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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…an’t come to even overlapping consensus because our society is changing, a change reflected in our politics. Once Americans as a society have come to terms with the changes they are experiencing, the faith talk will regain its potency. It will serve to bridge divides. That will always be a contested process, so it’s not necessarily good news, depending on who gains the upper hand. But it will happen, sooner or later. In the meantime, we live throu…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…Ostendorf. “We won an election, but we didn’t automatically win any of the policy and structural changes we were working for. Did some progressives really think everything was going to get fixed in Washington? This never happens! Our present situation compels a reexamination of how we do longer-term political organizing in our country,” suggests Ostendorf. When I spoke with Gaddy last Fall, I was visiting states like Idaho, Montana, and Washington…

Lou Engle’s Bizarro Esther

By Katie Toth

…to come together to “release the pain,” a process through which political change will be possible. At face value, Engle seems to be calling on some conservative Christian reconfiguration of girl power—uniting women so they can refine their political voice. Problem is, for these Esthers power is only realized through the humiliation of themselves and their peers. The biblical Esther doesn’t really do any ‘pain-releasing.’ She’s busy using her cle…

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

By Eric C. Miller

…ng, until it starts having consequential and problematic effects on public policy—until it starts dictating our foreign policy toward Israel or our response to climate change or our public school curricula, for instance. At that point, when clear principles of science are denied, or when important political leaders are making official decisions according to their belief in the imminent return of Christ—that’s when problems arise. And I do think th…

Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical: Nothing Happens

By Eric Reitan

…eligious progressives want to play. Nor do I think society benefits when exchanges between theists and atheists are conceived in terms of the analogy of a sporting match. So let’s change the analogy. Suppose I were a scientist developing an astronomical theory. Suppose a rival scientist with a different theory points out a problem with my theory—some observation it can’t account for. I think about his concern and realize he’s right. And so I sit d…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…oters will go the polls on Sunday, February 28 to vote on a constitutional change ostensibly meant to eliminate a tax penalty for married couples, but the change will also enshrine a man-woman definition of marriage, and discrimination against same-sex couples, in the Constitution. The initiative is backed by the Swiss Christian Democratic People’s Party. Tunisia: LGBT Advocacy Group Wins Right To Operate Shams, a group that advocates for decrimin…

In Praise of Gay Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o serve as a leader in an LDS congregation in San Francisco.” All of these changes have been made because LGBT people were faithful to an institution that has historically despised and rejected them. Progress comes from making changes within, not protesting outside the doors. I completely understand the mindset of those who would question my membership in a club where many of its members wish to eliminate me altogether. I feel exactly the same way…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…iety. Anthropology has a complex relationship to colonialism and to social change. What do you think the place of ethnography is in social change? Both during my earlier work among North African immigrants and later with CBST, I believed that anthropologists’ work carries the commitment and the promise of offering visibility to groups and cultural traditions that are treated as marginal or even stigmatized among the majority. If you were to imagin…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…o not know the extent to which evangelicalism is capable of a thorough sea change, I do know that even if that day is coming, there’s something more than a little off-putting about the gleeful amens shouted by more progressive evangelicals whenever one of their own changes his or her mind and decides to renounce their continued role in perpetuating a culture that harms and kills innocent people. Shouldn’t the recognition of that harm lead rather t…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…rump and after that toxic party interaction, George knew it was time for a change. His departure wasn’t a rebuke of his church, but of a faith culture that denies its brutal legacy while indoctrinating its followers to perpetuate it. “Three years ago, I was really bought into the evangelical narrative and I didn’t even see it,” he admits. That began to change when, two years ago, his church transformed its policies to fully include the LBGTQ commu…