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When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…. In the heat of a bitter national election, a book calling for toned-down domestic diplomacy seemed out-of-sync with the political mood. Why talk with other people when you can vote them into submission? Interfaith Leadership: A Primer Eboo Patel Beacon Press September 2016 Now, after an election that has left many Americans feeling baffled, infuriated, and terrified by the beliefs of their fellow citizens, Patel’s message seems a little more apt…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…lders. This speculation may have some merit, but it ignores the thoroughly domestic dynamics of which figures like Trump and Gingrich have taken advantage—namely, LCR’s various articulations of the freedom/gay rights versus oppression/Islamic extremism dichotomy. In that sense, the unsightly fragmentation of the GOP shouldn’t mislead us to the ways in which party officials and activists alike continue to cynically galvanize homonationalist impulse…

Doing Political Theology In an Election Season: Howard Thurman on Deception

By Andrew Wilkes

…racial equity and economic dignity without overhauling capitalism itself. Domestic workers, retail employees, adjunct college professors, caregivers, and others have spoken this truth. Those of us who speak from American pulpits have not often listened to them. But we might. In Christian language, I would say that once we acknowledge our near-bottomless tendency for self-deceit, we can then hear the challenging good news of the One who becomes hu…

Trump’s Remark to Evangelicals is Straight Out of Global Authoritarian Playbook

By Murali Balaji

…igious institutions as a source of their power and legitimacy. In both his domestic and foreign policy efforts, Trump has governed as if evangelical Christianity were America’s state religion, empowering groups and individuals whose voices were considered fringe and largely ineffectual until last year. As Americans on average have become increasingly tolerant and liberal on a number of issues, many evangelicals have become more conservative. Becau…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ke the White House-backed “It’s On Us” campaign to stop sexual assault and domestic violence, seem like they have a greater chance of reaching men who need to hear this message than a glowing profile in a magazine that has always catered to women. None of this critique is intended to discount Bono’s important, life-saving work through the ONE Foundation, or the critical awareness he’s raising about the fact that, indeed, Poverty Is Sexist. But per…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…al medical treatment, or that divorce is immoral, even in circumstances of domestic violence. H.B. 3859 violates the Establishment Clause by allowing state funds to be used to compel minors into religious education, without providing ample opportunities for comparable secular instruction or support. Where private individuals have no or insufficient choice in selecting a religious program, government support for a religious organization violates th…

Sexist, Homophobic Representatives of “The Black Church” Just Want to Make Black America Great Again

By Anita Little

…grounds, like Bishop James W.E. Dixon who was arrested a few years back on domestic violence charges, or Rev. Jamal “These Hoes Ain’t Loyal” Bryant who likes using his pulpit to police black women’s sexuality despite his own well-publicized dalliances. Though they all claim to be Democrats or Independents, the signatories sure do have a lot in common with the staunch conservatives who would turn a blind eye to (valid) issues the letter addresses,…

Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

…ide. In the years following his presidency, his vision was enacted through domestic and foreign policy. Welfare reform, trade agreements, and the War on Terror may have seemed to further neoliberal or neoconservative aims. But they also fit with Reagan’s notion of a Godly America that believed its self-interest was in tune with the divine. Trump personifies this vision of freedom; he has pursued his own ends with the zeal of one who expects God is…

How Long Before Trump Claims ‘Religious Freedom’ to Avoid Paying Taxes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…p reminded people on the campaign trail. And with Pence taking the lead on domestic policy (at least on the transition team), and serving as Senate President, it’s not far-fetched to suspect that this politician’s pet issue of religious freedom will be wielded as a sword in Trump’s America (to the Trump family’s benefit, of course). Certainly, any hope of a kinder, less discriminatory FADA has evaporated with the red tide that swept Washington on…

Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…ological,” with claims that his incoherent, and often incompatible, mix of domestic and international policies and priorities somehow transcends ideology and points to a new way of governing that is neither left or right. Much has also been made of growing fault lines within the evangelical community, with suggestions that the evangelicalism of old white men is dead. Taken together, the rise of Trump and the fracturing evangelicalism suggest that…