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Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ged politics and religion so well that the coalition was given much of the credit for the wins of Ronald Reagan in both 1980 and 1984. Even though the formal coalition dissolved in 1989, many believe that the cementing of Christo-centric conservative values on the political right mobilized voters at the polls. Through the “compassionate conservative” era of George W. Bush and the “evangelical” era of Barack Obama, it remains the American way for c…

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…their Pro-Life Activities Committee, and colleagues will and ought to take credit for rolling back a constitutionally guaranteed right, causing immeasurable harm especially to poor people, and putting their “preeminent priority” issue over the diverse views and needs of a nation. Congratulations, or something. These few Catholics set their sights on this goal four decades ago. They have worked relentlessly and squandered resources that belong to t…

In Order to Move Forward We Must Believe the Unbelievable: Some Choose Death Over Democracy

By John Stoehr

…here is there a hero choosing death over democracy. We must reconsider the credit we give. In places like South Dakota, individual liberty is being perverted in the interest of the group, of the tribe, of the collective, so that individual life, far from being sacred, is expendable. This is the collectivism we must face. This is the alternative to democracy we must fight. Winning the presidency means there’s still hope. There’s work to be done but…

With This Thanksgiving Bombshell SCOTUS Began Implementation of an Ultraconservative Agenda

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ntacts with others. Religious worship is different. People gather in large numbers, indoors, close together, file in and out in crowds, and sing and pray and chant—all of which help spread the virus. We know that churches spread this virus. One worshipper in Ohio infected nearly 100 other people, half of whom never stepped foot in the church. It spread, “like wildfire,” said Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. And that was in early August, before th…

The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

By Josh Parks

…our dreams, no request is too extreme”), these villains—a disproportionate number of whom are women or nonhuman—don’t stand a chance. But good doesn’t only triumph against witches and monsters. Disney’s wish-upon-a-star worldview also means that guests can indulge in nostalgia for the past without wrestling with any of history’s ugliness. The Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland offers river cruises through 1950s Africa without any mention of colonialism…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…Rather than studying how people live Jewish lives, the emphasis is on the numbers of bodies that “count” as Jewish. More disturbing still are the legacies of scientific racism evident in the language of “intermarriage,” “in-marriage,” and “out-marriage. I think there are two steps in the embodiment they describe: one, inherent distinctiveness (the Jew is the Jewish body) and, second, superiority born from a narrative of chosenness (many but not a…

Bishops’ Attempt to Deny Communion to Biden Will Backfire Even More Spectacularly Than Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…ve, by turns criminal, and, in recent decades, the reason former Catholics number as many as current Catholics in the US. For the bishops to pronounce who among the laity is worthy to receive communion is absurd. At most, such decisions are made pastorally and in private, on a case by case, diocese by diocese basis. But these days, with the institution mired in bankruptcies because of priests’ criminal conduct, costs and market share plunging beca…

Evangelicals in Moral Panic Over Exvangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…be-an-exvangelical sentiment. In fairness, Moore gives “the children” some credit in his lament on exvangelicals, agreeing that there is much hypocrisy in evangelicalism worth criticizing before coming to the nonsense conclusion that “We are losing a generation—not because they are secularists, but because they believe we are.” In late April, I responded to Moore’s newsletter comments about exvangelicals in an open letter, asking him to talk to, r…

Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?

By Andre E. Johnson

…This entire movement came from nothing,” while Wallace-Wells gives all the credit to Rufo for causing the current ‘CRT controversy.’ However, the truth is that before Rufo “discovered” CRT from the footnotes of documents leaked to him by frustrated employees in anti-bias and diversity training classes, white evangelicals had already been laying the groundwork for the attack on CRT. For instance, the libertarian evangelical blog Truth and Liberty w…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…at it was these women’s morality that needed upgrading, not Rudy’s. To his credit, Wuthnow does take note of the way in which, during the 1980s and 1990s, the focus of traditional Catholic discourse around human dignity was increasingly transferred from concern for the dignity of the poor to concern for the fate of the “unborn.” He also takes note of how the language of victimhood—the endless whining about alleged anti-Christian persecution—became…