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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…tegory outside of white evangelicals; the Utah College Exit Poll, however, with a much higher number of Mormon participants, put the number closer to 45 percent. Both figures are well below previous Mormon voting percentages for the Republican candidates, but they indicate that at least half of Latter-day Saints were willing to stomach Trump’s apparent moral deficiencies. This turn of events has historical precedent. Though the LDS Church’s politi…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…news most recently as an influence on Michele Bachmann) went head to head with several evangelical historians within the academy. It started when Schaeffer wrote an anti-secularist battle plan, A Christian Manifesto (1981), intended to get Christians engaged in politics. Evangelicals must “own” America’s Christian heritage said Schaeffer. The nation was founded on the principles of the Bible and the Reformation, he argued, and the founders “under…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…dence—is, to Ham’s organization, a sign that scientists have planted their flag with humans’ relativistic and sinful reasoning rather than God’s unchanging truth. For instance, Answers in Genesis rejects the theory of evolution on the grounds that it would disprove the timeline of Earth’s history set out in the book of Genesis and compromise Christians’ belief in “the character of our loving God.” While they claim their view is nevertheless consis…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…), though in later interviews Jang claimed to be infiltrating the seminary with orthodox theology. With Jang’s credibility called into question, along with affiliated ministries like Olivet University in San Francisco, the World Evangelical Alliance, and the Christian Post, a number of these affiliates went on the defensive. No response was more immediate, or more aggressive, than that of the Christian Post. Different Standards At Work The day aft…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…mings. At the rally, there were men and women of all ages—some older, some with school-age kids, some with babies in strollers. In noting that some women were unable to attend the rally, Hagen lamented, without irony, “we women, we cannot win… we are working or we are home with the babies.” “We are united with men,” said Hagen in her speech. “They are not our oppressors.” Earlier in the week, Cummings had published an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun, e…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…ttee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, a little known backbencher with virtually no profile in the national media. As Michael Sean Winters noted in the National Catholic Reporter: …there was no “postcard campaign” like the bishops launched on previous issues of less significance, no full court press as it were. It is clear that so long as they get rid of the contraception mandate, many bishops are willing to look the other way if millions…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…their families and deny them equal rights as citizens. The second saddest number comes with its own silver lining. Public Policy Polling reported on Sunday that most North Carolina residents believe that gay couples should have access to some legal protections. But because most voters didn’t understand just how extreme and far-reaching the amendment before them today was, they would vote for it to “protect” marriage. According to PPP: In some sen…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…ith the flower’s beauty, I went to pick it, when a woman stopped me. “That flower will begin to wither the moment you pluck it,” she said. “If you must take it with you, pull it by the roots and take some of the native soil with you. Your hands will be dirty. You will need to provide your own pot, but you will preserve its beauty a little while longer.” To this day, I remember the woman’s words exactly—partly because I thought it was a pretty cool…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…ne? Why? Sigh. What springs to mind, generating considerable envy and much wishful thinking, ranges from Edmund De Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes and Orhan Pamuk’s The Innocence of Objects to Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole’s Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Genizah. A disparate lot, they’re bound together by the gloriousness of their prose, their acute sense of pacing and their wide-eyed, imaginative approach to material culture…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n since its announcement but has gained support from popular culture icons with massive followings in the Arab world, such as singer Carole Samaha: While homosexuality is punishable by death in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in Lebanon it is not explicitly outlawed. However it is still considered a criminal act… According to a global study by the Pew Research Centre, more than 80 per cent of Lebanese view homosex…