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Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…eup at the CLC’s annual conference changed as well: Republican speakers outnumbered Democrats 6-1 from 1988 until 1999. The speaker selections (a literal Who’s Who of the religious right) said much about Land and demonstrated his growing influence among the conservative Christian elite. Not satisfied with the relationship between between the Republican Party and the religious right, Land said in March 1998: “The go-along, get-along strategy is de…

David Barton: Falling from Grace?

By Paul Harvey

…ribes the motivations of his critics to either jealousy (because his books sell so well, especially in the homeschooler market), or “liberalism,” a term that evidently takes in everyone who dares take issue with him, from evangelical historians to “deconstructionists.” I weighed in here on Barton both last year and more recently here—in the latter, expressing my skepticism of whether refutations would have any effect on someone whose work was basi…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…site says that Rep. Sandy Adams is scheduled to attend. Strang made a hard-sell pitch for help raising $1.5 million to fund Jackson’s campaign in Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Maryland, and Virginia, saying he was seeking 100 people to commit to giving or raising $1,500 each. Jackson said he had just gotten a contribution from Pat Robertson, and that James Robison had also kicked in. Also on the call, at least at the…

What Romney Didn’t Tell You about Mormonism at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…nking. What other “we’s” and “us’s” got left out when the RNC scripted its sell of Mitt Romney? I was among the many Mormons who were happy to see and hear three rank-and-file Mormon people take the podium at the convention talking in a familiar Mormon way about a familiar Mormon ethic of compassionate service; especially after so much hype and caricature of the faith. (See also Mary Barker’s analysis of the Romney testimonials here at RD.) But as…

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

By Peter Laarman

…when it comes to what we inherit from strong-hostile Christianity: we must sell all that we have to keep Jesus. One last question. Your participation in your son Trevor’s same-sex wedding ceremony certainly drew some venomous comments recently. Did these bother you? They sure would have bothered me. I decided I wasn’t going to read them. My wife did read them and called me in tears over the way people attacked our son and family. (She’s used to th…

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…relationships serve, here, to signify the whole humdrum world wherein you sell me an apple and I give you a unit of our common currency. Or where I say things using words that I know you know, because I hope that you will thereby understand what I’m getting at. Dollars for apples, words for comprehension, individuals doing stuff, and common mediums of exchange making the whole system move along. Authority doesn’t really enter into it. My dollar’s…

When Straight People Tell Gay Stories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sation with Jack, I learned that his book sold 25,000 copies, and is still selling in a revised and expanded edition that came out in 2009. By comparison, my book has struggled to sell 5,000 copies. My point, and I do have one, is this: the media does not care when a gay or lesbian person says that gay and lesbian people are not sick, sinful, or deviant. Such assertions are viewed if not with derision, at least with suspicion. They only care when…

Bagels Aren’t Enough

By Jay Michaelson

…increasingly wealthy people—are stuck. Few people want the product they’re selling, and the product that people want, they don’t want to sell. Conceivably, the Jewish community could experience an “evangelical turn,” by which I mean a shift to more spiritual, experiential form of religious expression. But I’m not sure. American Jews, on average, are highly educated, highly skeptical, and more than a little awkward. It’s hard to see Jewish Millenia…

Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…ide the colonial town of Valladolid, small knick-knack shops line the road selling everything from gaudy jewelry to carved wooden miniature pyramids. And there beside the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Judas Tadeo a gargantuan lawn statue of La Santa Muerte—Mexico’s patroness saint of death—looms over the rest. After Mexican children go trick-or-treating on Halloween they will celebrate the “Days of the Dead,” corresponding with the Catholic holidays…

Romney Tax Secret Revealed—and It’s About Religion [UPDATED]

By Joanna Brooks

…Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The trust allowed the Church to hold, sell, or reinvest the assets (without paying capital gains tax) and the Romneys to collect a stream of cash payments from the assets—like an annuity—at a rate of 8% each year. Meanwhile, as the annuities were paid out, principal declined, leaving the charity with less than the original donation—down from $750,000 in 2001 to $421,203 at the end of 2011. In the Bloomberg arti…