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Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…” Asked what they thought the purpose of the 2020 State of Theology Survey might be, and whether it might be geared toward driving evangelicals to the polls, Whitehead replied, “I do think there is a particular narrative that they are trying to push with this research. That is made clear with the ‘true or false’ buttons. Whether getting evangelicals to the polls is the ultimate aim I cannot say, but it does seem plausible to me.” Djupe also opined…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…IVF. The ruling is based on an 1872 law regarding the “unlawful killing of minors,” claiming that under it, embryos should be considered children. The aim of this Christian movement, represented in this case by their avatars on the Alabama Supreme Court, is crystal clear according to lawyer, fellow RD-correspondent, and expert on the legal forces of the broader Christian Right, Andrew Seidel: The goal is to impose a conservative Christian religion…

Tea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch

By Julie Ingersoll

…ction, they distributed “6 million voter guides, 8 million mail pieces, 15 million phone calls, 500,000 doors knocked on by volunteers, and radio advertising covering 56 congressional districts and 22 U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races,” they are now (apparently as I write this) surveying voters to learn “who went to the polls and why.” Instructive for those of us who follow the influence of the religious right on the tea party movement (arguing…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…el McKee_____________ After over a year wandering in the wilderness of a semi-hiatus, Doctor Who fans have at last reached the promised land: a new season, with a new actor in the lead role (Matt Smith) and a new executive producer, Steven Moffat. The last few years have been a great time for the longest-running science fiction show in television history. Though older episodes in the continuing saga of the time-traveling Doctor have generally been…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…LGBT rights as well as long-standing efforts by members of more LGBT welcoming denominations in Utah who had not been given an equal share of the limelight. “It was a great sign of forgiveness,” said Jason Monson, a straight LDS father of two from Provo, “that everyone was so welcoming when they might have just as easily, and justifiably felt like we did not belong at the front of their parade.” The true impact of the Mormons Building Bridges eff…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…t about it before. And I’ve thought about it a lot. Still nothing comes to mind just yet. Last year, when a friend of mine who lives in Madinah solicited prayers from people before her fourth or fifth hajj, (because, as she said, “It really works”), I asked for a house by the beach with the mortgage already paid! I mean, if you’re going to ask, might as well be specific, right? Well, you ought to know how I feel about the idea of God accepting req…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…t they were told was stolen. Others were explicitly trying to start a war, mimicking the justification of the Revolutionary War of rebellion against tyranny. Those with the most responsibility have the most resources and power, and so have faced the least repercussions. The narratives multiply, the stories mutate, on both a personal level of individual rioters as to what they did and why, and on a national level of what is happening and who is res…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…at, and I apologize for being part of such a mean gesture. In fact I had a phone conversation with a prominent American imam last night—in Islam, we say subhanallah at such coincidences—and he mentioned in passing how offended many white American Muslims were by this very kind of gesture. On reflection, I can see why. I don’t find racial insensitivity humorous directed at me. The least I can do is not support it. And the least I can do is the leas…

The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

By Benjamin Weiner

…ucation. As the CJP allocation represents over 90% of the BJE budget ($1.2 million out of a reported $1.4 million), the BJE is now facing almost certain closure. Growing up a Boston Jew, I was only vaguely aware of the alphabet soup that was the organized community. One winter Sunday a year, we would gather in the ballroom of the Park Plaza hotel, where we kids would serve as runners, hustling pledge cards between the phone banks and the clerks in…

‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

By Matt Recla

…n the Caribbean. As I watch the drama unfold in Haiti, and feel it here in Miami, the home of the largest Haitian Diaspora in the United States, I cannot help but think of another earthquake, another country. In 1976 a 7.5 earthquake devastated Guatemala, leaving 23,000 dead and over 50,000 injured. My husband, a child at the time, has told me of the silence, the fear that followed this catastrophe. As a scholar of religion, I have often wondered…