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Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…vocation and blaming the American administration for the disagreement. The progressive pro-Israel group J Street was virtually alone in recognizing the crisis as generated by the Israeli government’s provocation with the new settlement construction. While recent statements from both governments indicate that the crisis may be contained, another looms. On March 13, journalist Mark Perry published a story on Foreign Policy’s website detailing a brie…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…ng Pope on a rope Bristol Palin 1. Pray for mom’s soul 2. Buy Revolve 2010 (Biblezine) 3. Get Promise Keepers application for Levi 4. Become a True Woman 5. Baby Making Time! 6. Refill prescription for Prozac Spencer Pratt 1. Get saved again by Stephen Baldwin 2. Buy soul from eBay 3. Cancel membership in Promise Keepers 4. Send in application to Army of God 5. Drinks with Mel…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nguage like “Family Values.” Maina writes that a proposed “National Family Protection and Promotion Policy,” which could “have a significant effect on the quality of Kenyans’ lives,” has not been made public. Maina concludes: These recent developments threaten to tarnish Kenya’s reputation as a free and fair democracy guided by the rule of law, and expose a worrying move to develop laws and policies based on religion and not law, with the potentia…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…ssess how many ‘good evangelicals’ there are, how many there could be if appropriately taught (from their perspective), and how much the culture stands in opposition to their preferred theological beliefs. To me, it suggests some internal division among evangelicals and highlights the continual battles for purity and perceived rightness within the subculture. Through the survey, the sponsors are playing reporter with a mission to be a teacher, pre…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…lose personal involvement to the NAR received further scrutiny when a 2023 prayer phone call, which included the Alabama Chief Justice, resurfaced, as reported by Odette Yousef at NPR. This appearance is especially revealing of Parker’s legal and theological philosophy—which are one and the same—as he openly stated his intention to influence Alabama judges to follow his interpretation of Christianity: When the judges are restored, revival can flow…

Tea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch

By Julie Ingersoll

…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 that it’s about a lot more than taxes), the press release promoting the conference and its polling data indicated that the poll’s questions were designed to “ascertain voter attitudes on major issues and the political parties, President Obama, the…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…the Luftwaffe. The Daleks have always been evil, and the Doctor cannot comprehend why they might be pretending to be good. “You hate me,” he tells one of them (while beating it with a wrench), “you want to kill me… You are my enemy, and I am yours. You are everything I despise, the worst thing in all creation.” The Daleks’ response to his tirade is sinister: “Testimony accepted.” The Daleks on Earth—spoiler alert again!—are the scattered remnants…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…an, a member of the Mormons Building Bridges delegation offered an opening prayer through a megaphone. Then, the LDS contingent took its assigned place at the head of the parade and began to march. Some Bridges marchers worried how the crowds would react, especially given the history of LDS Church-backed opposition to same-sex marriage. “But when we turned the first corner onto 200 South Street, the crowd just roared,” says Austin Hollinbaugh, a r…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…from friends, some last-minute advice, and then of course the requests to “pray for me.” I also had one of my pre-hajj talks with my shaykh, who also gave me a list of do, persons to pray for, and some important reminders about etiquette. So I think about the Joan Osborn song. What would you ask, if you had just one question? I’ve thought about it before. And I’ve thought about it a lot. Still nothing comes to mind just yet. Last year, when a frie…

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

By Susannah Crockford

…n wearing a Trump mask. The boogaloo is a reference to a second civil war, proposed and promoted by a decentralized and primarily online network called the Boogaloo Bois. Colt pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and he faces a sentence of 51-63 months in prison, $20,000-$200,000 fine, and $1,000 in restitution. While the majority of insurrectionists were men, 72 women…