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Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng pregnant and queer Americans from accessing needed and often urgent medical care boggles the mind. But as a veteran activist and genuinely kind and inclusive person she can, at least, credibly claim that this is what Christianity should be. Campbell has publicly supported marriage equality and even once said, “I don’t think it’s a good policy to outlaw abortion.” A statement like that is of course, a nonstarter among all but the tiniest handful…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…e-married, pro-choice New York governor, while passing over fellow-evangelical candidate Mike Huckabee. No one need ask for a more bald demonstration of prioritizing power over principle from the self-proclaimed leaders of “values voters.” Skeptics of the decline of the religious right, on the other hand, cite the huge infrastructure, resources, and reach the religious right has built over the last few decades (to take just one example, James Dobs…

Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…ianetics.” Hubbard believed, or claimed to believe, that painful psychological scars, or “engrams,” could be treated with “auditing,” wherein a patient was asked to re-experience traumatic incidents—all the way back to the “birth trauma”—until the scars were healed. His 1950 book about the process, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was an instant hit, quickly launching a nationwide movement. Reitman implies that the success of Diane…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ing extremists, because they feel safe there, they have a structure, and because they can live out their beliefs that they’re better than everyone else. It makes sense to check closely that you don’t recruit the wrong people for this. But there’s another problem when you consider a unit like the KSK: You’re asking the people in it to do extreme things (…) Officers told me ‘you can’t be surprised that there are unstable people amongst them, that’s…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…Have we not modernized Tibet? Tibetans now have electricity, roads and medical care. Aren’t Tibetans more prosperous than they were fifty years ago?” Despite these material advances—which in fact are confined almost exclusively to urban areas—most Tibetans feel as though they are second-class citizens within the PRC, lacking the same rights, privileges, and economic opportunities that the Han Chinese enjoy. They also feel as though their culture i…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…l Jewish, or not?” For survey purposes, Pew divided its respondents into a number of categories, one of which includes people of Jewish ancestry who have switched to another faith. But, Smith says, the researchers still wanted a better sense of how Jews define the borders of the community. “We thought we would put it to Jews, and see what they think.” The messiah question appeared in a part of the survey that asked “In your opinion, can a person b…

Of God, But Not God: A Methodist Minister Speaks About Church’s Refusal to Open Its Doors to LGBT

By Joel Pitney

…hink there’s a continuum. I believe science has proven that. Then came the phone call from your sister. I did not love Erin less the moment after she told me that she had fallen in love with her best friend. I couldn’t and I refuse to let the church do that. She was baptized into this church. She was raised in this church. She’s the embodiment of everything that the church stands for. Absolutely. You could not ask for a more compassionate person,…

Dirty Money in the Appalachian Church: Six Years After Deadly Coal Mine Disaster, Where Are We Now?

By Michael J. Iafrate

…ety pastoral, Bransfield has yet to join Catholic groups and others specifically calling for tougher penalties for those who violate mine safety regulations.) Truly, all of this suggests that the Diocese is very concerned about how the church’s social justice teachings would be received, not by coalfield residents, but by powerful industries in West Virginia if we were to preach them in strongly and in public. The mere association of the church wi…

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…ad poverty and we have always had disproportionate impacts from what Oxfam calls “Extreme Carbon Emission Inequality.” But we’ve never had climate change that threatened to put the New Jersey Coastline under water for a couple of centuries. I was so glad that the knock-off from the Delacroix painting of the French Revolution won the World Wildlife Federation poster contest—and is papered all over the RER (the regional train system that takes you o…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…students flooded Providence College’s ’64 center for an open-forum/protest called “Fighting for Academic Freedom.” At the meeting, a number of LGBT students made clear that they were profoundly upset by the administration’s decision. One student noted that the college’s actions had “further alienated the LGBT community”; that Lena’s decision implied that LGBT people were not “creatures of value and worth”; and that Providence had “directly defied…