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Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

By Joanna Brooks

…overeign state of Utah.” Yikes. But Lee himself should know better than to buy into the revanchist mythologizing of the Constitution and its framers espoused by Skousen and his followers. I’m holding in my hand his father’s book A Lawyer Looks at the Constitution (1981), which was published the same year as Cleon Skousen’s 5,000 Year Leap (now a bestseller, thanks to promotion by Beck). The two make for a striking comparison. Skousen, the former F…

Taking the Christ Back Out of Christmas: Secularizing the Season

By C. Joshua Villines

…pers use the “Christmas Season” as an emotional lure to persuade people to buy more things they don’t really need. Even Christian fundamentalists realize this. Yet the main complaints in “defense of Christmas” are about the failure of companies to refer directly and exclusively to Jesus’ birth in their advertising. Apparently these defenders of Christmas do not see the irony in pushing for more commercial uses of the image of the man who told a we…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…citizens. Because in Texas, that’s about to change big time. And if we all buy their textbooks, it’s going to change for us, too. If anything, this little escapade that started about national textbook sales and has now turned into an epic ideological battle about how the West understands itself has been healthy for all of us. I find it to be a nice cleansing of the palate about what it means to be citizens and how we understand and teach our own i…

Obama Recognizes Gay Dads

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…unning the risk of alienating networks of pastors and church goers who may buy into the President’s overall but draw the line when it comes to traditional marriage. You put these normally supportive pastors in a tough situation because the fact of the matter is the whole ‘two fathers’ scenario DOES NOT play well in most Churches in America. And that is completely understandable. My first reaction to that concern was, “welcome to our world.” The LG…

Clinging to Religion,
but Not Guns

By Sarah Posner

…gun violence and deeply afraid of becoming victimized by gun violence, we buy more guns while loosening rather than tightening gun laws, thus actually increasing the chances that we or our loved ones will die a gun death. All of which has to lead to the conclusion that there is a spiritual reality underneath this social sickness. Is it too much to say that we are in the grip of “principalities and powers” that delight in the suffering they incite…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…fter I keep him waiting for 30 minutes (because of my mistake), I offer to buy him a cone from The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. He pays for his. I am not sure where the cone, or his boot, may end up as we talk. MMK is considered to be the father of the American Muslim Punk Movement. His originally self-published novel, The Taqwacores, was photocopied and spiral-bound. Sold out of car trunks, given away for free, or bought over the internet (like I did…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…from the continuum of women’s health care. Just like in the mid-twentieth century, the bishops seek to ensure that only relatively well off women who can afford to buy it privately can get birth control. Everyone else will just have to pray they don’t get pregnant….

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…some of these welcome the patronage of politicians. Others still refuse to buy into the dualism of sacred versus secular, preferring instead to see God as fully invested in humanity’s full experience—these consider democracy an arena in which they can be the salt of the earth and light to the world and the leaders have worked, among other things, to reconcile bitter enemies or to oppose dictatorial tendencies. Generally, evangelical and mainline C…

“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…22:36, Jesus said: “Let him who hath no sword, let him sell his tunic and buy one.” We feel most vulnerable when we have no means to defend ourselves from attacks. Organizations like the Pink Pistols offer a seemingly viable tool to stem gay violence. Of course guns will never be the great equalizer for an embattled group. They may for a fleeting moment deter our enemies, but they will never permanently protect us from them. What guns do, perhaps…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…hird of them have been relatively centrist “Carter-types” all along. These numbers are neither static nor crystal clear—they probably inched upward along generational lines and shifted by a few percentage points from time to time, depending on how we measure evangelical status and centrism. (Many evangelicals take more progressive stances toward poverty, militarism, and the environment than feminist and LGBT issues.) Meanwhile, the media spotlight…