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Same-Sex Marriage: Good for Marriage, Good for the Pocketbook

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…years ago, my partner and I had a holy union ceremony in a small chapel in Georgia—a chapel, incidentally, that starred in the Stephen King movie Pet Semetary II. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize it, no one else has seen the movie either. The rehabbed chapel served as a beautiful backdrop to our happy day, despite its obscure infamy. Next month, my beloved spouse and I will travel to Canada and speak those vows to one another again, only this ti…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…to specific conceptions of what it means to be religiously and politically free. As I’ve described elsewhere, Americans pursued something called “global spiritual reform” during the Cold War. And Anna Su’s recent book, Exporting Freedom, examines the US-occupied Philippines, Japan and Iraq. “[N]o doctrinal position or school can be identified as causing the actions of jihadi groups.” Since 2009, US military chaplains have engaged with local religi…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…access to soap and water themselves. Amanda Null’s exemplary reporting on “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” documents that state’s efforts to force its residents to choose between the risk of death at work or financial destitution at home. *** As a nation our politics is imposing sacrifices and withholding solidarity. And some communities are experiencing this in a particularly painful way. The coronavirus has unmasked the legacy of struct…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…um’s name. The family has also stumped for Santorum in Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Illinois, and Missouri. When Santorum’s three-year-old daughter Bella, born with a genetic abnormality, fell ill in late January, the Duggars actually replaced the candidate on the campaign trail in Florida. Religious differences (the Duggars are Baptists who have followed the fundamentalist teachings of Bill Gothard, while Santorum is a staunch Catholic) seem bare…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…gainst a Trumpist candidate could turn today’s 66% Evangelical support into 2024’s 55%—or worse. If 2016 has taught us nothing else, of course, it’s that anything could happen. Even as I wrote this post, FBI Director James Comey launched a bombshell by announcing the agency was examining previously-unreleased emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department. Still, between the browning of Catholicism, increasing secularization, and a p…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…art. Rev. Cynthia Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia got booed, loudly, for mentioning Hillary Clinton’s name in the opening prayer. I wonder, first of all, who does this? Who heckles a prayer? I also wonder if the boo-birds had any idea who Hale is: the pioneering pastor of a 5100-member church in the strategically important Atlanta suburbs, a woman routinely included on lists of top black leaders, who’s mentored cou…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…rossroads, and looking for someone to lead them in some direction. 2018 and 2020 could be highly rewarding years for Democrats, if they’re willing to the do the hard work of exercising power through organizing the emerging coalition of women, minorities, and young voters. Again, this is simply to say using all the tools available to them. Democrats will also have to do a few things more in the mold of how we traditionally understand power, that is…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…n ends. The documentary, the Olliges proclaim, fails to make a distinction between “fringe extremists” and “solid Biblical Christians,” whose authoritarian gender structures differ from the IBLP’s in ways the Olligeses never explicate. Indeed, they admit, “sometimes extremism is simple Biblical obedience.” Sisters Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark, founders of a “biblical womanhood” ministry called Girl Defined, whose clips were featured in the docus…

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

…na, said he would like to “try and bust them out” of prison. On November 5, 2021, QAnon supporter and Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the rioters in jail—the “Patriot Wing,” as she called it. According to Greene, the prisoners are receiving “virtually no medical care, very poor food quality, and being put through reeducation which most of them are rejecting.” In perhaps the most startling declaration, the Republican Party lab…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…condition that they be exiled beyond the Mississippi River; they could be freed but denied civil and political rights; or they could be freed and given the same rights as white people despite the ways in which slavery had “depraved their faculties.” The primary problem usually cited in regard to the third option was the one that John Adams raised in critiquing Tucker’s entire emancipation scheme: “Justice to the negroes would require that they sh…