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America’s National Conversation about Christianity is ‘Fundamentally Unserious’ — But Not in the Way You Think

By Chrissy Stroop

…lines for doing something illiberal, like raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the legal defense of a racist murderer, social media explodes with the accusation that they are “fake Christians”—thereby implying that “real” Christians can only ever be good, and thus reinforcing Christian supremacism and undercutting pluralism. When Democrats raise an outcry because a Republican elected to Congress blithely discusses his efforts to convert Je…

The Religious Reason Many Americans Refuse to Wear Masks

By Kate Blanchard

…l where he was given the best American health care money can buy—a million dollars’ worth by some estimates. Among other “miracle” treatments, the President received remdesivir (an anti-viral medication), dexamethasone (a steroid for inflammation), and Regeneron’s still experimental antibody cocktail (tested, like remdesivir, on cell lines made from aborted fetal tissue—but that’s a story for another time). After a mere three days (let the reader…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…isode we learn that the man who so despised tattoos, but had a significant number of them, acquired most of them in a short period of time, and acquired many through a particular practice in the back room of his own clock workshop. Paying one hundred dollars an hour to a tattoo artist, McLemore submitted to the needle, sometimes for a new piece, sometimes merely for more ink on top of old, a tattoo sunk on top of an existing tattoo, turning his bo…

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

…nography in Times Square”? What about the millions and millions of federal dollars spent on largely ineffective “abstinence-only” sex-ed programs designed to teach teens to just say no to sex? What about the “purity” movement’s insistence on front-porch courtships and chaste, chaperoned dating where a couple wouldn’t even exchange so much as a kiss until they were engaged? If the sons of the right were following their own side’s prescriptions for…

The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats

By Patricia Miller

…s what we’re talking about here. Not some political strategy like where ad dollars should be spent or which voters should be targeted. We’re talking about access to a legal reproductive health procedure that gravely impacts the future life, health and prospects of a woman and, in many cases, her existing children. Thomas Groome is sticking to his contention that Barack Obama was more “nuanced” on abortion than Hillary Clinton, and that’s why she l…

Five Signs Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” Dystopia May Be Nigh

By Patricia Miller

…activists who want to stop women from paying for abortions with tax-credit dollars.” In echoes of the move in Gilead to take women’s control of money away from them, this is an effort to stop women from using their own money—which is what tax refunds are—to pay for abortions. States are in the middle of an effort to find ever new and creative ways to prevent women from getting abortions, even with their own money, or shaming or endangering women f…

GOP “Stealthcare” Bill Reveals Catholic Bishops’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…the Republican health overhaul effort was “tied to hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tax cuts” and urged the bishops to “talk about uncoupling these efforts.” But good luck trying to get the Dolan-Kudlow faction of the church’s leadership to oppose tax cuts for the wealthy, even if it comes at the expense of health care for the poor. And in an implicit rebuke of the political priorities signaled by a freestanding Religious Liberty Committee…

Catholic Bishops Tackle Racism, But Is It Too Late?

By Patricia Miller

…arm to Trump during the primaries, probably due to the presence of a large number of Catholic and neo-Catholic candidates like Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and John Kasich. But, as Edsall notes: Once Trump secured this “white identifier” base — making him competitive in a multicandidate field — he was positioned to expand his traction among traditional Republicans, including a decisive majority of those who backed Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. B…

Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…dinary thing about the proposal is that we know that it loses trillions of dollars in revenue, yet at the same time the only people we can identify as guaranteed winners are the most affluent. Bear in mind that the GOP plan actually raises taxes for the poorest wage earners while ensuring that future revenue shortfalls, along with a $1.5 to $2 trillion spike in the deficit, will be used to further reduce public services and safety net benefits in…

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No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…a senator from Iowa, we now have a president elected with $30 million NRA dollars, and who perhaps not coincidentally “feels closer to the NRA than just about any outside group.” And instead of a Congress debating, however tentatively, gun control, we have a Republican-led House of Representatives considering rolling back limits on silencers and armor-piercing bullets. I, like many others, worry about what’s becoming of our nation. I worry about…