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Hillary’s Faith, Trump’s Conversion: Two Questions Journalists Need to Ask

By Stewart M. Hoover

…, at least to the politics reporter. What Trump meant was that in the real day-to-day discourse of politics, the second-and-third-hand rehashed retail accounts on cable news that he pays attention to and that form the common political conversation of the moment, Hillary’s religion hasn’t been present. He was right about that. He was speaking to a context where religion does count to that common conversation—he was talking to a group of politically…

The Tyranny of Politeness

By Daniel C. Maguire

…woman! Jesus never had a chance to grow up as a sycophant. And now in our day, another impolite and bloodied prophet, John Lewis, has rattled the timbers of political propriety. He denounced the new president as lacking legitimacy. Even liberals who rushed to his defense missed his point, confusing legal and moral legitimacy. Legal legitimacy is always subordinate to the judgement of moral legitimacy. Slavery, after all, was legally legitimate: A…

LDS Church Response to Prop. 8 Begs Question of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…e LDS Church also issued a statement: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice determined in a general election that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a woman. We have always had that view. Courts should not alter that definition, especially when the people of California have spoken so clearly on the subject. Millions of voters in California sent a message that tra…

Trump’s Easter Egg Roll: Inauthentic Christianity in a Bunny Suit

By Karen E. Park

…p paperback Easter stories read by Sanders and Conway—no doubt ordered the day before from Amazon Prime—had nothing to do with teaching, or welcoming, or even celebrating a Christian holiday (inappropriate as that itself would have been at a White House event). As this administration did with its craven and phony defense of “Merry Christmas” as if it were an endangered greeting, the Trump Administration has co-opted another holiday which has both…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…outcomes. The world of scales and practicing—hours and hours and hours per day, playing in wedding bands, giving lessons, doing all of these kinds of debasing things in order to make the rent—[produces] preparedness to enter the space and time of invention. And when that happens, whether we’re talking solo performance or performance with other people, it’s at that moment that interactivity is required for the musicians, in order to invoke the spir…

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…essage from local leaders read. As initial reactions continue to arrive, today is a thoughtful day for Mormon people. With the support of the U.S. Supreme Court, LGBT families and their allies now take a great step beyond the prejudices of history and the hurt of the Proposition 8 campaign. But for Mormon families and congregations, however, the damage from Proposition 8 remains, and will remain—largely unaddressed and unremediated. Who has full…

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…are affiliated with congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yesterday, the LDS Church’s Public Affairs division released a statement acknowledging that the prospective policy change had “triggered intense debate” and praised the BSA for “delaying a vote” “until the implications can be more carefully evaluated.” “We caution others not to speculate about our position,” the LDS Church statement continued, “or to assume th…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…arship offers and who’d been cut by the Golden State Warriors on the first day of training camp. In his two-plus weeks of fame he’s been spotted high-fiving Knicks super-fan Spike Lee (sporting Lin’s Harvard jersey), graced the cover of Time magazine in Asia, and even been the subject of a Saturday Night Live skit. —eds. If you’ve unplugged your computer and TV for the last week, you may not have heard of Jeremy Lin, the sudden basketball phenomen…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…and use those sophisticated guns. In the rush from origins to the present day, let’s not skip over the Civil War, when the most sophisticated guns of the day freed the slave. At least that’s the popular version of our history, the traditional complement to Emerson’s popular version of the Revolution. Just Show Up and Shoot So the gun is at the center of the story of America as it’s so commonly told: a people always loving freedom, always under a…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…ve near Dallas, Texas, you can attend Generals International’s Reformation Day celebration and pray for a “fresh start” for America, just in time for the elections. Reformation Day features Cindy Jacobs and Dutch Sheets, self-proclaimed apostles associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation. Jacobs warns that President Obama is bringing God’s wrath in the form of natural disasters. And earlier this year Sheets railed against wimpy Chri…