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Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…e depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].” America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let thi…

On Religion, Abortion, and Politics: Dr. George Tiller’s Christian Ethics

By Ed Knudson

…d apart from them in self-righteous condemnation, respecting their own capacity for moral judgment. Natural Law: Theology Alert! Natural law is the shorthand term for the idea that God puts into the minds of all human beings a sense of right and wrong. The law revealed in the Bible is summarized in the ten commandments or in Jesus’ words: “love God and neighbor.” But even if a person has not heard of the Bible, according to natural law theory, he…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…nning in the late nineteenth century, white Christian farmers in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Southwest Missouri mounted populist protests against the encroachment of industrial capitalism. Aligning with the Populist Party, many of these hardworking rural and small-town folks felt menaced by big East-coast banks and creeping national corporations. They weren’t opposed to money, business or success per se; rather, they wanted to ensure th…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…age of the reelection campaign of George W. Bush in What’s the Matter with Kansas? is praised by Blumenthal as “penetrating, refreshing, and even pathbreaking.” According to Blumenthal, however, it was “incomplete” because Frank failed to note that the “appeal of Bush’s born-again experience” was the way his “escape from freedom” resonated with Bush’s conservative evangelical supporters. Their “powerful emotional affinity” for candidate Bush thus…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

Last week when Scott Roeder, the murderer of Wichita Kansas abortion clinic provider Dr. George Tiller, had his day in court, he spent much of his rambling self-defense quoting the words of another abortion clinic assassin, Reverend Paul Hill. In the 1990s my own research had brought me into conversation with others in the inner circle in which Hill and Roeder were at that time involved. So it was a chilling experience for me to realize that this…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…now defunct journal founded by Tom Frank, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?. Tom’s already done a better job than I could of taking apart Palin’s pander, ugly in its implication that those who don’t live in small towns—80% of America, according to the U.N.—are somehow morally deficient, and insulting in its disregard for the actual facts of life in the very small towns ill-served by the policies championed by Palin. So I’ll stick to Peg, an…

Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

By Kaya Oakes

…f Georgia Walker, the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest ordained in Kansas City, she was informed of her excommunication by certified letter in 2015 because of her participation in what the diocese referred to as a “simulated ordination.” In spite of the advocacy of groups like the Women’s Ordination Conference, little progress has been made on the issue. It’s understandable, therefore, why many people initially reacted to the idea of Catholic wom…

Bishops’ Attempt to Deny Communion to Biden Will Backfire Even More Spectacularly Than Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…ntent familiar, the impact minimal. Then came Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, KS, who chairs the Pro-Life Activities Committee of the USCCB. He put a finer point on it all arguing: “The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic, and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching… When he says he is a devout Catholic, we bishops have the responsibility to correct him. Although people have gi…

Perry v. Romney Showdown Tonight

By Joanna Brooks

…surgency.” Perry nabbed an endorsement from Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas and former Senator. Perry continues to work his appeal to religious conservatives, dancing with the folks who brought him this far. (As Sarah Posner reported here at RD Tuesday, Perry appointed as co-chairs of his Florida campaign notable evangelical Christians including John Stemberger of the Florida Family Policy Council, he who claimed that Mitt Romney was “not Mo…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…. Bush in 2006, this law aims to prevent pickets by members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which links military deaths to America’s tolerance of homosexuality. According to Westboro Baptists, America tolerates homosexuality, as evidenced in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case that overturned anti-sodomy laws. Once the United States, in defiance of God’s proclamation that homosexuality is “an abomination,” made sam…