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New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…isby, “have an understanding of religion that leads them to a very racist, xenophobic expression.” Next, Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshipers: The Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, described the networks and top-down leadership and messaging structure of the Christian Right. Stewart was followed by Andrew Seidel, who described prior Christian nationalist events focused on the “big lie” of a 2020 election supposedly “stolen” fro…

Heterosexual With Issues: Haggard’s Self-Hate

By Michelle Goldberg

…al.” As with Larry Craig and David Vitter, the revelation of his furtive sex life exposed the broader hypocrisy of the religious right. That was a salutary thing, but it obscured, at least to me, the awful drama of a human being undone by his own internalized homophobia. To watch Alexandra Pelosi’s deeply sad new documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard, is to realize that this story is tragedy, not farce. Pelosi first met Haggard while filming Frie…

Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News

By Anthea Butler

…ia and its head, Pope Benedict, have not been able to stem the tide of the news cycle about the sexual abuse scandal, nor has the biggest newsmaker in the scandal used media effectively to convey a coherent message to Catholics that is sincere, contrite, and constructive. Even more disturbing is the eagerness to use media in order to evangelize, while demonizing legitimate reporting on the sexual abuse stories. In late April, it was revealed that…

As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Sarah Posner

…g Christians. It’s hard to know who is taking cues from whom; last night Fox News’ Rupert Murdoch tweeted that an exception to banning Syrian refugees could be made for “proven Christians.” “Do your duty for God and country,” King told his constituents in his Cruz endorsement video, in urging them to vote for Cruz in the February 1 caucus. In case one might be inclined to dismiss the Trump-King-Cruz ideology, or the prospect that someone with this…

A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans

By Ellen Blue

…the first week. In Case of Katrina: Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans Ellen Blue Wipf & Stock August 4, 2016 My heart was breaking, too, since New Orleans is my home. My son was in the city as a first responder during the storm, and his family’s home had to be bulldozed. The fear and grief were very personal for me. Yet living and teaching in Tulsa gave me the distance that allowed some level of objectivity that UMC people living…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…it enables liberal Zionists to remain “troubled and yet committed.” Not a new reality, a new story What Hartman is trying to do in his essay is make liberal Zionists relevant again; to make them part of a conversation that now largely excludes them. He argues that liberal Zionists should simply ignore the anti-Zionist “untroubled uncommitted.” While I disagree with his assessment that much of that group traffics in antisemitism (certainly some do…

Insert Provocative Title Here: The New Media Landscape

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri

…ws. How do they do it? Walsh examines the Post’s “On Faith” section as an example – a joint venture with Newsweek that features the perspective of heavy-hitters such as Elie Wiesel, Deepak Chopra and former Iranian president Mohammad Khatani. These names are gathered in the service of providing quick answers to questions like, “Do you believe that faith can affect your health or is that a lot of new age nonsense?” It proffers the illusion of a dia…

Chabon, Safran-Foer, Krauss—the “New Yiddishists”—Don’t Speak Yiddish

By Benjamin Weiner

…using elements of Jewish life, culture, and history as both text and subtext. Sax, or whoever slapped the subheadings on his article, calls this “reverse assimilation.” It might be more accurate to say that the kind of piecemeal, whimsical, and nostalgic re-appropriation of Jewishness that occurs in the works of many of these writers is not any kind of reversal of assimilation, but its natural extension. It’s a fairly familiar ethnic American sto…

Is Eddie Long Preparing For a Confession?

By Anthea Butler

…sounds like someone trying to prepare their loved ones for some difficult news. Will New Birth congregants accept more revelations about their beloved “Bishop”? The people I encountered today were either sold out to Bishop Long, or looked a little stunned that they didn’t hear a strong denial. Doubt may begin to work on the hearts and minds of the faithful if the allegations mount, and the time to trial drags on. Finally, and perhaps most worriso…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…of what makes his almost total avoidance of the scriptural view of same-sex sexuality so odd). In Bragg’s view, the combined forces of Reformation and English translation unleashed profound political and social forces that lie at the very heart of the modern Euro-American achievement. The spirit of free enquiry led to the formation of the Royal Society and of Early Modern scientific enquiry, for instance, in an era when “religion and science” wer…