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Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…Obama promised on the campaign trail in a July 2008 speech in Zanesville, Ohio, to end religious discrimination by recipients of federal faith-based money. After that speech, the campaign got pushback from evangelical leaders, who insisted that they wouldn’t even want federal money if they couldn’t engage in what they call “co-religionist hiring,” that is, the ability to only hire applicants of the same faith, or to refuse employment to someone,…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…lleghenies with towers of steel and glass arising at the confluence of the Ohio, the homes clinging to the mountainside evoking the ancient dwellings on the slopes in western Jerusalem, or the seven eternal hills of Rome. In my book, I ascribe some of that charged energy to Pittsburgh’s unique “spirit of place,” the sense that its geography has not just tangible material ramifications, but a more numinous significance as well. Scholar Chiara Letiz…

Toni Morrison, Prophet of America’s Demons (1931-2019)

By Ed Simon

…merica is a graveyard that is as haunted as surely as former slave Sethe’s Ohio homestead is haunted by the ghost of her murdered daughter in Beloved. In many ways Morrison was a gothic writer, but then all of the greatest American authors are. How could it be otherwise in a land forcefully stolen and then populated with the descendants of the violently kidnapped? From Jonathan Edwards invoking the terrors of hell-fire in his 1741 sermon “Sinners…

Romney Prepping for Evangelical Dance

By Sarah Posner

…was once deemed out of the mainstream by Republicans in his home state of Ohio). A move to the center would “kill him,” said Deal Hudson of Catholic Advocate, who thinks that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is too liberal. All this talk is reminiscent of 2008, when dissatisfied conservatives were looking for ways to make John McCain more palatable. The base was thrilled — no, electrified — when McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mat…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ust Roeder. Last week, when members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan and Ohio recently were arrested with plans to kill a random policeman and then plant Improvised Explosive Devices in the area where the funeral would be held to kill hundreds more, this was a terrorist plot of the sort that would impress Shi’ite militia and al Qaeda activists in Iraq. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by Morris Dees, which has closely watched the rise of…

The Dangerous Fact About QAnon Believers That Reporters Fail to Grasp

By John Stoehr

…f political reporting in which a journalist from the Times parachutes into Ohio or Arizona (or wherever) to talk to Donald Trump’s supporters while they’re eating. Most don’t know, or have forgotten, this genre is a result of regime change. After the liberal order established under Roosevelt in the 1930s gave way to the conservative order established under Reagan in the 1980s, a regime in which we are living still, the press corps got into the hab…

West Virginia Mayor Enlists Churches To Pray Away Drugs and Crime

By Sarah Posner

…tington is a city of about 350,000 that sits near the state’s borders with Ohio and Kentucky. The local news coverage of Williams’ effort is notable for the absence of any discussion of the constitutional concerns raised by a mayor’s enlistment of explicitly Christian prayer as a “silver bullet” for a grave and challenging public safety and health problem. Williams, a Democrat, tells local news channel WSAZ that the video “isn’t meant to be politi…

LGBT Mormons Ask in Historic Temple: “If they could just see us, don’t you think they would change their minds?”

By Joanna Brooks

…on of LGBT Mormons—for their annual gathering, held this year at Kirtland, Ohio, where early members of the Mormon movement built a community and Mormonism’s first temple in the 1830s. Attending the conference were hundreds of LGBT Mormons ranging in age from their early 20s through their 70s: gay men, mostly, but lesbians too; white, Asian-American, Latino, African-American, and Native Hawaiian. Many served LDS proselytizing missions, raised chi…

Romney Baffled by Own Party

By Sarah Posner

Yesterday’s big campaign trail news was from Ohio, where upon being questioned by a local reporter about the Blunt amendment the Senate is set to vote on today, Mitt Romney managed to utter Republican heresy: I’m not for the bill. But, look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, husband and wife, I’m not going there. Not getting into questions about contrace…

Will the Real Progressive Christians Please Stand Up?

By Delwin Brown

…nity arises. As evidence, they cite the electoral victories in places like Ohio, where progressive groups from the moderate left to the moderate right joined forces to challenge and undo the longstanding hegemony of the extreme Christian right. Fundamental and comprehensive change, say the accommodators, will most likely come in small “compromising” steps, over frustrating spans of time. Both the purists and the accommodators make valid points. An…