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When Conservatives Turn Revolutionary

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ities, several historical lessons emerge a bit more clearly. First and foremo*]}*st, people clearly do not buy the rhetoric of “liberation” when their lands continue to be occupied by foreign troops. It’s silly to think they would do otherwise. Second, and equally important, the rhetoric of “liberty and equality” (not to mention “democracy” or “fraternity”) rings hollow in such times to all but the tinniest of occupiers’ ears. In the face of such hypo…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…enly gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson, was confirmed). The code word for most of that uproar is “anti-Modern.” So the irony of Catholic anti-Modernism multiplies, morphs, turns back on itself. The logic of Catholic anti-Modernism, as it were, is capitalist to the core. The Vatican looks at the world map and analyzes new growth markets. When one source of material resources dries up, the empire marches determinedly on. From this perspective, Chin…

The Idiot Play

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ovince and Sadr City last month and with further casualties (this is where most of our military surge was directed, by the way) give the lie to any notion that we can secure our military gains for an extended period of time anywhere, unless we are willing to commit half a million troops to an indefinite military occupation. We can invade, sweep, cleanse — and have done so repeatedly, which is maddening. But it is not our mission to police. And abs…

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

By Bradley Onishi

…tin Princeton U. Press Feb, 2023 Bradley Onishi: J. Edgar Hoover is a name most Americans will be familiar with as the first leader of the FBI. He is known to have been aggressive, invasive, and ubiquitous; somebody who was everywhere and felt free to interrogate anyone he liked. But they won’t know much about his faith. Dr. Lerone Martin: Hoover was raised in the Presbyterian church and he talked a great deal in his childhood diary and his adulth…

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

By Peter Laarman

…byterian stronghold amid the crags and moors of their windswept aerie; and most significant for the American experience, English Nonconformists (note the term) struggling hard with questions of polity and ultimately breaking with what they viewed as a half-reformed Anglicanism. Christopher Hill remains the historian par excellence on the political significance of dissent among the English. Read him if you have the time, but absolutely do read Kevi…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…at a young, hip, progressive, yuppy, affluent, intellectual, artistic, and most likely pro-gay couple decides to join the church in an average LDS ward. Will their experience in the church, today, reflect the open, progressive, liberal, almo*]}*st artsy sentiments and values reflected in this marketing campaign? Will they stay? Or will they feel that a bit of a ‘bait and switch’ has happened?” Is this who we are? Dehlin concludes that the new Mormon…

American Christmas (Shopping) and the Protestant Reformation

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t 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 prim…

Atheists Gone Wild

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…in such cases would be immense, and the Pyrrhic value of such victories almo*]}*st non-existent. In fact, I would prefer to see Newdow drop the suit about the Oath of Office altogether, decouple the question about the Oath and the presence of Rick Warren, and then to object to Warren’s seating on very different grounds. I worry that the Left that Newdow and his ilk represents is so fundamentally allergic to religious belief, and so theologically non-…

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

By The Editors

…r ANTHONY B. PINN • Sep 18, 2008 While it is a natural impulse to ask, the most important question is not where God is in all of this (whether raised as matter of faith or as critique from a posture of disbelief). Rather, the proper question is how can I act in such a way as to represent the best of my convictions (whether framed as the consequences of religion or whether more secular in origin)? Our theologizing Hurricane Ike and other disasters,…

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

By Kiera Feldman

…pped her “40 Days for Life” sign against her leg as she read. “You could almo*]}*st see the wheels turning in her head,” remembered Kromenaker. Arriving at the final prayer, the woman put down her sign and left. “Reasonable Christian people, when reading these prayers, understand that these are honest prayers for women,” noted Reverend Rebecca Turner, who wrote the prayers that RRWC had posted in their windows—what she calls “40 Days for Praye…