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Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…far-fetched at the end of this summer, Kreeft’s larger point has resonated with a number of religious leaders. Echoing Pope John Paul II’s prediction that third millennium could be marked by a unified Christianity, Kreeft predicted: “The age of religious wars is ending; the age of religious war is beginning: A war of all religions against none.” Ultimately, the WCF doesn’t draw the numbers of other global alliances like the World Social Forum. In…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…ow that Catholics in recent elections lean more toward Democrats (e.g., showing Obama winning the Catholic vote by 14 points in 2008 and 9 points in 2012) than do the less accurate exit polls [Washington Post writer Aaron] Blake cites, meaning Trump is already at a disadvantage with that demographic. So it’s not clear that Trump’s standing is as catastrophic as the comparison between this one poll and the exits might suggest. Kilgore says it’s Tru…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…man Catholic WomenPriests webpage and count the black faces—then count the number of graduate degrees after the names of the almost exclusively white women interviewed in Pink Smoke.) As the African-American students at the black seminary I attended used to say to the liberal white women who cross-registered there, “Who ‘we,’ white girl?” The pity of all this is that the exclusion of women from Roman Catholic ordination really is an injustice, one…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…an principles so it’s kind of important when you see a poll that says a growing number of Americans think you might be a Muslim. The President continues to tell everyone he’s a Christian but yet the number rises. See that? Which came first, the thought he was a Muslim or the lack of trust? If he is a Muslim, he can’t be trusted? Or if you can’t trust him, he must be a Muslim? In any case, Obama strained mightily to placate the likes of Graham and…

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

…George W. Bush speechwriter Janice Shaw Crouse, whose missive Payne shared with RD. Crouse, who also withdrew a networking offer that she had extended, told Payne in no uncertain terms, and despite the citations of theologians in Payne’s op-ed, “Your views are irrelevant when it comes to a theological position based on Biblical understanding.” In the letter Crouse also hints that Payne may have been deliberately attempting to damage the school: I…

Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

By Robert P. Jones

…cted to churches. Let’s take each of these in turn. Myth 1: A Large and Growing Number of White Evangelical Protestants Do Not Attend Church The general assertion that church attendance has significantly declined among White evangelical Protestants is simply not supported by the evidence. In the general population, church attendance levels have indeed been dropping over the last few decades. However, church attendance levels among White evangelica…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…rge sociological categories. It’s all based pretty much on “what you tithe will be reflected in the Lord’s generosity.” And always the two major themes of Pentecostals, and more particularly black Pentecostal churches (and the larger they are, the worse it gets) emphasize two themes: prosperity gospel and opposition to gay rights. Why do you think that is? Why are those two joined? Because it’s not obvious that one necessarily has to be linked w…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ften centered around religion. Chance’s faith-filled rhetoric doesn’t jive with conventional wisdom about millennials when it comes to religion. Many of us have seen the ill-effects of conservative Christianity in the public square and are keen to shy away from conversations that might devolve from discussion into debate. This is partly why, as it is commonly said, “millennials have left the church,” or are, simply, “spiritual but not religious.”…

Secularism in the US is Larger, More Diverse and More Dynamic Than Ever, But You Wouldn’t Know it From the Media

By Chrissy Stroop

…And so long as the legacy media continue to portray the nones in this way without actually talking to us, their reporting will inevitably imply that the nonreligious do not deserve to be taken seriously. This brings us back to the new secular media project, OnlySky. Founded by Silicon Valley tech veteran Shawn Hardin, who now acts as its CEO, OnlySky already boasts an impressive group of contributors who are well known in secular circles. These i…

Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…save the life of the child over the objections of the parents. Far from showing a broad and growing acceptance of infanticide, the Baby Doe case actually showed that even in extreme cases that raised the question of whether or not a life was worth saving, most medical professionals were absolutely committed to the answer “yes.” Nevertheless, without any solid evidence, Schaeffer was sure that infanticide was happening. It was going to be happening…