant, during which Schenck is attempting to persuade two close colleagues on the gun issue, Troy Newman, president of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, argues wi…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…asure that passed here in 2008; the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, an offshoot of the American Principles Project, founded by Manhattan Declaration author Robert George; the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Personhood USA, the national organization pushing ballot measures declaring fertilized eggs persons; and Champion the Vote, the get-out-the-vote project of United in Purpose, the non-profit organization funded…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…re Americans would be attracted to, appreciate and consider careers in science (the number is decreasing annually). I bet we’d have more productive conversation among students and leaders of science and religion around the many profound issues in our nation that engage both: abortion, medical care, stem cells, homosexuality, and genomic research. The battle rhetoric would fade and, more than likely, movies like Expelled wouldn’t be made in the fir…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…but rather its “noise,” as Buchanan put it, “the din of the vox populi,” pooh-poohed by The Family. I love that din, a ruckus of sharp words, sharp elbows and strong ideas. American fundamentalism preaches harmony and unity, not just one God but one ideology, and, ultimately, one ruling class. American democracy, I argue, should be a cacophony. The irony is that fundamentalist intellectuals came to a deeper understanding of that noise during their…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…the debate about Left Behind. Among evangelical Christians who like the franchise —which doesn’t include all of them—there are real differences about what the film should be. In this way, Left Behind represents a big question about the persistent problem of the market for faith-and-family films. The past few years have seen attempt after attempt to do what Lalonde wants to do: make quality movies that please evangelicals and also appeal to a wider…

How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse

By Jonathan Dudley

…dy. Some policies supported by the anti-abortion movement, then, actually increase the abortion rate by shutting down access to contraception. Whatever option they choose, evangelical leaders who criticize their community’s support for Trump must be clear why that support was not an entirely logical reaction to their own stated beliefs about abortion. Otherwise, the main legacy of their movement will not be changing the cultural consensus on abort…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…compounded by yielding to an evangelical panic over repealing DADT. The increased numbers of evangelical chaplains began getting media attention around 2005, when the constitutional and morale problems arising out of aggressive evangelizing in the military began coming to light. (Anne C. Loveland, author of American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military, 1942-1993, dates the trend back to the Vietnam War.) New York Times, 2005: There are also growi…

Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

By Hussein Rashid

…y the same rate over the span of a year. Perhaps one can argue it is the concentrated violence in a traditionally peaceful area, unlike Iraq which is an active war zone. In 2002, Gujarat state in India, the home of Gandhi, saw riots over the span of two months that resulted in the death of over 2000 Muslims and the displacement of over 150,000 people. The rate there was also 30 people/day. The complicity of Indian state actors, notably Narendra Mo…