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Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…and even the administration’s own back-and-forth on some key legislative priorities as evidence of successfully organized resistance. And despite the overwhelming sense of constant calamity that Trump’s tweets tend to elicit, Berry sees room for progress. Because the administration’s assault on civil rights has largely been an attempted death by a thousand (regulatory) paper cuts, “what you have to do is oppose them by a thousand cuts,” Berry exp…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…be noted that, as the Times and others have noted, the order effectively prioritizes Christian refugees by giving priority to “minority religion[s].” Trump may relish in the fact that for his followers he’s taking action, but this gesture is empty. Muslim bans and immigrations freezes will not make the United States safe. Terrorism is the act of the socially alienated and politically desperate and unless the conditions that produce terrorism are…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…onto the Supreme Court, among other things. But as I say, his reputation primarily stems from defending (well) clients who want to proclaim conservative Christian messages in the public square. Behind those messages lies the belief that conservative Christians have been unfairly marginalized in civil discourse by evil atheists like Madelyn Murray O’Hehir, a secular educational and political establishment, and liberal traitors to the true faith li…

Risky Business: The Pitfalls at the Corner of Church & Wall Street

By Elizabeth Drescher

…al markets themselves? Protestant Work Ethic 2.0 Joy Anderson, founder of Criterion Ventures (and a principal, with Freundlich, in Jones’ Good Capital investment firm), believes that churches can and should be active economic agents. Anderson notes that, without doing anything at all in terms of mission-driven economic initiative, churches are “economic beings”—passive and active aggregators and redistributors of capital. Like it or not, she argue…

A Twisted Love Story: How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right

By Katherine Kelaidis

…and the suppression of a region’s historical Christian institutions to be primarily about themselves. And so, American evangelicals set about converting Russia to Christianity, a task that even a brief look at history would have revealed was already accomplished by the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages. Almost immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, American evangelicals began to flood into Russia, with a generation coming of age…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…natural family planning, which relies on calculating a women’s infertile period during her menstrual cycle and only having sex on those days. The “rhythm method,” as natural family planning was called in the early 1960s, was notoriously unreliable, however, which made it a poor option for women like Cahill who really, really didn’t want another child. The Catholic Church’s absolute ban on modern methods of contraception is inextricably linked to i…

LGBT Christians Respond to Southern Baptists’ Call For Kindness, Understanding

By Mike Greer

…rom those who still see this approach as valid, like the IRD’s Chelsen Vicari, writing in the Christian Post.) These small steps toward the unified recognition of the reality of same-sex attractions was something new for Southern Baptists. During the conference it was made clear that there was no sin or abnormality in such attractions, as long as one remained celibate. Although these changes were not seen as sufficiently meaningful by many of the…

Punks vs. Monks: Rockers Speak Out Against Genocide in Myanmar

By M. Sophia Newman

…ised the monks. Meanwhile, President Thein Sein has reacted to the humanitarian crisis by asking the UN to remove the Rohingya from Myanmar. (The UN declined.) Punks, in contrast, exist as an underground movement with minimal government ties. Prior to the 2010 government change, they operated largely in secret. It is unclear whether the tiny punk movement in urban Myanmar has substantial connections to Rohingya people or other Muslims or to any o…

As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments

By Chrissy Stroop

…o he builds. The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions…” He added, chillingly, “The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.” Go to top Calling for terrorism against the US State Department Robertson in…

The “Mormon Moment” Yields… Not So Much

By Joanna Brooks

…oportion is 42%. And when asked to give a one asked to give a one-word descriptor of Mormonism, the number of respondents offering a positive word like “good,” or “honest,” increased from 18% in 2011 to 24% in 2012. All of these gains were concentrated among Republicans voting for Romney, naturally. Still, the number one word survey participants associated with Mormons? “Cult.” And fully 27% of survey respondents still have no idea what religion…