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RD10Q: How the Democrats lost the Catholic vote

By Michael Sean Winters

10 questions for Michael Sean Winters on Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How The Catholics can Save the Democrats RD: What inspired you to write Left at the Altar? What sparked your interest? MSW: For years I have been having a conversation, sometimes with others over dinner or after a provocative sermon, sometimes alone in the shower, about how my faith impacted my politics and vice-versa. Then, after the 2004 ele…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…articles—one for each youth—on protecting, respecting, and establishing a number of things. But if you had listened carefully, everything would have started to sound a bit off. The text being read was in fact not the 1989 human rights treaty but instead “A Declaration on the Rights of Children and Their Families: A Call From the Children of the World.” The subject of the event was not as the protection of children as such but the “protection of t…

Nxivm Scam Is Dead, but ‘Brainwashing’ Pseudoscience Lives On

By James T. Richardson

…roups and causes since a CIA operative, Edward Hunter, first used it in the 1950s. His writings were an effort to convince America that some powerful and heretofore unknown and horrific techniques were being used against citizens in China with the takeover by the Chinese Communist Party. That was not true, and what happened there, and with a few GIs in Korea who refused to be repatriated for a time after the Korean War ended, is easily explicable…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t Trump is still president. And that of course we all know that Trump’s the 19th president because all the others since [the 14th Amendment] have been illegal. And I’m looking around and it says 45 on his hat. Can this be? Yes, it can. We’re starting to speak of that kind of evangelical and Pentecostal church experience where many truths can be simultaneously true, right? You can be White supremacist and—like Julius, who I met at the Ashli Babbitt…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…ut, as any close observer of evangelicalism since its booming growth in the 1960s and 70s can tell you, complementarianism is a breeding ground for abusive marriages and harmful sexual ethics. Patterson didn’t emerge out of his own unique muck of sin: his theology is directly in line with what prominent evangelical pastors have been saying for years. When I first began studying the evangelical church in 2010, I discovered an entire underground net…

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

By Rebecca Moore

…beaten, suffocated, and subjected to electroshock in the anus. The February 15 arrests followed the conviction of Dennis Christensen February 6 on charges of criminal extremism. Christensen, a Danish national who has been living and working in Russia as a carpenter, was arrested in 2017 and remained incarcerated for more than 600 days throughout his trial. Christensen’s only crime, according to the charge sheet, was unlocking the worship hall. Rus…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…More Muslims participate in the fast than any other ritual. Let’s get the numbers in our head then: of the 1.3 billion Muslims, if less than half are children and even children fast, then you could say almost a billion Muslims are fasting. I don’t think we can make a case about Ramadan and what ever number of incidents that might occur due to some individual Muslims. There is no statistical corollary between fasting, Islam, Muslims and the (still…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…ns infiltrating the West from within. Or show up on the evening of November 1st, also sans costume, and tell your surprised neighbors that you are Muslim Standard Time. Or reuse what you have in your closet. Come up the driveway in a burqa, abaya, gallabiya or shalwar qamis and, when confused homeowners ask, just say, “dressed as? No, I blew a tire and need some help.” Feign outrage as you pretend to put together the prejudice. You should at least…

Obama Gets Religion in Indonesia

By Hussein Rashid

…o Obama’s support of Indonesia, as he attempts to set-up rival powers with China; Indonesia’s close relationship with Australia makes them a credible power center. Just as important, Obama recognizes that democracy is messy, painful, and not the same everywhere. Indonesia carved out its own understanding of democracy that recognizes its cultural past and desires for the future. There is a challenge of accepting the “modern” on one’s own terms, and…

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

…o minutes longer than folks on the ground. Got a question about Islam? Dial 1-877-WHY-ISLAM. The Charlotte Eagles, a Christian pro soccer club, bring their faith to the pitch. For some Muslim youth, scouting and Islam are a perfect match. Meanwhile, organizers of the World Youth Day Catholic festival in Madrid, Spain set up 200 outdoor confessionals for pilgrims. The National Geographic Channel has an upcoming documentary on child preachers. In Ch…