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The Critiques of Evangelical Writers Opposing Christian Nationalism Fail to Recognize Evangelicalism’s Troubling History

By David Hollinger

…Reagan’s embrace of evangelicals in 1980 consolidated this transition. The free-falling mainliners largely withdrew from their long-standing role in public affairs. Hence, there were fewer critiques of the sort John C. Bennett made in his important 1958 book, Christians and the State, when he insisted that Americans are not “a Christian people” and should renounce the habit of describing themselves in that way. T. S. Eliot’s Idea of a Christian So…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…o the fact that I know this is hardly the first time in the history of the United States that people in power have called for reunion in the face of popular unrest. And while calls for reconciliation can be good or neutral, they can also signal an abdication of the responsibility to face and address injustice, a lesson I learned writing about the theological convictions embedded within Confederate monuments. As you can imagine, the nation was not…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the MB or a derivative organization. Consequently, most of the Muslim-American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution.” (emphasis in original; I wrote more about Gaffney’s calls on Congress to “investigate” shari’ah here). WND’s Aaron Klein, whose…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…come out publicly and are now vulnerable to having their lives destroyed. United Methodists: impact of shrinking U.S. share of global church Rachel Zoll of the Associated Press reviews the state of conflict in the United Methodist Church, where more than 1,100 clergy have pledged to defy the denomination’s stance against marriage for same-sex couples, and where church courts in the U.S. are defrocking clergy who do so. Zoll notes that repeated ef…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…o work—as citizens themselves. This year also bears witness to the highest number of refugees in history, along with a stubborn strain of white nationalism embedded in politics from the local to the federal levels across the globe. This parallel is no coincidence. As I discuss in my book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States, refugees and immigrants of color, in particular, have bee…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…countries like Uganda and Nigeria for getting gay rights wrong—even as the United States itself has only “gotten it right” for about three years—American liberals reinforce the notion that LGBT equality is Western, and, even worse, remind many in Africa of the patriarchal colonialist attitude that we Westerners are advanced, and you Africans are backward. Human Rights First published a fact sheet highlighting Africans who have spoken on behalf of…

Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…lly: Who seems more like a drug addict? (In his most recent address to the United Nations, Qaddafi managed to speak for well over an hour, and included a rambling aside on J.F.K.’s assassination.) But back to the United Nations. The representative from the Libyan delegation spoke for nearly an hour about the so-called crisis of 1948, when India and Pakistan had been partitioned. In fact he was confusing the subcontinent for mandatory Palestine, as…

Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

By Daniel Schultz

…gly, shall we say. Some of them let it rip. Cameron Trimble, leader of the United Church of Christ’s Center for Progressive Renewal, had this to say: For the sake of the people we are, the people we love and the planet we live within, you must prepare yourself for leadership. You are now ordained a public theologian, a freedom fighter, a prophet, a disciple, a visionary, a love warrior. You are fierce, and you are wise. Most of all, you are undaun…

Muslim-Americans Aren’t Terrorists

By Hussein Rashid

…ested at an early stage of their activities. • Eleven Muslim Americans have successfully executed terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11, killing 33 people. This is about 3 deaths per year. There have been approximately 150,000 murders in the United States since 9/11. According to the FBI there were approximately 15,241 murders in the United States in 2009. • Tips from the Muslim American community provided the source of information th…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…when it comes to taxpayer funding of abortions,” reads his lede) and got a number of vague answers which suggested that US anti-choicers don’t feel particularly inclined to export the abortion wars to Israel. But Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, who is Christian, ventured into a suggestion that perhaps the Israelis were getting their own religious laws wrong: Dr. Charmaine Yoest, the CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), decided to u…