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Georgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist

By Julie Ingersoll

…te legislature’s website claims he “has been called ‘the conscience of the Republican Caucus’ because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role.” That same website has a nifty little option that allows you to sort proposed bills according to their sponsors; so it was easy to get a sense of what he means by government’s biblically-defined role. He sponsored legislation to eliminate restricti…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…ved wrinkles in American political culture, the ethical foundations of the Republic remain sound. Patriarchal white supremacy is plainly not a malignancy that will be cured by hashtags, by rhetorical resistance, or by symbolic protests that basically amount to saying “Not My President.” Yet a great many of our progressive religious leaders have offered a much-too-thin rhetorical response during the year now ending — a response much too fixated on…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…is not some alleged antipathy the Pope felt for Islam. He traveled to the Republic of Turkey some short months later precisely to mend those fences. No, the real focus of papal ire is Modernity itself, the whole vast edifice of Modernism. Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy is the next (and more aggressive) installment in the Catholic story of anti-Modern retrenchment, a reaction against the Liberal ethos of Vatican II. And this, I suggest, is precisely w…

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

…rion Fund, which has ties to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Aish Hatorah, promotes its films to neoconservative and Christian-right audiences, who no doubt hear a familiar ring to the charges of Myrick et al. But despite its efforts to make these charges seem like a “moderate” view, they are far outside the mainstream. When I wrote about the Clarion Fund and its films last year, Paul Barrett, an editor at Business Week and author of American Isla…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in promoting abstinence-and fidelity-only initiatives in Uganda and has praised Nigeria—where same-sex couples can face up to 14 years in prison or stoning at the hands of Sharia courts—as “a strong role model” for other regional governments “on how to hold on to their family values despite intense international pressure.” The Human Rights Campaign has reported that FWI’s annu…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…. LLDM pastors sometimes refer to the Church as the república del salvador—republic of the savior—and to the congregants as un nuevo Israel and un pueblo—a people. That seems about right. In many ways, the church functions like a kind of landless state, with baptism as its passport. It comes equipped with dynastic royalty, a capital, and a shimmering white palace. Immigrants, too, can be citizens, wherever they may be. Back in Chattanooga, I chatt…

Progressive Evangelical Attacks AARP, Social Security

By Peter Laarman

…as Devouring Beasts that must be cut down to size in order for this great republic of ours to sail on in untroubled seas: This inter-generational issue is incredible nonsense. And the idea that anyone would support cutting these programs out of a desire to help the young is close to obscene. Among other things, the greatest cuts will almost certainly hit the young. So Ron Sider has told America’s youth that he wants to make them less secure in re…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…tribe that wants to get big things done. Bob Vander Plaats, that ambitious Republican kingmaker out in Iowa? Yep, he’s one: Vander Plaats is Christian Reformed to his core, just like Secretary DeVos. Oh, and on the race thing: Let’s just say that Dutch Calvinism has never been especially kind to people of African descent. The once-mighty Dutch Republic grew rich from trade, with trade in black bodies forming a large part of it. The extent of slave…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…al gravity: a request for healing from HIV, a prayer for a decent boyfriend, a supplication for financial blessing, and, from a viewer in the Czech Republic, a prayer that “that all the Jewish people will know Jesus.”…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…e claims made against it were that it did not recognize secular authority, promoted intolerance and violence, and demanded blind obedience to its ancient doctrines. These are all charges currently made against Islam as a religion. In the late 19th century, the prominent nativist Josiah Strong wrote, “It has been shown that it is the avowed purpose of Romanists to ‘make America Catholic.’ It has been shown that this could not be done without bringi…