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The Family Research Council’s Mistaken Identity

By Sarah Posner

…s.” The report called Christian Identity “the most unifying theology for a number of these diverse groups and one widely adhered to by white supremacists. It is a belief system that provides its members with a religious basis for racism and an ideology that condones violence against non-Aryans.” If I were to do some hair-trigger analysis here, I might think Tony Perkins was defending neo-Nazis, Aryan Nation, and the Klan. Maybe Perkins should have…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…hat magnitude remains unimaginable to this very day. For some, the only way to cope with that reality is to create a new one.…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…nd X: In choosing those who are to represent the episcopal Conferences of one or a number of nations and the religious institutes in the Synod of Bishops, great attention should be paid not just to the general knowledge and wisdom of individuals, but also to their theoretical and practical knowledge of the matter which the Synod is to take up. The Supreme Pontiff may, if he so chooses, increase the number of members of the Synod of Bishops by addi…

Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…advice they sought, rather than cowardice or giving into political correctness. Anyone who has not seen the original cartoons can view them after a few mouse clicks, so contextual appreciation of Klausen’s book is not compromised. The main problem is not over the images—whether viewed as Satanic or silly—but with the lingering fear many Americans have of Islam. Fundamentalist Christian apocalyptic scenarios cast Muslims in the service of the Anti…

As Gaza Burns, Jews Disagree, Protest & Pray

By Sam Kestenbaum

…ccupy Wall Street, Not Palestine” button pinned to her jacket. At the microphone Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesperson from Naturei Karta, a group of anti-Zionist Haredi Jews, greets the crowd with Salaam Aleikum, and calls Israel an “abomination” whose “very existence is an offence to the Almighty.” The crowd cheers. “Zionism is a rebellion against God, a base nationalism that has no space or place in the Jewish religion,” he says. “We oppose the o…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…trade in black bodies forming a large part of it. The extent of slavery in New Netherland (renamed New York and New Jersey after 1664) shocked many when historians brought it to light beginning in the 1970s. And then there are those doughty Afrikaner cousins of ours, whose rigidly racist apartheid ideology was forged by people calling themselves voortrekkers—pioneers—driven to form a separate and righteous society out in the veld. Like the Afrikan…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es, which he said has helped him in the process of coming out. The Deseret News headlined its report, “God loves every single person, speakers tell LGBT Mormons at Affirmation conference.” It quotes “LDS intellectual” Terryl Givens saying that “we are all confronted with feelings of alienation, of isolation, of not being understood, of not being witnessed.” Added Fiona Givens, “There isn’t a single person in this room not carrying a cross. We’re a…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…sociologist Glenn M. Vernon published an article titled, “The Religious ‘Nones’: A Neglected Category” that brought the idea of “Nones” forward as an analytic category that religion scholars could, and should, explore. Vernon focused on the response of “none” or “none of the above” to the survey question, “What religion are you?” As it does today, his description of the term included “atheists, agnostics, those with ‘no preference,’ [and] those wi…

Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?

By Eric C. Miller

…ysicians, two insurance moguls, two lumber tycoons, and two grain commissioners, one of whom was also the President of the Board of Trade. The church paid its pastor, E. P. Goodwin, a $5,000 salary—more than ten times the earnings of the average worker—and there were other fringe benefits besides, including lucrative investment opportunities. One member at First Congregational, who was also a leading man on the Board of Trade, advised Goodwin to i…

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

By Mary E. Hunt

…ve use of papal power, points to the fundamental problem at hand. It’s the need for new ecclesial structures rooted in a realistic theology that would mitigate power inequities and begin to reshape the global Catholic Church into safer, more participatory communities with the full participation of women and lay men in every facet of church life. To that end, the undisputed highlights of the meeting were the three presentations by women. Some of th…