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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…he Garden of Eden had been found in Iraq, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and Ohio; at the North Pole; under the Mediterranean near Crete; in Sweden, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt.” What Paradise Lust makes clear is that the rhetorical power of words like “Eden” far transcends the actuality of any one place. Go to top Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church Kaya Oakes Counterpoint 2012 Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to t…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…ming, and Idaho, with a remaining smattering of members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and New Jersey. They of course would deny that there is any racial agenda, but it is the state legislative counterparts of these very same folks who have worked overtime to restrict voting rights, opt out of Medicaid participation under Obamacare, and wreck their states’ workers compensation programs. They are the same people who never stop tr…

Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…e that the investor class will ever use tax benefits to build factories in Ohio or West Virginia. Trump’s plan calls for a “territorial” system whereby multinational corporations based here will pay basically no tax on the repatriated earnings from foreign operations. The last time such corporations were given a tax holiday on accumulated overseas profits, they used the money to pay themselves in the form of share buybacks and dividends. The bigge…

Health Care Ruling Big Issue for Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…choice to lash out against an anti-choice group. Rep. Steve Driehaus, the Ohio Democrat who originally voted for the Stupak amendment and then incurred the wrath of the religious right by voting for the final bill, has sued the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List for defamation for claiming that he “voted for taxpayer-funded abortion.” Driehaus lost his seat to a Republican challenger last month. On the broader question of the mandate, even b…

U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”

By Paul Harvey

…monly alleged. Steven Hayward, currently a fellow at Ashland University in Ohio and previously a fellow with the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, will be the first Conservative Thought Chair. He will teach four courses in political science and environmental studies. The appointment clearly has the look of bringing in someone with well-defined op-ed positions, and Hayward has no shortage of those, as evidenced by the archive o…

Glenn Beck’s Salvation Army

By Peter Montgomery

…faith through a prism of American nationalism? Not to mention the growing number of Americans without any religious commitment? Beck tells us, “you must fall to your knees and you must reconnect with God. He is not asking you. He is commanding us as a people to get behind Him. He will right the wrongs. We will have to pay a price because we lived outside of His laws. We will have to pay a price, but every day we don’t get behind Him, the price ge…

When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For

By Nelle Smith

…ian and Ordovician periods, of the fragile fossils behind the glass in the Ohio State laboratory. When someone talked about the layers of sediment in the Grand Canyon or the evolutionary structure of a bird’s wing, I thought, “Well, they have it right. Except for that one thing, and no one’s perfect so it doesn’t really matter.” That one thing did matter. It was a chemical in the solution that would, over the next decade, dissolve my world. And he…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…and by many Americans. The president was not speaking to a labor union in Ohio or to teachers in Florida—he was speaking to a joint session of Congress, a ritualized setting that invokes all the sacredness of the democratic government of the United States of America. Americans tend to watch such speeches together—as families, in restaurants, in bars. For a few moments, a significant portion of the nation is gathered, if only via television, into…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…ent of the ISSA. Secular groups on college campuses are proliferating. The Ohio-based Secular Student Alliance, which a USA Today writer once called a “Godless Campus Crusade for Christ,” incorporated as a nonprofit in 2001. By 2007, 80 campus groups had affiliated with them, 100 by 2008, 174 by 2009, and today there are 394 SSA student groups on campuses across the country. “We have been seeing rapid growth in the past couple of years, and it sho…

Anti-Gay Republican Senator Comes Out as LGBT Ally

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman has a long track record of voting against marriage equality for gays and lesbians. He supported a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Once a potential Romney running mate, Portman has now come out as a supporter of marriage equality and the repeal of certain parts of DOMA that deny federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The catalyst f…