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Did Religion Matter in the Election? (Part I)

By Julie Ingersoll

…where most people haven’t even heard of Christian Reconstructionists (the number of people in attendance has ranged from 300 to 3000). I see religion everywhere; even in places that are ostensibly secular, just beneath the surface is a God and Country patriotism that is rooted in conservative American Protestantism and which undergirds and informs all manner of political judgments. The Brookings “full report,” only 20 pages long, is largely an…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n her efforts to soften and cover it up. That the GOP, the former party of Lincoln, the man who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, has completed a 180 degree turn, is a bizarre thing to watch. While there were more progressive episodes, the party had quickly become the home of the economic elite after the Civil War, using the “States’ Rights” rhetoric to both attract Southern and suburban White voters and, according to Richardson, to justify it…

Obama Makes Peace Offering to Gay and Lesbian Community

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ities. The “We are One” celebration will be held Sunday, January 18 at the Lincoln Memorial. Robinson is positive about his invitation saying “an indication of the new president’s commitment to being the President of ALL the people. I am humbled and overjoyed at this invitation, and it will be my great honor to be there representing the Episcopal Church, the people of New Hampshire, and all of us in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender commu…

Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?

By John Stoehr

…That’s the last time “treason was in the air,” said David Holahan. Abraham Lincoln, before he took office, “was not threatening to abolish slavery in states where it already existed,” he wrote Tuesday in the Connecticut Mirror. “Indeed, he had proclaimed that it was not in his Constitutional power to do so. No, the rebels simply didn’t like the outcome of the 1860 election. They would not abide the will of the American voters.” Given the Civil War…

QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…g numbers, but English in this case; a complex genealogical narrative that Lincoln is descended from Jesus and is also the ancestor—through his sons Willie and Tad, who died as children in reality—of the Kennedys, Trump, Patton, Elvis, and innumerable others; and the incredibly seductive notion in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that beloved celebrities are not in fact dead, but have been in hiding and walk among us. All of these exist beyond ju…

Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space

By Peter Laarman

…, the glory of the Lord was present there: e.g., when the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt summoned our better angels, when the Reconstruction Amendments were drafted, and when the caskets of Rosa Parks and John Lewis lay in state under the soaring dome. And again today, in a ceremony marked by both mourning and modesty; a ceremony in which white supremacy was explicitly repudiated multiple times, in which a dazzling young African-A…

I May Disagree with You, but I’m Pretty Sure You’re not Satan

By Joanna Brooks

…Judaism Jon Stewart: Reform Judaism Stephen Colbert: Progressive Catholic Lincoln Chaffee (Independent—Rhode Island): Episcopalianism And now a brief roll call from the Tea Party camp: Sharron Angle: Southern Baptist Sarah Palin: Assemblies of God Christine O’Donnell: nominal-Catholic-converted to evangelical Christianity-now-Catholic Glenn Beck: nominal-Catholic-converted-to-Mormonism Of course, conventional wisdom holds that the moderates are a…

The Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart

By Paul Harvey

…of us not on one Bible, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible and Abraham Lincoln’s bible last month. It’s on our money: ‘In God We Trust.’” This suggests something, too, of the composition of the lineup of advisers and consultants for the show, including Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Samuel Rodriguez, and Jim Daly (and others) from Focus on the Family. Not a big surprise, either, that as several of the commercial breaks explained, “The Bible is brou…

Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source

By David Zvi Kalman

…pread agreement that an America with no monuments—without a Rushmore, or a Lincoln Memorial, or an MLK, or 101 Washingtons in marble and bronze—would be an America that had lost itself in the heat of an acrimonious divorce from its own past. Statues are the anchor of history. To keep them is to remember; to topple them, willfully or otherwise, is to forget. But this frame, so often assumed by preservationists, abolitionists, and the people in betw…

Who Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…of Dr. Burrus’ Saving Shame, which addresses some of the points raised by Lincoln Cullen’s post.) And if the interview prompted something for you, please do share it in the comments. Once again, thank you—to Drs. Burrus and Laqueur, and to everyone else who chimed in in a non-shouty fashion. The notion that people can still get excited by talking about Augustine and/or early modern notions of sexual difference, to say nothing of the evidence tha…