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How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…ng was prompted as much by federal interventions into the racist admission policies of evangelical colleges as it was by more moral concerns like abortion. Other scholars, meanwhile, have highlighted race’s centrality to American church history, noting that the evangelical involvement in the institution of enslavement as well as the ardent opposition of evangelical institutions to movements for racial justice have made evangelicalism central contr…

Does Secularism Have a Role in Egyptian Struggle?

By Austin Dacey

…ciety groups have been consistent in opposing the Brotherhood’s theocratic policies while at the same time asserting its members’ rights as citizens in the face of the onslaughts of the security forces. From a human rights perspective, Islamists are entitled to full participation in democratic politics on grounds of freedom of association, and the state has no right to intervene in religious affairs. Likewise, Egyptians of all faiths and none are…

The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

…for lower taxes, a more aggressive stance against Communism, and domestic policies that advanced traditional social values. To them, Congress was the bastion of liberal Democrats and liberal values, and the executive branch was for conservatives. The Federalist Society, a club founded the year Reagan took office, was an important driver of this new ideology. In Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (Oxford,…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…lism you can still on the whole take it to mean 19th-century laissez faire policies which are associated with conservatism, with the right. And in America probably since the New Deal it’s become synonymous with the left of center. So it’s almost come to mean the opposite. Yet it can also mean free-spirited, liberal-minded, and so on. I mean I think one thing that perhaps both meanings have in common—the laissez faire and the American progressive l…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…marriages would be eternal. The same is not possible under current Church policies for living LDS women who have been widowed or civilly divorced. This may seem like a technicality. But when combined with the fact that polygamy has never been renounced as a doctrinal principle by the Church and that it remains on the books in the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of LDS scripture, it fosters a belief among many mainstream LDS people that polygamous…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…counters. When Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators objecting to government policies confront the Israeli police, for example, they often spit at them, as they did this past October when they took to the streets of Jerusalem to protest the opening of a local parking lot on the Sabbath. Other speakers descried the growing xenophobia in Israeli Jewish society, especially among the young; one cited a recent Israeli public opinion poll that found that…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…assistance to women seeking abortions. The new law draws from Jim Crow-era policies that “deputize” private citizens as law enforcement. Those of us who have fought back against the reign of white anti-abortion terror are gutted and enraged by SB 8. For decades, pro-abortion Black feminists have unapologetically stood for Roe and on-demand access to abortion as a human right. We’ve publicly hailed the liberating effect our own abortions had on our…

History in the Making: Religion, Race and Gender in the Presidential Election

By Peter J. Paris

…ory will not be one for African Americans alone but for all Americans. His policies will not privilege African Americans but will address the needs of all Americans. As King’s accomplishments in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 fulfilled the promise implicit in the Emancipation Proclamation, so Barack Obama’s election to the presidency will begin the process of fulfilling the substance of King’s vision of a world comm…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…’s Workshop (Metropolitan, 2006) documents Bush/Cheney building their Iraq policies on Central American precedents from this era. 4) Robertson fuses with News Corp. Robertson built what was once the nation’s fourth-largest television network—partly through claiming tax breaks as a religious ministry. Then he cashed in when Rupert Murdoch acquired what was then known as The Family Channel. This story has two morals: The first is that Fox News and R…

Asymmetrical Polarization and Common Ground

By Daniel Schultz

…of Republicans induces the party to negotiate within its ranks, producing policies that not long ago would have attracted the support of a dozen Senate Republicans. Galston and Mann note that this polarization is reflected in a lack of ideological overlap in Congress. Even the most conservative Democrat is more liberal than the most liberal Republican, a stark division made clear in support for health care reform. Political polarization is also r…