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Coronavirus Exposes the Religious Right’s Racism

By Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead and Joseph O. Baker

…hnic pollution. Charlie Kirk is co-founder of Liberty University’s Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty. The Falkirk Center is described by Liberty’s newspaper as a “modern think tank set to renew and defend God-given freedoms and Christian principles throughout American politics and culture.” That an ambassador of Christian nationalism like Kirk would hold xenophobic attitudes should be no surprise. In Taking America Back for God, we show that su…

A Profanity-Laden Sermon for White People Who Want to Talk About Race

By Daniel Schultz

…it, literally, in his gut. Mark wants us to see that compassion is at the center of Jesus’ nature, and at the center of God’s nature. This is not a claim to be brushed aside lightly. Many people in history have and still today worship a dangerous and angry God, one who must be obeyed above all else and propitiated with sacrifice. Christ’s nature, as displayed here, rejects that God. So when we talk about “compassion,” we have to understand it not…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…ofessor of Astronomy and the History of Science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (self-described as from a “very long Mennonite tradition”). In an email he emphasized that “there would be a real cacophony of voices from atheists to evangelists to popes weighing in on this, with lots of fresh ideas that would cause a lot of rethinking—note that these would be local, human responses….” Among specifically theological topics that wou…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…was that his university would become a magnet for Christian scholars and a center—perhaps the center—for Protestant intellectual life. I was in Waco to write a feature article for Christianity Today, and I confess that I was intrigued by the audacity of Sloan’s plans. Modest, but steady increases in tuition over a period of years, combined with an orchestrated scheme to tap into the wealth of Texas Baptists, would allow Baylor to embark on an ambi…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…, or overdo it with Splenda, and get cancer? 6:42 Back outside the student center, there’s a crowd of doused and disappointed undergraduates, largely Arab, Muslim or sympathetic, who’ve been refused entrance by security. Many, but not all of them, are with Students for Justice in Palestine. I, however, point to my name on a soaked printout, and am quickly let through. After a cursory check of my bag—I’m reading Åsne Seierstad’s brilliant One of Us…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…against trans people has been brewing for a while. The UK seems to be the center of this radicalization, which sees so-called “feminists” partnering with right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to spread their bigotry. In fact, anti-trans hatred has been shown to be a pipeline to right-wing radicalization. United by the biological essentialist definition of sex and gender as one and the same, right-wing vocabulary and buzzwords like “…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…at focused on distant New York City, calling the proposed Park51 community center “a victory mosque”; and in Florida, Tea Party candidate Alan West won in a campaign that included frequent “history lessons,” teaching, among other things, that “Islam is a totalitarian theocratic political ideology. It is not a religion.” But not all voters were swayed by this kind of hate-speech. Ron McNeil lost the Republican primary for Florida’s District 2 House…

Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)

By Eric C. Miller

…about structural racism twenty years ago. He made racial reconciliation a centerpiece of Promise Keepers’ ministry. McCartney’s understanding of systemic injustice never prevailed among a majority of conservative white evangelicals, who insisted that racism was foremost a sin of the heart. This understanding constrained white evangelicals’ ability to forge interracial alliances in support of family values. The pro-family movement found some nonwh…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…but also requires that they inform the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of their decision. The courts have ruled they could either fill out a form or send a letter, and the government will take care of the rest. These organizations claim that signing such a letter impinges on their religious freedom. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and similar state-enacted RFRAs, also played a significant part in 2015. Spurred by the Su…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…s. Then Hurricane Sandy arrived, blew New York away, and as the convention center where Comic Con had been held drained of water from the Hudson River; and as the lower half of Manhattan met Halloween in utter darkness, I found myself shuttered in without electricity in southern Connecticut, watching the world fall apart in New York City, where even today people are scrambling for gasoline to power their generators, where some have gone almost a w…