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Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…inciple that imagining creates reality has captivated modern readers,” the promo copy explains. The publisher probably didn’t expect the book to resonate quite so uncomfortably with the political moment when they chose November 8th—Election Day—as its publication date. But indeed, Donald Trump’s distinctive style has roots in the spiritual tradition of which At Your Command and The Secret are both a part. Neville was just ahead of his time. Born i…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…trying to follow the movement is that every time we write about something extreme, it’s dismissed with “well, every movement has its fringe folks.” I started to write this a week ago but had second thoughts because the whole exchange with Joan seemed like a one-off. Then today Salon.com is reporting that Tea Party Nation leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nati…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…zes certain actions or statements on the basis of sexual orientation Homosexual Adoption—Expanding laws to permit adoption by homosexual couples Sanctity of Life: Constitutional Right to Abortion—Roe v. Wade was correctly decided Protecting Infants Born Alive—Laws requiring protection for infants born alive born alive as a result of a botched abortion Prohibiting Partial-Birth Abortion—Laws banning the procedure known as partial-birth abortion Mak…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…lots of money, and a long-range plan to establish their “Father’s Kingdom” between the Turkish border and Iran. Since the time of its arrival in Northern Iraq, Servant Group International has widened its presence, establishing bases in Turkey, Liberia, Indonesia, Germany, and Norway. Can you describe how Servant Group International operates? What is especially distinctive about SGI—and its partners—is its development of a military model of evangel…

Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes

By Mary E. Hunt

…Day, when troops learn about girls in other countries, this group studied Liberia where Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 with Tawakul Karman of Yemen. They are preparing to be good citizens and leaders of a globalized world that the bishops can scarcely imagine. The crowd on the Mall in Washington will be festive on this the 100th anniversary of the group’s founding…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…is context in Africa. Lively went to Africa in March [for the “Seminar on Exposing the Homosexual Agenda,” an anti-gay conference sponsored by the US-supported Ugandan group the Family Life Network], and on April 20, a new bill was drafted. It’s important to know the timing there. Members of parliament talked about the need for a new bill, and we knew that the new bill was being drafted, although it took a long time to come out—October. A lot of i…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…go is that those pious reformers actually had the ear of Congress and of six successive chief executives—whereas faithy liberals in our era talk mainly to themselves. But there is also a telling and dolorous similarity between the two groups when it comes to people of color: enlightened whites of the 21st century continue to offer all sorts of ideas about “what needs to be done” for the sake of racial justice. But only rarely do they/we bother to…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…ntellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the pessimistic take that he powerfully explores in Between the World and Me. A parallel perspective (but one more deeply rooted in African American religious thought) emerges in Eddie Glaude’s Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves the American Soul. This work comes from the Princeton religious studies scholar known particularly for deep works on nineteenth-century history. Here, however, he looks at the present a…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…est Africa, dispossessing the indigenous populations for what would become Liberia. But Liberian Americans aren’t alone in this paradoxical relationship to Thanksgiving; African Americans who remained on this side of the Atlantic equally grapple with this contested legacy. During my adolescence, Black history programs often highlighted the roles that “forgotten” explorers such as Esteban the Moor and York played in the settlement of the western he…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…n to a related for-profit entity (an arrangement that raised eyebrows of tax experts), but that other “experts” in spreading Islamophobia draw big salaries from their nonprofits. Other frequent witnesses in Islamophobic documentaries, including Woolsey, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, have had financial stakes in companies that profit from consulting on homeland security and counter-terro…