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Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…t it was America’s best and brightest, not its troglodytes, who designed a policy of “uplift via removal” to deal with what they regarded as the grave challenge posed by “degraded” Native Americans and African Americans living in close proximity to whites. Guyatt’s book is divided into three sections, each treating a major theme or phase in the white reformers’ efforts. He devotes four of his chapters to “degradation,” three to “amalgamation,” and…

The Circle Can Remain Unbroken, If Battered And Bloody

By Daniel Schultz

…ially destructive or about the rules of reason for making equitable public policy? The reply of most moral and political philosophers to this question tends to be simply, “probably not.” The nub of disagreement in these circles is over just how dismal the situation is. This is the usual tendentiousness from both Dreher and Hunter. Culture Wars was conceptually an attack on John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus” as the glue of a liberal soc…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…ng with the Middle East issues, or is the candidate too new to the foreign policy arena? In light of yesterday’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, Nance, in a statement, calls Israel a “cornerstone” for the 2016 presidential nomination, adding, “continued violence in Israel and constant turmoil in the Middle East makes a clear and comprehensive foreign policy agenda a must for any potential conservative presidential candidate.” Concerned…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…idate showcasing his or her religious beliefs on the campaign trail and in policy debates. The poll, conducted earlier this month, found nearly three-quarters (72%) of respondents believe the influence of religion in American society is waning—but that most view that decline as a negative development. “Perhaps as a consequence,” the Pew researchers conclude, “a growing share of the American public wants religion to play a role in U.S. politics.” T…

‘Centrist’ Advocates of ‘Common Ground’ Endorse Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Bill

By Sarah Posner

…said the “rider” required by the amendment was motivated by politics, not policy. “There is no sound policy reason to require women to pay separately for their abortion coverage other than to try to shame them and draw attention to the abortion coverage,” she said in a statement. Who was satisfied with the amendment, which Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) portrayed as a compromise between language that mirrored the failed Capps amendment and the successful…

ACLU’s Religious Freedom Suit Against Trump Order: “Gerrymandered to Target Muslims”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…what makes this lawsuit different from the others already challenging the policy. Weaver says the executive order’s targeting of Muslims is so blatant that it’s nearly unprecedented. While the text neither includes Trump’s pet phrase, “radical Islamic terrorism,” nor the words “Islam” or “Muslim,” it doesn’t have to. The administration “constructed the terms of the executive order” to disproportionately impact Muslim immigrants and refugees, Weav…

Kentucky-Fried Christianity: Governor Matt Bevin Wants to Pray Away Violence in Louisville

By Spencer Dew

…veiling, arguing that the governor “has a responsibility to produce public policy, regulation and provide resources. We don’t need a sermon or him quoting Scripture, we know the Bible and we’re already praying.” Calloway’s emphasis on the need for the government’s this-worldly power to intervene in what he insists are the likewise this-worldly conditions that facilitate violent crime is echoed by other local Christian leaders. Reverend Kevin Cosby…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…see this as game-changing,” said Greg Dolan, associate director for public policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic education. The further marginalization of contraception and reduced contraceptive access. Make no mistake. The bishops’ real objection to the contraceptive mandate was that it threatened to enshrine contraception as an essential health benefit, which was a direct threat to the Catholic Church’s prom…

GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…Changing Attitudes Toward Food in Late Imperial China.” While Chinese food policy affects a significant percentage of the world population, it seems problematic to present “Chinese food culture” as a monolithic way of life. The piece looks at concepts like the five elements and yin-yang but lacks a specific spiritual context I expected from the piece. The focus of Ping-chen’s writing is not on spiritual food ritual but on medicinal treatments and…

Where are the Mormon “Nuns on the Bus”?

By Joanna Brooks

…it’s a reflection of how isolated we are from serious faith-based national policy conversations. Where Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and other people of faith are reasoning together about difficult economic policy matters, it is now a common refrain that the national budget is a “moral document” that reflects the priorities and commitments we share across faith traditions. Government in this view becomes a trans-faith collaboration in blunting the…