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The Muslim Ban May Be Unconstitutional, But It’s Not Un-American

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…tand without her righteous regalia, and how will the Liberty Bell ring for freedom with its widening crack? The so-called colorblind and religiously neutral U.S. Constitution has again fallen prey to the logic of whiteness, which renders non-white and non-Christian freedom, creativity, power, protection and decency a national impossibility. White supremacy is larger than individual acts of violence against non-white bodies. It is too simplistic to…

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Allow Pastors to Endorse from Pulpit?

By Daniel Silliman

…er-present threat to religious liberty. It might help the voters that gave Republicans both house of congress, but it wouldn’t help those Republicans to help those voters quite that much. Taking the cynical view, the Republicans would seem to be better off keeping the toothless law that offends a little bit without actually keeping churches out of politics. Especially since removing that offense would only give Walter Jones, Jr. a legislative vict…

The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

By Joseph Laycock

…ayed in Spain for generations. In April 2015 a TV station in the Dominican Republic aired a story portraying the Charlie game as a Satanic threat taking over schools. The footage went viral, spreading the game’s popularity to other countries. Although Charlie is most often described as a “Mexican ghost,” it appears that Christian critics reframed the game as Satanic almost immediately. It is in the interest of religious institutions to claim a mon…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…han other nations. Note that “different” is the word that our politicians, Republican and Democrat, use to mean distinctly better than other peoples. And what an amazing level of self-deception that is, say the world’s other peoples, shaking their heads over white America’s delusional self-love. I believe that what most dismays international observers of today’s America—and I refer to people who want to admire our country more than they now do—is…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…they lose their tax-exempt status. All religious leaders should be able to freely express their thoughts and feelings on religious matters. From there, candidate Trump moved through the fairly customary laundry list of Republican talking points—school choice, Hillary’s emails, the secret plan to defeat ISIS, the need for a conservative to appoint the Scalia replacement, Hillary’s responsibility for North Korea’s nukes, and so on and on. By compari…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, India, Venezuela, Russia, and the African Group. Opposing the resolution were Austria, Chile, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Korea, Romania, UK, and the United States. Reprisals are expected during the current session of the Council. The positioning of “the family” as the best protector of children’s health and rights is the latest in a large-scale and ongoing a…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…salvation for those recruited into its ranks. In a recent essay in The New Republic, Graeme Wood described the core supporters of ISIS as an uneasy coalition of three groups: psychopaths, believers and pragmatists. The pragmatists are largely from Sunni regions of Syria and Iraq who have been disenfranchised by the Shi’a regimes of Bashir Assad in Damascus and Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad. On the other hand, the psychopaths and believers are often f…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…— from Somalia and Yemen to Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Mali, and the Central African Republic. It is also true that transitions from authoritarian to looser forms of governance are fraught with high political risk, as in ex-Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq. Moreover, most of these radical groups, including the “Islamic State,” have a record of cynical gangsterism, routinely taking hostages and terrorizing targets for ransom. Many of their recruit…

How Hell Has Shaped America

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…he latter into question (like David Sehat’s The Myth of American Religious Freedom and Amanda Porterfield’s Conceived in Doubt). My book builds on these studies to complicate the common characterization of Americans as millennial optimists, forward-looking and confident in their ability to redeem the world. Hell survived in this supposedly enlightened nation, not as an anachronistic relic, but in order to ensure that very nation’s survival—or so i…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ciates its potential as an institution of social stability and respect its centrality to Christian and other religious ideologies. But by taking the marriage to its contractual core, it bares the persistence of hypocritical and anachronistic attitudes that perpetuate discrimination. In Jamaica’s case, we refer to Section 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, thereby r…