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#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

…) as “the American Taliban,” described Mormon fundamentalist women in “burqa-like” prairie dresses, and warned of Mormon fundamentalist oppression of women. These comparisons to Islamic extremism helped authorize the single largest protective custody seizure in American history, when Texas law enforcement and social service workers removed more than 400 children from the Yearning for Zion ranch in El Dorado, Texas. Comparisons between Mormons and…

Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…oring that goes beyond a single puerile instance of “triggering the libs.” Apart from dunking on the “biblical comma,” a number of Twitter users, including RD contributor Andrew Seidel, pointed out that the Bible contains verses that legitimate the practice of slavery. https://twitter.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1417093726346874885?s=20 The funny thing in this regard is that Strachan, an occasional contributor to Tim Keller’s The Gospel Coalition and…

“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

…a trickle, but a landslide of white evangelicals who helped to usher the real-life Biff Tannen to the seat of power. My social feeds have been full of expressions of disillusionment, like those of Yolanda Pierce and Brandi Miller here on RD. And indeed, as we see from the roundup of responses below, evangelical voices from across the spectrum have expressed everything from shock to bitterness to a public renunciation of the faith tradition they ha…

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…my Twitter feed approached Star Wars levels with astonishing rapidity. A papal encyclical arguably hadn’t been the subject of this much conjecture since Humanae Vitae in 1968, far before the dawn of social media. Conjectures piled up upon assumptions, and thousands of writers were looking forward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and appearances on talk shows and radio on the morning o…

When ‘Church Business’ Yields a Real Page Turner

By Peter Laarman

…wo years in seminary as one of a tiny handful of UU students at a Methodist-affiliated school “30 miles east of LA” (yup, that would have to be the Claremont School of Theology). In Dana’s youth she had been deeply impressed by the captivating preaching and all-around religious genius of an exceptional minister who held sway for a long and memorable time at her Arroyo Unitarian Universalist Community Church (or AUUCC, affectionately called “Awk” b…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible. Rather, Mellencamp follows the easy, just-sittin-around-playing-some-music style, favored by his producer T-Bone Burnett. The aim is for relaxed roots chic. What does it mean when a place like First African comes to serve as a stand-in for authenticity? The answer lies in the myth that undergirds much of the Americana revival. On The Tavis Smiley Show, Mellencamp discussed his experiences while recording at the church: T…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…’s Remorse or Getting What they Expected? Are evangelicals who supported Obama or have agreed to work with his administration experiencing what religion writer David Gibson has termed “buyer’s remorse,” or are they getting what they expected out of Team Obama? Recently, some Christian evangelicals have expressed their disappointment in Obama’s approach to the issue of abortion. In a USA Today column dated March 16 and titled “Mr. President, we nee…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…“If Google wants to be truly fair to its employees, it should consider extra compensation to married heterosexuals who are bitten every April 15 by the marriage-penalty tax,” spokesman Gary Schneeberger told FoxNews.com. “How is offering more money to only one group to offset a perceived inequity not a form of discrimination against those groups not fortunate enough to receive such bonuses?” Fox legal analyst Lisa Wiehl said the law could be chall…

How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For

By Patricia Miller

It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of the Affordable Care Act. When Democratic Congressman Mike Doyle asked his Energy and Commerce Committee colleague, Republican Congressman John Shimkus, exactly what mandate in the ACA he objected to, Shimkus replied, “What about men having to purchase prenatal care? I’m just … is that not correct? And should they?” Shimkus doubled down a few days later when he compar…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…ive enough to include Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs on either side of the India-Pakistan partition. As I have written elsewhere, the notion that corporate expansion can create the conditions of transcendent multicultural and pluralist unity is one of the hallmarks of neoliberalism. We can think about neoliberalism as an unevenly applied set of economic and political policies premised on the idea that free markets secure freedom and flourishing. Withi…