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New Poll Shows Religious Right and Left Look Very Different

By Daniel Schultz

…ealth care, the environment, the economy in general, and ending the war in Iraq. Conservatives love them some individualistic ethics and free-market economics, progressives want to see structural reform. Cons are for torture and progs are against it (if that makes any sense). And the two sides have very different views about church-state relations, though interestingly enough, they both agree that faith should play a role in the public square in r…

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…ss, which cheered as the senator walked into the room, wore black bands to signify opposition to the war. Students in a balcony unfurled a banner that read, “Blessed are the peacemakers. We’re with you, Mark.” Hatfield’s speech, entitled “American Democracy and American Evangelicalism—New Perspectives,” returned the favor. Fuller’s mandate, Hatfield said, was to offer a social and ethical alternative to the “Biblical Nationalists.” Fuller’s evange…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…on international Christianity. Number five on the CT list: Christians flee Iraq and Gaza: About 13,000 Christians—or one in two—left Mosul in October. In Gaza, churches where hundreds worshiped until recently are attended by less than a dozen. Historic Christian communities are becoming history. 4.) TOP TEN ONION RELIGION STORIES: “Jewish Elders Lift Ham Ban.” For instance. 5.) TOP TEN ABUSES OF RELIGION DURING THE ELECTION SEASON The Interfaith A…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…tates in 1893—a dangerous memory if there ever was one. “No one will fix a signature/ to the paper of the enemy/ with its sin of annexation/ and sale of native civil rights,” the song insists, against Hawai’ian music so sweetly melodic that tourists are unable to hear it as tears. Certainly the world leaders did not. Neither, beyond a few curious glances, did the they seem much to register the low-key grand finale of the set: a 45-minute rendition…

Obama Foe Wants His MTV

By Bill Berkowitz

…tifact.com, the ad’s charges about Obama holding multiple positions on the Iraq war are false. Hanna said that MTV—where a third of the viewers aren’t of voting age—“reaches a young demographic and it’s important for some of these people who have been uncritically supportive of Sen. Obama to come face-to-face with some of his credibility issues. And when you’re addressing a political candidate’s credibility, ridicule can be very effective.” Accord…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…eetlamp, filled with sadness for those who have died in America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and apprehension at the terrorism-related deaths to come. Our work as Americans and Muslims is far from done. The next morning, all I want to do is read news articles and listen to NPR, but the baby is grouchy, refusing food and wanting to be held. The more he grabs at my legs, the more irritated I become. Aggrieved, I take him to the other…

By the Way: The Rove of the Religious Right, A Eulogy

By Randall Balmer

…sex unions and abortion, the refusal to condemn torture or the invasion of Iraq, indifference toward global warming, support for such avatars of “family values” as Randy Cunningham, Larry Craig, David Vitter, and the thrice-married Rudy Guiliani. Not to mention the moral bankruptcy of the Bush administration itself, which the religious right helped to put in office. Weyrich, of course, bears a great deal of responsibility for the contours of the A…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…the theme of Christian suffering and murder was highlighted. Persons from Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and China—all areas where Christians are persecuted—were represented. During the second station of the Via Crucis, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister for minorities, martyred in 2011 by a group of armed men, was remembered, and later, the injustice of the death penalty around the world. I must admit, I have always liked Holy Week. It is a mom…

Taxes, War, and Religion: Queering the 1040

By Susan Henking

…le complex, is “Yes.” (See this pamphlet from prior to the outbreak of the Iraq War.) Now, I know that a lot of my taxes go exactly where I want them to go—to social programs for those less fortunate than I. I want to support that. Indeed, I would like a higher percentage of my tax dollars to accomplish just that. Juxtaposing these two visuals purporting to represent the U.S. Federal Budget 2009 Fiscal Year total outlays is, though, frightening: t…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…rvival of Christian minorities in Muslim-majority countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt over recent months and years, but not every part of the world where Muslims and Christians live together is the same. I have lived in West Africa for nearly three decades and in Nigeria for eleven of those years. Hirsi Ali, who has no particular expertise on Nigeria, has painted too lurid a picture of the current Christian-Muslim tensions in that vast…