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Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…weekend’s news cycle brought important stories in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe about how Mitt Romney does business. The picture they paint is not entirely new, but it is consistent: Romney extracted value while, and sometimes by, outsourcing and destroying jobs, at times financing deals through “leveraged buyouts” that added substantially to the debts of companies trying to stay afloat. One source close to the GOP…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed most eloquently here on RD that Democrats need to get better at telling stories than at crunching the numbers, in this battle of the budget, the numbers actually matter. Hell, it’s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd…

Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?

By Gordon Haber

…nt after ideas, inventing the Index of Forbidden Books, roasting Giordano Bruno for espousing multiple worlds, censoring Galileo for his heliocentrism. It was a busy time for inquisitors: between the 16th and 18th centuries, they conducted perhaps 50,000 trials, resulting in about 1250 executions. But the Church, in the end, was overmatched by Enlightenment principles and Protestantism (even if the latter had its inquisitorial moments under Calvin…

Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ere alongside the relief agents to say if people read and understand God’s word there will be transformation in their lives,” he told Robertson. It’s no shock, I suppose, that Christians want to recruit others to be Christians, but other religions also demand that their adherents take care of the poor and needy. One need not be a Christian to heed the Bible’s call, the call of another religion, or the ethics of humanism to help lift people from po…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…/academic, and total competence and signiﬁcantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and externalizing problem behavior than their age-matched counterparts …” Being a lesbian, Gartrell obviously has a vested interest in those ﬁndings, right? Maybe, but her research has been backed up by the likes of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Social Workers, “who all…

McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

By Kathryn Joyce

…Palin’s homage to both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, and absorbs stories about her breaking glass ceilings, and while purist complementarians like Phillips are concerned about Palin’s self-description as a “prolife feminist,” more mainstream conservative Christians know just how tepid that feminism is. In Palin’s case, it’s that of “Feminists for Life,” which appropriates the terminology of women’s liberation to temper the often stark mi…

The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics

By Jesse Curtis

…on their congregations. The roots are healthy, but outside forces have corrupted the fruit. These assumptions should not stand unchallenged. Segregation as pragmatism It’s time for white evangelical leaders to consider the possibility that their own theology and institutions are at the center of the problem. To seriously consider this, white evangelicals need a history lesson and the willingness to finally listen to what Black evangelicals have b…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…s very mindful about saying, “This is how it has been for me. This is where I am right now.” I hope to invite people to think about their own lives, and I hope other people will step forward and offer their own stories so that we can build a larger canon of stories and ideas that demonstrate the value of having more open, challenging, compassionate, and patient conversations about religious differences….

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…, Te’o, and Parker—a pity, really. 4. Mormon feminists and allies organize worldwide “Pants to Church” Sunday to raise awareness and start dialogue about women’s issues in the LDS Church. With thousands of women and men (wearing purple in solidarity) participating worldwide, the event is the largest concerted feminist effort in Mormon history. Although internet reaction to the event is fierce—including threats of violence and ecclesiastical action…

7 Religion Stories to Watch in the 2012 Battleground States

By Joanna Brooks

…P Primary in Colorado handily but suffered an unexpected loss to Rick Santorum in February 2012. Given the Mormon population in Colorado, voters here should harbor less hesitation about Romney than voters in Southern states; still, Romney still faces real opposition from Colorado evangelicals, including Colorado-born Bryan Fischer and the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. Will Romney have to expend extra resources to bring Colorado evang…