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Community Organizing and Symbolic Electioneering

By Laura R. Olson

…ort attention spans become overwhelmed or bored with the details of public policy proposals. Thus it is appropriate to analyze much of the rhetoric that emerged from both parties’ nominating conventions in symbolic, rather than deeply substantive, terms. Both parties and their candidates design their convention presentations in ways that encourage Americans to absorb images first and policy details second (one might say a distant second). Such is…

Rabbi Lerner is Wrong on Rahm

By Hussein Rashid

…cipated and pre-emptively addressed. Someone should be there to explain to policy-makers how a new policy on, say, missile defense or the peace process or Emmanuel or whatever will likely play with relevant foreign publics and then incorporate a communications strategy before the outrage is generated. In this instance I believe Rabbi Lerner is correct in believing there is a problem with Rep. Emanuel’s selection. However, I do not believe he under…

Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama

By John Blevins

…ver two decades of the epidemic, efforts to care for those infected in the United States were strictly separated from efforts to prevent the spread of the virus; prevention and treatment were seen as two separate dimensions of one viral infection. In South Africa, the social psychologist Catherine Campbell documented the numerous challenges facing HIV prevention efforts in her book Letting Them Die: Why HIV Prevention Programs Fail. Campbell was p…

Not His House: Archbishop Oversteps, Opposes Repeal of DADT

By Eugene McMullan

…certainly entitled to this view, but his views are irrelevant to military policy. Similarly the Vatican’s shifting views on condom use would be irrelevant to a military decision to promote safer sex. Said decisions have military readiness as their guiding principle, rather than the doctrines of a particular religious sect, even if that sect is as large and influential as the Roman Catholic Church. The Archbishop is so concerned about his religio…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…between these two groups, but there are real tensions here—occasionally in policy and always in style. But the rift was out in the open this week around Ukraine. And it wasn’t pretty. When evangelicals argue politics, it isn’t just about policy. It usually comes down to accusations about how good a Christian one’s opponent is—and excommunicating them from evangelicalism. This week showed that the old establishment evangelicals still have some chop…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…13. European Parliament: LGBT issues made focus of ‘European Neighbourhood Policy’ This week the EP voted to put human rights, including LGBTI rights, “at the heart of the European Neighbourhood Policy.” The ENP organises relationships between the EU and its closest Eastern and Southern neighbours*, and has a budget of more than €15 billion (2014-2020), part of which goes to civil society. The policy was set up after the 2004 enlargement round, wi…

Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

By Daniel Schultz

…of the law. And it is pretty damn hard to argue that the administration’s policy on migrant families treats the neighbor as oneself, much less loving them. Or maybe breast-feeding mothers don’t count as neighbors? Maybe I’ve misunderstood that part of scripture. It’s striking—and again extraordinary—how little moral agency Sessions is willing to assert in his remarks. It’s Eric Holder’s fault. The Democrats should have taken the president’s DACA…

A High Wall, A Sacred Canopy, A Conversation

By Linell Cady

…y sought to counter the long history of animosity against Catholics in the United States, particularly perceptions of their purportedly divided loyalties to the U.S. and to Rome. We need to notice how readily Kennedy invoked a fundamental distinction between secular and religious affairs, and how neatly it mapped onto the public/private divide. Only within this horizon can we appreciate his unequivocal assurance that it was not religion, but his i…

Is “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?

By Patricia Miller

…tical home that tracks with the teaching of the church: Simply put, in the United States there is no “Catholic party” that could faithfully reflect the Church’s positions on the wide array of policy issues related to the Church’s teachings. We can imagine a party that opposes abortion and euthanasia while also opposing the death penalty and pre-emptive war. Or one that calls for tuition tax credits for parochial schools and also for more aggressiv…

Rick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?

By Sarah Posner

…ime trying to legislate defeat in Iraq, we hope you will attend a Pastors’ Policy Briefing that will equip you to walk point in the war of values and ideas. Rediscovering God in America-Austin is intended to remind us that excuses are not the proper strategy when facing evil and confronting enemies. Instead, we must rally godly people and seek God’s provision for the resources, the courage, and the strength necessary to win and, ultimately, glorif…