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Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…, I know: these hints and gestures are baby steps at best. But they remain significant in the context of a ginormous institution that was self-asphyxiating for so many decades. Plus Francis is slowly but surely reshaping the College of Cardinals—the ultimate “electoral college” from a Catholic point of view. 5. No peace without justice. There is no sign of diminishing energy, and in fact there is strengthening determination everywhere, to move for…

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

By Bradley Onishi

…oover did that in a couple ways. The first thing he did was to have agents sign what he called a “law enforcement pledge” that said in part that agents would commit to being “soldiers” who would “wage vigorous warfare against the enemies of my country, of its laws, and of its principles.” They were also meant to act as “ministers.” And Hoover makes sure that his agents are cultivated this way by putting them through a series of religious exercises…

The Tebow Superbowl Ad: Offense, Defense, or Interference?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…fudging aside, the rights of free expression in a business context do have significant limits. Gimme that Pro-Bowl Religion Probing those limits is the question, and the essence of the game. It is a close-run thing and a hard line to draw, to be sure. Here’s how you don’t draw it. You don’t cry foul based on what you have heard, then seek to exclude the speech before it is spoken because you don’t agree with what you think may be said. A pro-choic…

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…opponent, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson. But his election is not a good sign. As the New York Times mentions, this is the first time a vice president has not been elected president of the USCCB since the 1960s. What the Times fails to mention is that it happened then because the vice president was quite old and would have retired as bishop in the middle of his term. The rejection of a Bishop Kicanas is essentially unparalleled. As Thomas Reese…

Religious Freedom is Impossible… Compared to What?

By Austin Dacey

…on rests on the principled difference between religious claims that impose significant costs or risks of harm to others and those that don’t. If that’s cultural chauvinism, sign me up. Even if the Court’s dissenters and their liberal supporters were driven by a tacit enmity towards a particular form of religion, we could ask whether their conclusions, and the framework they presuppose, are legally sound. However, Sullivan is not simply making a te…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…looks around the pumpkin patch on Halloween night and says, “there’s not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” Of course, sincerity and truth are quite different things, and Linus favors the wrong one. Trump lies constantly, but to his die-hard supporters, he tells it like it is. He doesn’t mince words; his bluntness absolves him of hypocrisy. Linus is even something of a chauvinist. When Sally expresses doubt abou…

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition

By Daniel Silliman

…tor of the Texas church since 2007, has supported Donald Trump without any sign of hesitation. He continues, unwavering, through scandal after scandal. His church of 12,000 even has a Trump-inspired song, a hymn to “Make America Great Again.” But the First Baptist Church of Dallas didn’t just get political. It’s been that way for a long time. Monday marked an anniversary for the church. It was founded on July 30, 1868, by three men and eight women…

Sarah Palin to Tour Israel, Christian-Style

By Anthea Butler

…gh diplomatic channels, but through a Christian tour operator. That choice signals to me that this trip, although guaranteed to get much press for her meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is not only about her political credentials but her religious stature. With Palin’s weekend visit to India and the Israel, speculation will continue as to whether she will be a candidate in 2012. Given that her schedule is beginning to fill in the next…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…. NRCAT offers practical tools for ending torture in US Prisons, including signing the national statement against prolonged solitary confinement. NRCAT and AFSC, as part of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, are also in the process of releasing a letter for religious leaders to sign that is addressed to Governor Brown calling on him to honor the five core demands of the hunger strikers. Why should religious communities stand in solid…

Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry

By Andrew L. Seidel

…-people and indoctrinating schoolchildren, all in 24 hours. Is this just a sign of a retrograde legislature or is something more going on here? Passing these two bills might be simply coincidence, but the genesis of the creationism bill is telling. Rep. Mary Bentley preached a creationist sermon on the House floor (see below) urging her colleagues to pass the anti-trans youth bill on March 10. The very next day, March 11, she sponsored and propose…