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How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ilding any more, but he does have a space—or rather, many spaces. For this latest book, he’s going on what he calls a “living room” tour. On April 9th, the day of the How To Be Here Experience in Durham, I was running late, and only found the place—a distillery-turned-events space with an unmarked address—almost by accident. I saw that the wide metal-plated door of a low-slung brick building was propped open, and on the stoop outside stood a tall…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…ess. To be sure, many evangelical businesses shoot for racial diversity or promote “color blind” office policies. That is a stark departure from the openly discriminatory practices of the past. But race is also downplayed as a determiner or dynamic in one’s life while work or, rather, attachment to a faith in the free market and the American Dream of meritocratic uplift, is made front and center. Such a religiously-infused politics regarding the e…

Leave It to Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old

By Neil J. Young

Catholics now represent the latest demographic challenge for Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions. As the Washington Post recently reported, a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found that Catholic voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Trump by a crushing 23 percent margin, 55-32. With less than a third of Catholics intending to vote for him, Trump has fallen well below the support GOP candidates typically enjoy from Catholic voters….

Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…mong a small set of evangelicals who opposed Trump from the start, but the latest rounds demonstrate an even greater propensity to rewrite history and recent events in an attempt to disconnect evangelicals from the rise of Trump. Back in February, as Trump began to win state primaries with the help of white evangelical support, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post that he had taken to calling h…

What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage

By Eric C. Miller

…he nation’s centuries-old argument over the definition of marriage. In her latest book, Leslie J. Harris, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, surveyed five types of 19th-century marriage controversy: domestic violence, divorce, polygamy, free love, and miscegenation. RD spoke with Harris about her project and what it reveals about our contemporary attempts to define, and redefine, marriage. Your book is…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…allenging the executive order, the Establishment argument advanced in this latest suit is both novel and essential. It puts under a microscope the faith-based animosity laid bare by the order, which specifically exempts refugees who are “religious minorities” in the seven Muslim-majority nations targeted by the ban (except for Syrian refugees, who are to be denied U.S. entry across the board, indefinitely). Like much of the language in the executi…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…know, a discredited ideologue paid by the American Enterprise Institute to promote public policies targeting people of color, women and the poor. His work has employed a combination of eugenics and other pseudo-science that has time and time again shown to be based on false premises, inadequate research and erroneous conclusions. He is not an academic nor a “critically acclaimed” public scholar, but a well-funded phony. His research is an insult t…

Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…ders and their followers played key roles in campaigns to abolish slavery, promote civil rights and end the Vietnam War, among others. The latest upwelling of left-leaning religious activism has accompanied the dawn of the Trump presidency. Some in the religious left are inspired by Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic leader who has been an outspoken critic of anti-immigrant policies and a champion of helping the needy. The abolitionists weren’t real…

Dear Mr. President: We Get It. You Really Love White Conservative Christians

By Sunnivie Brydum

The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s “religious freedom” memo, which is actually a pair of documents purporting to instruct all government agencies how to be appropriately deferential to those who express religious inclinations. The memo—which does not carry the weight of law—keeps pace with this administration’s fawning embrace of the worldview expressed by the white conservative…

New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…reason for the season.’ But, it does no such thing. At most, O’Reilly just promoted a bullying cultural identity of the god-fearing GOP “us” against secular-humanist Democrat “them.” Or, again, is this not just more identity flashing; more “identitarian Christianity,” courtesy of the mute frozen images of the thriving Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, and Miraculous medal industry that Roy writes about? These guys are on my team. Who’s on…