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Huckabee’s Super Tuesday Resurrection

By Ira Chernus

…every other state by large margins. (By a strange coincidence, his losing number was exactly the same in the giants, New York and California: a not so resounding eleven percent.) Before dawn, the pundits had looked at those numbers too, and Huckabee’s “resurrection” had largely disappeared from the headlines. Now you see the evangelicals, now you don’t, now you do again, now you don’t again. It was a replay, in miniature, of the 2004 election, wh…

What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?

By Bruce David Forbes

…rotected for use by those who celebrate Christmas.” And in the most recent CNN-sponsored debate among Republican presidential candidates, Wolf Blitzer’s closing Merry Christmas wish prompted two Fox News hosts to declare victory, claiming that their side had won the War on Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgUaXo9URCM Whatever the recent skirmishes, this kind of controversy is not new. American disagreements about the celebration of Chris…

Freedom’s Just Another Word…

By Ben Brazil

…member the faces pressed together in Chicago’s Grant Park— young and old, black and white, famous (Oprah!) and utterly obscure. More personally, I will think about the young Middle Eastern stranger who hugged me when CNN called the election for Obama. In the middle of an Atlanta bar, he hugged me for probably five seconds before letting go. Normally, it would have been uncomfortable. Last night, it felt just about right….

“The War is Raging for the Heart and Soul of America”: The Values Voter Identity

By Ariana Childs Graham

…ver, during the Friday morning plenary session at the Summit, Lou Dobbs of CNN encouraged the values voters not to “cloister around two or three issues,” but to broaden their scope of concern. Bishop Harry Jackson and Tony Perkins explained their vision of an expanded right wing repertoire to include immigration and environmental concerns, among others, in their book, Personal Faith, Public Policy, also available for signing at the Summit. And if…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…President Trump). Today, former George W. Bush staffer Scott Jennings told CNN’s John Berman that the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago instantly turned the former president into a martyr, galvanizing his supporters and pushing him to the lead of the pack in the early jockeying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024: If you don’t convict Donald Trump now, you have martyred Donald Trump. . . You have basically guaranteed him the nomination for the Re…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…“Francis effect” from the pope’s first year. According to Daniel Burke at CNN.com in a lengthy, mostly anecdotal piece, “there’s more way than one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the chu…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…globalizing effects of the transnational media environment. Whether it was CNN making news history with its coverage of the Hajj live from Mecca, or the recent IMAX visual masterpiece that recounted the tales of 14th century explorer Ibn Battuta, the socio-historical significance of an exclusively Muslim journey has been increasingly relayed through an audio-visual experience. But to accurately portray a phenomenon that belongs to contemporary tim…

Iowa Republicans Grade Newt’s “Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…tutional, world-view context,” Vander Plaats said. “He’s a great teacher.” CNN reports that a group of social conservatives, including the forum’s host, the Family Leader, met in Des Moines this week to strategize about alternatives to Mitt Romney. In a post back in April, I laid out why Bachmann’s education in “Christian worldview” would help her in Iowa. Christian worldview ideology holds that America is founded on Christianity, and should be go…

It’s Preposterous That We Can’t Question Nominees on Religion

By Patricia Miller

…y within you, and that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country. The odd Yoda-like phrasing of “the dogma lives loudly within you,” aside, Feinstein was asking a fair question about how the execution of Barrett’s religious beliefs would comport with her duties as a judge—a question that Barrett herself had raised, albeit in an article written some years ago. Barrett assured the…

An Unholy Holy Week: Is the All-Male Rule of the Roman Catholic Church Self-Destructing?

By Anne Eggebroten

…ristian honest people running the shop,” said Sinead O’Connor, speaking on CNN about her faith as a Catholic woman and the need for governmental change in the Church. “It seems to me that the Vatican don’t actually believe in God at all. They’re certainly not acting like they believe in a God that watches. A Christian is supposed to ask ‘What would Jesus do?’ and try to do it. Would Jesus have covered up for decades all of this abuse?” Like many o…