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What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed groups,” despite most of these critics being right-wing Christians: “At times, faith-based groups have injected themselves into a polarizing national debate over immigration policies. Although many praise their work to help migrants, some critics say it encourages more people to come to the U.S.” To be sure, faith-based groups do a disproportionate amount of work in areas like disaster relief and refugee resettlement in the United States, but t…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…pogroms afterwards. A few weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with a leader of New York City’s Bangladeshi Hindu community, who was extremely resistant to making the connection between the persecution of his fellow Hindus in Bangladesh and the persecution of Muslims in India. He insisted, “Please don’t tell me about India. I only want to focus on my people, Hindus in Bangladesh.” I suggested that there was folly in focusing on the minorities in Bangla…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…a known part of the Reichsbürger scene since he held a talk at the Swiss “world web forum” in 2019, during which he claimed that Germany wasn’t a sovereign state but a “commercial structure.” Reuss claimed that foreign powers—namely “the international financial interest” which includes the Rothschild family—had in fact instigated World War I in order to “end the monarchy,” a narrative that manages to push several prominent antisemitic conspiracy…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…Mr. Kushner was proposing. It was a religious one. Welcome to the strange new world of wedding celebrants. When I was ordained as a Presbyterian minister more than 30 years ago, the only wedding officiants were public officials and members of the clergy. Couples seeking a religious ceremony had to sidle up to someone like me and ask if I’d be willing to oblige. As long as one or both of them professed Christian faith, I was generally willing. Sti…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…a violent insurrection at the Capitol two years ago. And yet, neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post thought this newsworthy enough for their front pages on the following day. The reasons for this are manifold: Increasing numbness in the face of rising fascism due to the onslaught of unhinged news stories emerging out of the Republican camp; a false understanding of “neutrality” as the equidistance between the two parties (no matter h…

Christian Voter Guide: Jesus is Wrong on the Issues and Wrong for America

By Daniel Schultz

…hen they were unjust, and subjected himself to them meekly. Not exactly a crusading culture warrior, then. Is truthful;—High marks here. Jesus never was a liar. “Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No”; anything more than this comes from the evil one.” Hates covetousness.—Again, Jesus does well by this measure, having a strong anti-covetousness platform. On the other hand, he does have an explicitly redistributionist economic program. No word on h…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n primary candidate for New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District, tweeted: “New day, new narrative.” Fox News contributor David Webb said: “Look for what’s missing and what doesn’t add up.” His colleague, Jesse Waters, meanwhile claimed it was outrageous that Pelosi’s attacker had been charged with kidnapping and attempted murder—and that if he hadn’t attacked a member of the Democratic elite, he would already have been out on bail. “A lot of peopl…

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

…on onto Meet the Press and to CNN. He’s preached it in USA Today and inThe New York Times. More famously, he has brought into Catholicism several members of the conservative elite. McCloskey personally baptized Judge Robert Bork, political pundits Robert Novak and Lawrence Kudlow, publisher Alfred Regnery, financier Lewis Lehrman, and US Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, whose baptismal sponsor was another senator, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. In…

How the Christian Right Can Save America from Donald Trump

By Sarah Posner

…writing glowing accounts of Trump’s appeal to evangelicals, is out with a new Trump interview, during which the real estate mogul utters many words about the Bible but, once again, doesn’t appear to actually know much about it—or what evangelicals believe about it. “There’s so many things that you can learn from it (The Bible). Proverbs, the chapter ‘never bend to envy,’” Trump told Brody, who didn’t press him to cite chapter and verse. (Brody do…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…it means to be an American. That’s purposeful; for supposedly being about New England Puritans and their (semi) apocryphal meal with local Indians, Thanksgiving only became a national holiday following the Civil War. Central to the day are less events that happened in the 17th century than the ever-regenerative work of constructing what exactly it means to be an American. Like anything religious at its core, Thanksgiving invites skepticism as wel…