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Triple Fundamentalism: The New American Conservatism

By Julie Ingersoll

…m the era of conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, to today’s populist anti-intellectuals (my term). He writes: In all three cases, the pattern is the same. There is the eternal Truth that never varies—the will of God, the principles of the Founding Fathers, the so-called laws of the free market. There are the scriptures which explain the eternal truths—the King James Bible, in the case of religious fundamentalism, the Constitution or the…

Prominent Evangelical Pundit Accuses Obama of “Abusing” Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…ith-based office has issues, but this doesn’t appear to be one high on the list of offenses. How is this initiative more politically calculating or cynical or wrong than Karl Rove trying to get more African-Americans to vote Republican by doling out cash to Eddie Long? Gerson has recently co-authored a book on religion and politics with former Bush staffer Peter Wehner, now a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center. On CBN, the…

A Letter to the Religious Left on the Victory of Obama

By Daniel Schultz

…cs put standard social litmus-tests like abortion pretty far down on their list of priorities. Mainline protestants were as confused as ever. In fact, only a few groups showed clear results one way or another. White evangelicals went for McCain in roughly the same proportions they did for George W. Bush. Black Protestants went for Obama to such a great extent that McCain’s purported support from this group could only be termed “theoretical.” Relig…

Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion

By Nick Street

From the pantheon of Greco-Roman names in the cast list to the hard-drinking antics of the pagan crew, there is a distinct Dionsysian vibe on the critically adored Battlestar Galactica, now entering its final season on the Sci-Fi channel. There’s no character named Dionysus, it’s true, but we have straight-arrow flyboy Apollo and Cylon turncoat Athena and her existentially tormented human lover, Karl Agathon. Then there’s the simple fact that the…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…but we can’t do that. We can’t let that happen. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country. They actually hate our country. No walls, no borders, bad elections, no voter ID. We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…ing about at any particular moment. And when I wrote about Cecil Taylor, I listened to Cecil Taylor. When I was thinking about writing about Charles Mingus the next day, I would listen to Charles Mingus at night. If any piece of writing in the book is successful, it was actually responding to the music. And this is something that I’ve learned about in my own improvising as well, something I’ve been doing for over twenty years. I think I have a lis…

“Junk Religion”: White House Fills Remaining Faith-Based Slots

By Frances Kissling

…nated the first religious appointments. We were largely ignored. The final list makes clear that other groups lobbied as well. The Catholic bishops got a seat at the table. Orthodox Judaism, the National Council of Churches. Establishment lobbyists prevailed. Not all appointments were problematic. The National Council of Jewish Women’s president Nancy Ratzen, a committed advocate of women’s rights and reproductive choice assumes a heavy burden on…

Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ed war, coercive religious conversion, and colonialism perhaps topping the list of ills) imago dei theology is also at the root of liberal ideas of the dignity and worth of each person. Could it also be, among more liberal Nones, at least, that the very theologies that highlighted their uniqueness as “God’s special creations” invite them see themselves as profoundly different from the those in the faith communities in which they were raised? Thoug…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…he androgynous monster that rocketed Marsh to the top of 1897’s bestseller list, through figures like the “transsexual” serial killer Buffalo Bill in the movie The Silence Of The Lambs. These pop culture vehicles of cultural memory have ensured that, in an era when White Christians are actually experiencing the decline that the Victorians only hypothesized, fearful believers can slot late Victorian archetypes into their own version of the terror-t…

Condos on Mars: A New Kind of Limit Experience?

By Laurie Patton

…or water as a productive resource is more intense than ever before—and the list goes on. Because of this different “limit experience”—the knowledge that we are indeed limited—the hunt for renewable forms of energy has reached global dimensions. At this particular historical moment of energy scarcity, we should seize the opportunity to treat Mars in a rather different way than we have treated the other worlds we humans have “discovered“ thus far; n…