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United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference meets every four years to vote on issues central to the future of the church. This year the conference is meeting in Tampa, Florida—and some hot-button issues are on the agenda—among them the call for the church to divest from firms doing business in Israel. On Tuesday the conference voted against a motion that the church divest from three international firms that have business interests related to…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…? It certainly counts as a wishful pre-disposition to believe. Second, the United States has always been far more religious than its peer nations, with a far more fervent belief in prayer, in divine intervention, in faith healing, and all the rest. On these points, we in the United States are outliers among the developed world. So, all that to say—yes, I think we are more credulous than other people. Not uniquely credulous, but more so and in more…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will announce tomorrow that it is launching “Operation Inclusion,” following efforts by some local government officials to interpret last week’s Supreme Court decision in Greece v. Galloway to permit them to sponsor Christian-only prayer at government meetings. Calling the Greece decision “misguided,” AU’s executive director the Rev. Barry Lynn said it could subject millions of Americans to…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…ins feels very strongly that when the Equal Rights Amendment failed in the United States, a lot of its advocates didn’t go away, they just went to the United Nations,” said Scott Loveless, Executive Director of the World Family Policy Center. “It appeared to be a pretty concerted effort to shape customary international law into, essentially, the Equal Rights Amendment.” Soon, Wilkins began working with conservative activist Allan Carlson to stage…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ncil. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20 models bills of Project Blitz with the bills they track and she found that 71 bills introduced in 2018 (or carried over from the 2017 state legislative session) are based on the model bills or are similar in intent. Of the bills tracked by Americans United [see bill descriptions in side bar]: 23 fall under the Nati…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…ny progressives have argued since the failure of the Oslo accords that the United States couldn’t have played a positive role in Mideast peacemaking, it is even harder to see how it could do so now. While it is clear from the recent presidential campaign that an Obama administration will be more ideologically inclined in this direction, it is also difficult to imagine the stresses it will have to contend with to reach that point: withdrawing Ameri…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…s argument is twofold. First, Archbishop Gomez reframes the history of the United States of America. He pulls the focus away from the original thirteen colonies, to include all of the territory that forms part of the United States. He explains (with not-so-subtle reference to our current political landscape), “Long before the Boston Tea Party, Catholic Missionaries were celebrating the holy Mass on the soil of this continent.” In summary, he argue…

The Problem with the Latest Predictions for ‘the Rise of the Religious Left’

By Hollis Phelps

…o serve to correct public opinion about Christianity and Christians in the United States. According to a 2017 study by Pew Research Center, Americans already have an overall favorable view of most religious groups in the United States. Indeed, positive views for all religious groups represented in the study had increased since 2014, with the exception of evangelical Christians, which remained the same. This isn’t surprising, given the religious ma…

Biden’s New Domestic Terrorism Strategy Addresses Trump’s Omission of White Nationalism, But Fails to Address Targeting of Black and Brown Americans

By Sara Kamali

…ic terrorism. It is commendable, if anticlimactic, that a President of the United States is recognizing, reporting, and calling for the assessment of white nationalist terrorism in the United States, particularly in the wake of the January 6th insurrection. It’s likely that the former president’s base, many of whom shared the concerns and beliefs of those being targeted by this strategy, would have taken exception to such an effort. However, this…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…ry to Mohler’s pronouncements many of us privilege a pluralist view of the United States and resist attempts to construct it as an intolerant Christian country. In addition, his fear of a post-Christian country assumes that the United States has its origins in Christianity; an assumption that is just as historically problematic as arguing that yoga has its origins in Hinduism and thus belongs to it. If anything should terrify us, it should be the…