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When Conservatives Turn Revolutionary

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nough, and fairly easy to understand. Finally, and most importantly, the most destabilizing revolutions of all have been conducted in the name of freedom and enforced liberty. That’s precisely how the French Revolution, and Napoleon’s later stewardship of it, went awry. The reason that Napoleon is still such a vexed and vexing historical figure may be found here. He changed the map and he changed the political ideology of European politics. There…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mporary world seems hell-bent on giving the papacy ammunition. The capitalist system seems as morally bankrupt as its financial institutions currently are. Wars are declared unilaterally, despite the ineffectual condemnation of the world community (and the Vatican), then drag on endlessly without respite or a clear sense of the purpose. The Terror You Shall Always Have With You… Catholic anti-Modernism, at its best, seems grounded in a poignant se…

The Idiot Play

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y,/ To the last syllable of recorded time;/ And all our yesterday’s have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!/ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing….

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

By Bradley Onishi

…tianity Today? Christianity Today is a new magazine in the fifties. It’s just starting out. And they’re trying to connect with prominent individuals that they believe will help to bolster this new thing they’re calling “neo-evangelicalism” or “modern evangelicalism.” And they reach out to Hoover and ask him to be one of their contributors to the magazine. And Hoover does that. Hoover writes for Christianity Today beginning in the fifties. And one…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…ficiently developed, the Protestant spirit also infused early insurrectionist stirrings among the Africans enslaved on these shores. Read David Walker’s powerful Appeal (1829) and then tell me if you can find anything in it that a John Milton or a Thomas Hooker or a John Adams could not have written. The same Protestant spirit of righteous resistance imbues every word spoken or written by freedom fighters Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and H…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…Rouge, Colorado City, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Tucson, and Minneapolis) “weird,” while suggesting that the ad campaign is actually a strategy to pave the way for Mitt Romney’s 2012 run. Unlikely. (And anyone who thinks Mormons are placing all their eggs in Mitt Romney’s basket hasn’t heard of Jon Huntsman.) Meanwhile, progressive Church members themselves are trying to reconcile the new mormon.org image with…

American Christmas (Shopping) and the Protestant Reformation

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…church with a Catholic one is that Jesus is not depicted on the Cross in most Protestant churches. There is just a Cross, an empty Cross, on the wall. The broken, bleeding body, so prominent in most Catholic cruciforms, looks quite jarring when you come to it from the perspective of this Protestant emptiness. So, Roman Catholics leave the Baby Jesus out of the manger, whereas American Protestants seem especially obsessed with that symbol of primal…

Atheists Gone Wild

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ight have a case in suggesting that our money should not say “In God We Trust,” just as you may have a case if you object to the Oath of Allegiance’s Cold War invocation of (mono)theistic faith as a central tenet of US citizenship. But the cost of victory in such cases would be immense, and the Pyrrhic value of such victories almost non-existent. In fact, I would prefer to see Newdow drop the suit about the Oath of Office altogether, decouple the…

Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…e, Isaac is now officially at hurricane strength, and on a path toward the Louisiana coast—seven years to the day after Katrina’s devastating assault. And while the media licks its chops at the very newsworthy possibility of a GOP convention blown to bits by an act of God, our thoughts are with those who anxiously await Isaac’s landfall. We thought this would be a good time to bring back some of our finest writers’ meditations on the highs—and lo…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…rch of Christ minister, Turner is the executive director of Faith Aloud, a St. Louis-based nonprofit devoted to destigmatizing abortion. They were also responsible for the “Jesus Never Shamed Women” buttons. For the past four years, Faith Aloud’s “40 Days for Life” has been used in some capacity by over 200 (mostly independent) abortion facilities around the country, yet anti-abortion conservatives only took notice when a Planned Parenthood in no…