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The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…itely still in control of American Christianity. Catholics were smaller in numbers and had a much weaker class position. The mainline churches had growing memberships, media connections, and they dominated all three branches of the federal government. In 1963, mainliners were proud to publish Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” in their house organ, The Christian Century, while FBI strongman J. Edgar Hoover was the darling o…

Anti-Immigrant Legislator Takes Aim At Arizona Children

By Joanna Brooks

…nited States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”—puts pressure on a belief in the divine inspiration of the U.S. Constitution cherished by many conservative Mormons. Some Mormons have already gone on record in opposition to the new bill, sensitized perhaps by negative publicity about Mor…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…port” is without any data to back it up, save the most easily quantifiable numbers of people, visits, and the like. Individual reports will go to “those Institutes which hosted an onsite visitation and to those Institutes whose individual reports indicated areas of concern.” No one expects those to be love letters. We Are (Still) All Nuns As I have written here at RD (See, “We Are All Nuns” and other stories. -The Eds) the Visitation was not the o…

USA “Uniquely Blessed?” Depends on Your Definition

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ed are hungry. While there are certainly hungry people in our country, the United States wastes more than 113 tons of food a day. We can’t exactly be called a “hungry” nation and therefore are not “uniquely blessed” in this category. Strike two for America. In Matthew 5, Jesus is emphatic that those who are “uniquely blessed” are peacemakers in the world. The United States has hardly sowed the seeds of peace anywhere in this world—launching pre-em…

Is the Bible Too Holy to Be Tennessee’s State Book?

By Adam Shapiro

…gious meaning. The bill’s secular opponents—such as the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State—and its religious opponents, including Haslam, are united in the view that such a separation is impossible. This is in a deep sense a semiotic failure on both ends of the political spectrum. But it may also be a recognition of the Bible’s unique role as a political and legal powder keg in American history, going back to the Bible ri…

Methodists Move Toward LGBT Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…conference last month by Rev. Bruce Robbins, pastor of the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis. The statement gives a nod to the other denominations who are ahead of them: We are convinced by the witness of others and are compelled by Spirit and conscience to act. We thank the many United Methodists who have already called for full equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the life of the Church…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…independent Palestine, a political move that has further demonstrated the United States and Israel’s isolation from the rest of the world on this issue. In spite of the new dynamics of Middle East politics there still remain places like Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria where longstanding dictators have clung to power and utilized brutally repressive measures, intimidation, arrest, and killing to suppress individuals from organizing against the governme…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…s who make the long, perilous journey from Latin America and Mexico to the United States, before they do so, they make a vow to Santa Muerte, make peace with Saint Death. They say to themselves, “I may not make this, there’s a good chance I may die on the way. If I make it to America, I vow that I’ll set up an idol or temple for Santa Muerte.” And that’s precisely why you see so many shrines in the southern United States—because the people who cre…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…there is a ‘War on Christmas,’” read a recent press release from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “[I]t is ironic to see these groups using a season dedicated to peace and understanding to foster conflict.” The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, suggested that “The best holiday present we could get this year would be for the religious right to stop using Christmas as a club to bash others. The religious…

Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ere is no church in Miami big enough to house her devotees. Hers is the story of a statue discovered by two indigenous men and an African slave, and later accompanying a slave community in Cuba. Her statue still remains in a shrine in Cuba, and a duplicate accompanied Cubans into exile here in the United States. She is the most powerful symbol of Cuban religious and cultural identity both on the island and in the Cuban Diaspora. Her face is brown….