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Who Will Catholic Bishops Turn to in Trump Era?

By Patricia Miller

…Trump win decisive victories in heavily Catholic states like Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. But a much smaller, although vastly more influential, faction of the religious right coalition may be permanently sidelined by the rise of Trump: the Catholic bishops. The bishops, both individually and in the persona of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have been critical to the GOP in two ways. First, in their insistence that Catholics e…

“My Name is Will and I’m Putting You on Notice”

By Lauri Lebo

…counter-rally to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s wrap up of its “Summer for Marriage” tour. (Hat tip to Republic of Gilead.)…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…U.S., killing the president and congress and installing a new, theocratic Republic of Gilead. Leaders of the new state use fertile women as “handmaids” to conceive and bear their children when their wives are not able—even though it’s often the husbands who are actually infertile. The practice follows the biblical precedent of Rachel, who gives her handmaid over to her husband Jacob when she is unable to bear children. The impetus for the novel (…

Doing a Dukakis (But with Jesus) — Biden Does Not Need to Be More Publicly Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

…ondly, how does this argument make sense in a country founded as a secular republic meant to maintain a sharp separation between church and state? Thirdly, whose god? I mean, what do you think the Christian nationalists are doing when they vote, if not putting God first as they understand this infinitely malleable figure? Voting Republican is a religious imperative for the White evangelicals I grew up among, because the GOP pursues policies that l…

Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity

By Ryann Croken

…ion, before leaving I decided to ask Americans of my generation what they knew about modern US-Panamanian relations. A pattern quickly began to emerge: they knew absolutely nothing. No one I talked to was aware of Operation Just Cause, and when I told people about it and asked them if they had a sense as to why the United States might have launched such an invasion, not a single interviewee had any idea. Something about FARC? The Iran-Contra scand…

Biblical Inerrancy: Responses to “What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe?”

By C. Joshua Villines

…wo longer ‘letters to the editor,’ presented together below. In the first, New Republic contributor Ed Kilgore confronts the lingering question of biblical inerrancy while emphasizing the extraordinary evolution of contemporary Christianity beyond widespread doctrinal disputes. In the second, Protestant Pastor C. Joshua Villines lays out some of what Christians do believe and waxes poetic on the nonpartisan nature of Christianity. _____________ Ed…

Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…e editors of The New York Times. The fight ostensibly concerns whether the New York Times Magazine editors responsible for the 1619 Project—and specifically Nikole Hannah-Jones, who conceived the project and who wrote the introductory piece—falsify America’s real history by presenting that history as the chronicle of a relentless and constantly morphing white supremacist ideology. With barely restrained loathing, the Project’s critics charge the T…

Beck: Muslim Brotherhood Is Like ACORN

By Sarah Posner

…because they provide food to people. And we’d never want a charity to give anyone food! “Please,” he concluded, “if you want to save the Republic, please, food storage.” Listen here: …

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…searching, but at the weekend Mike and I had a trip to Leeds and chose two new rings to mark this new milestone in our lives together “I have written to the Archbishop, and informed him of our intentions, and he will withdraw my PTO, and my ministry as a reader will come to an abrupt end.” Venezuela: First trans candidate for Congress; Evangelicals press Socialist Party on gay rights According to a Reuters report last Saturday, “The first transgen…

Darrell Issa’s Show Trial
on Alleged Obama Administration “Anti-Catholic Bias”

By Sarah Posner

…going away anytime soon, though. It’s a perfect crucible for interrelated Republican cause celebres that all serve as election season fodder: that the Obama administration “promotes abortion;” that contraceptives are like a gateway drug for abortion; and that the Obama administration is depriving the Catholic Bishops of their religious liberty. But the Democrats could easily turn this around on the Republicans. Should rape victims be forced to ca…