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A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…ator John McCain officially received the political endorsement of a rising new lion of the American Christian right, pastor John Hagee. McCain sought his support, it is fair to assume, as Hagee had constructed a national political lobbying group, Christians United For Israel [CUFI], (which in its own way approximates the vote-getting heft of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority of the late 1970s and 1980s and Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition of the l…

We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…s. Warrior was also among a number of scholars who emphasized that African Americans were not the only Americans to identify with the Israelites. White European settlers had also adopted the Israelite Exodus narrative as they understood themselves as God’s chosen people who had a right to claim their promised land of America at the costly expense of the original inhabitants. Based on the Christian witness of America’s white settlers, Warrior inter…

Atheists Support L.A. Pastor Who Faces “Tribunal” for LGBT Advocacy

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…traced all the way back to slavery. Even today the only place the African-American community who are adults can meet if they want to have a meeting in a predominantly African-American community is a church. Our Civil Rights history was born in the Baptist church, but our enslavement was also born in the Baptist church. Pastor Pickens has been given until March 4th to respond to the church tribunal. Letters of support can be sent to his attentio…

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

By Jay Michaelson

…itany of desperate efforts by the far right to convert the largely liberal American Jewish community to neo-conservatism, hawkish policies on Israel, and the belief that “Barack Hussein Obama” is a Muslim. That said, there actually are two interesting forms of antisemitism going on here. First is the antisemitism of ECI itself. To tug at the kishke-strings of American Jews in the way that ECI has is not only to demean and dehumanize us, but also…

How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…an and former League of Nations consultant Clark Eichelberger, who led the American Association for the United Nations, and James Shotwell, a Columbia University historian, diplomat, and Quaker who represented the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The American Jewish Committee was represented by former appellate judge Joseph Proskauer and philanthropist Jacob Blaustein, who had been urged by President Roosevelt in March 1945 to lobby for…

Why Taking Offense at Santorum’s “Tri-Faith” Nation is a Good Sign

By Rachel Gordan

…, explaining American religion to his son Tommy, says: “See, you can be an American and a Catholic or an American and a Protestant or an American and a Jew.” Buddhists and Muslims and others were clearly not part of this inner circle. What was less clear was how much these believers in “Tri-Faith America” were willing to acknowledge the fundamental differences between the three American religions; did accepting Judaism as part of Judeo-Christianit…

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

By Rebecca Moore

…on to halt the mounting repression of minority religions in Russia—much as American Jews raised awareness of the plight of Soviet Jews in the 1970s. That pressure is unlikely to emerge, however, at least not from the Religious Right and its allies among some evangelical Christians. These Christians actually admire Vladimir Putin. Franklin Graham praised both Putin and Russia’s 2013 law banning “gay propaganda,” which prohibits equating straight an…

Winners and Losers in the “Visitation” of American Nuns?

By Patricia Miller

…preciated and trusted to carry on.” American Nuns/LCWR: Mostly Winners For American nuns, the relatively positive conclusion of the visitation signaled a lifting of some of the storm clouds that had gathered over U.S. religious orders since both the visitation and the investigation of the LCWR were announced in 2009. The final report, while praising American religious for their work, does, however, contain some cautions reflecting the Vatican’s co…

Unquestioned Support for Israel Wasn’t Always the Way for Conservative Christians

By Amy Fallas

…ael and Palestine, and without interrogating their implicitness in conjuring roles for Israel and Jews to play in their Christian theology. Perhaps in this new Christian century, American Christians will marshal the courage to challenge them….

The Nones are Alright: An End-of-the-Year Open Letter to Pearl-Clutching Pundits

By Chrissy Stroop

…here are roughly 96 million of us—have our own thoughts and feelings about American secularization. It should be widely regarded as scandalous that almost 1/3 of the adult American population—a largely Democratic constituency whose share of the electorate has surpassed that of white evangelicals since the 2018 midterms—is systematically ignored and silenced in the press. That hardly anyone even notices speaks to just how entrenched Christian hegem…