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Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…the military. Despite this idiosyncratic platform, Hatfield thrived. Large numbers of Hatfield admirers at Fuller Seminary, Wheaton College, and the campus ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship formed the architecture of an emerging evangelical left in the early 1970s. One InterVarsity leader at Kansas State University, citing his civil rights, anti-poverty, anti-war, and environmental record, said that Hatfield “put into words what we were t…

New York State Senator Declares War on NY Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…igns that warned that bestiality was the next step. Members of the Topeka, Kansas, family-based Westboro Baptist Church also turned up, only to be shunned by fellow protestors like NOM’s Maggie Gallagher. “We had advance notice that Westboro Baptists might try to join our march and we want to make it clear that that kind of message… is loathsome and not welcome here,” Gallagher added in a subsequent interview. Diaz said while he was against marria…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…prayer rally, and so far, he has only one taker, and it’s not surprising: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. What’s possibly more interesting than the fact that 48 sitting governors have better things to do on a Saturday in August than spend it in a sports stadium in Houston praying away America’s sins, is that none of them actually say that. None of them offer any sort of criticism of the event in their oh-so-very polite responses to Perry’s invitation….

Southern Baptists Embrace Minorities, but Not Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a few more decades, Terry Fox, senior pastor of Summit Church in Wichita, Kansas, tells One News Now that it’s gays and lesbians who owe religious people an apology for their “perversion.” “It shows [Get Equal] think[s] they have become an accepted organization in America, which I would beg to differ with them,” the pastor adds. “Any poll you would take from any region in America, including the more liberal parts of the country, they would find t…

Days of Reckoning for the Philadelphia Archdiocese

By Anthea Butler

…owed sexual abusers to remain in its ranks. The local Catholic dioceses of Kansas City and St. Louis have upped the ante by going after the organization that exists to help the abused, SNAP, subpoenaing its records of over 100,000 people who have been interviewed about sexual abuse over the years. Juxtaposing the past Holy Week against the lurid details of the abuse has been agonizing. When priests pass boys around for sex at church summer camp,…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…e depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].” America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let thi…

To Pray or Not to Pray

By Sarah Posner

…’s effort also includes staffers from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, a 24-7 prayer project of Lou Engle and others. The inspiration for the event is a “solemn assembly” of “prayer and fasting” for which the organizers cite Joel 2:12, the basis for many of Engle’s events, aimed at combatting “Antichrist legislation,” among other things. Perry knows his base, even if he’s out of step with the rest of the country. Herman Cain, thou…

Pete “Spare Tire” DeGraaf’s Operation Rescue Ties

By Sarah Posner

Via Think Progress, Republican Kansas state representative Pete DeGraaf thinks that women should be prepared to be raped in the same way that he keeps a spare tire in his car. During floor debate over a bill to require women to purchase supplemental coverage in the event that they may need an abortion, a pro-choice state representative, Republican Barbara Bollier, questioned whether women would in fact plan for a pregnancy resulting from, for exa…

Devil’s Bookmark: We Do Not Deserve God’s Anger

By Bernard Schweizer

…s one theological meditation, and we know right away that we’re not in the Kansas of normative religious discourse. After laying out Kierkegaard’s principal argument (that we are more loved by God than we will ever be able to love God, hence that we are in God’s eternal debt), Tom makes an interesting, and to my knowledge unique, move: “Doesn’t Kierkegaard’s ‘love’ sound rather like hate?” he asks. And then follows a powerful misotheistic argument…

Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

By Ira Chernus

…mself to be neither Niebuhrian nor Anabaptist. He believed that the whole “city of man” and all its inhabitants could achieve self-restraint by proper exercise of their free will. This was the great role of religion, he said—every religion taught the same essential message: the human capacity and vital need to choose self-restraint. It was equally the role of political leaders to encourage and point the way to virtuous free choice; and, to make su…