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American Family Association Targets Radio Hosts Over Association With Critic

By Warren Throckmorton

…. Earlier this week, Jim Stanley, program director of AFA’s radio network, American Family Radio, sent notices to two talk show hosts who are associated with Howse, informing them that continued presence on the AFA’s radio network was conditioned on severing ties with Howse. The talk show hosts, John Loeffler and Todd Friel, have shows aired by American Family Radio and also speak at Howse sponsored events. According to Tim Wildmon, president of t…

An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage

By Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj

…a sham. We Muslims are already a deeply marginalized people in mainstream American culture. More than half of Americans have a negative view of us. One-third of Americans—that’s more than one hundred million people—want us to carry special IDs so that they can easily identify us as Muslim. We shouldn’t be perpetuating our marginalization by marginalizing others. Rejecting the right to same-sex marriage, but then expecting empathy for our communit…

The Sacred Myths of My People: A 4th of July Reflection

By Kate Blanchard

…uninvestigated, presumably subservient to simple “facts.” The creation of new museums dedicated to American Indians or African American history and culture is a sign that some part of our civic culture is slowly waking up to the ways that Americans live—indeed have always lived—in different universes, though these undoubtedly intersect and overlap. There is simply no comparing the universe in which I live to the universe of George Washington, or…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…ons. As Jay Michaelson wrote at The Daily Beast, “climate denial was ‘fake news’ before ‘fake news’ was a thing, and it’s part of the Republican mainstream, not the Trumpist fringe.” There’s a double bind here: we must acknowledge the awful of this event just as we acknowledge the awful coast-to-coast ecological meltdown politically geo-engineered across time. The duty of scholars of religion and theologians is to expose the religious stories that…

Hanukkah Marks the Complexities of Assimilation and Syncretism Faced by American Jews

By Yehuda Kurtzer

…ish altogether,” but the stuff of “what is this Judaism that I’ve chosen.” American Jews are multitudes in our identities and ideologies, and I welcome the messiness. The choices that others make do not always conform to my own; but the acceptance of that difference is essential for me to want my own autonomous choices to be taken seriously as well. I’m also enthralled by the vast expressions of difference among Jews seeking a relationship to Juda…

There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS

By Paul Harvey

…aison d’être of distributing scriptures. The ABS subsequently moved into a new building in New York City, and resumed its work: “Scriptures needed to be distributed. Morality needed to be restored. And the United States needed to be returned to its biblical heritage.” Into the 1970s, the ABS sought to “reassert its historical connection to Christian nationalism” by realigning itself away from mainstream Protestants and more towards conservative ev…

Note to CPAC Conservatives: “City [Up]on a Hill” Wasn’t About American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…rbella in 1630 (originally “city upon a hill”). Winthrop wasn’t suggesting American Exceptionalism (America did not yet exist of course), it was about the deal his flock had made with God. The sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity”—that’s right Charity—was about his shipmates’ charitable obligations to each other. A look at some other, less oft-quoted lines, may shed some light on what this founding (god)father intended by his powerful picture tha…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…5143105118208 https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/880287503265280000 Most Americans root their moral precepts in faith, or at least they say they do. And Americans are practical universalists in some important senses. They like to think that “God is bigger than those things which seek to divide us,” as Rev. Traci Blackmon preached today; that although each faith has its own peculiarities, in the end they all point back to the same God with the sa…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…ship of educated people who were interested in the questions raised by the new atheists. And I wanted both theists and atheists to find the book challenging and thought-provoking. Some recent responses to the new atheists are full of rhetorical jabs and belligerent verbal attacks clearly meant to appeal to a loyal following of believers, readers who want to cheer and pump their fists as “their guy” strikes back against the opponent. People who are…

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…January 2. In that column, he writes, I “reflected on the polarization of American religious rhetoric.” Wrong. Even a cursory reading of that column would see that the sentence he quotes was not part of a general reflection on American religious rhetoric. It was part of a valedictory reflection on the (quite reasonable) journalistic constraints governing the Beliefs column and the personal challenge of writing it. Here is the sentence that Jordan…