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‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…d religious identities are at the center of current debates over US-Israel policy and campus protest culture. Allen egregiously misquotes Genesis 12:3 by retrojecting “Israel”—a name given to Jacob later on in Genesis 32:28—into the story of God’s call to Abram and promise to make him into a great nation. In doing so, Allen extends Genesis 12 from a blessing or curse on a single person, Abram, to a covenant that affects all of his descendants and…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…had an enormous, if indirect and underrecognized, role [in] shaping public policy.” If the message of apocalyptic demonization is not clear, try reading one of the novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in their Left Behind series of Christian apocalyptic novels which have sold more than 70 million copies. Writing in the American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg blasts the authors because they: promote conspiracy theories; they demonize proponents o…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…an Events in 1944, their goal was to further a non-interventionist foreign policy to promote a lasting peace after the war ended. That may not sound like it has much to do with the postwar conservative movement. But as Human Events developed, it focused increasingly on national sovereignty, limited government, and anti-communism. Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and Transformation of American Politics Nicole Hemmer University of Pennsyl…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…umber of pedophilia cases in the Church. The Vatican issued a long overdue policy Monday that bishops must report sex abuse cases, but it did not impose a zero tolerance policy similar to what is in place in the U.S. Focus on the Family was for the possibility of a gay Supreme Court nominee before they were against it. Televangelist Joyce Meyer condemned the Uganda Anti-Gay Bill despite her similar condemnation of homosexuality. In Nepal, more you…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…t it was America’s best and brightest, not its troglodytes, who designed a policy of “uplift via removal” to deal with what they regarded as the grave challenge posed by “degraded” Native Americans and African Americans living in close proximity to whites. Guyatt’s book is divided into three sections, each treating a major theme or phase in the white reformers’ efforts. He devotes four of his chapters to “degradation,” three to “amalgamation,” and…

Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture? [UPDATED]

By Joanna Brooks

…ney or President Barack Obama about torture during Monday night’s “foreign policy debate”—but someone should have. Because recently disclosed Romney campaign documents are raising new questions about the candidate’s position, and the recent appointment of a Spokane, Washington LDS bishop who in his professional life as a psychologist pioneered so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” after 9/11 has raised new questions about whether Mormonism…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…s case also exposed the various means employed by Moscow to influence U.S. policy. A sentencing memo filed on April 19, 2019 in this case describes a technique known as “spot and assess,” in which Russians who may be only loosely affiliated with the Kremlin set up private meetings to gauge who might have influence in the U.S. government and how to approach them. While the focus of the memo is on Butina’s connections to pro-gun organizations (most…

The Tragedy of Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ous tradition but, at the same time, are implicated in questions of public policy. The three disputes I mentioned at the beginning of this article all fall into this category, even if they differ substantially in other respects. In the Wheaton case (as in related cases brought by other religious entities, including the Little Sisters of the Poor and Notre Dame), the college’s belief is that filing a form with the government indicating its oppositi…

McCain’s Prosperity Preacher

By Sarah Posner

…iated with his efforts to inject his eschatology into Washington’s foreign policy debate, with his calls for a preemptive military strike against Iran and opposition to any land concessions by the Israelis to the Palestinians. (Parsley also serves as a Regional Director of CUFI.) But to really understand what keeps these figures so popular with their ample followings—and therefore attractive to vote-hungry candidates—one needs to look beyond the o…

King as Inspiration, Not Guide

By William D. Hart

…dless of race require a kind of work that is more intensely conceptual and policy-driven than the passion-play-like high drama of civil rights-style marches. The pragmatic realities of the problems themselves and the realities of the present historical conjuncture demand this kind of work. Black bodies in public spaces are still subversive, but not in the ways that made the civil rights marches so effective. Black insurgents into public/white spac…