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6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

In September 2014, I found myself standing before a mostly hostile Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) testifying about religious imbalance and inaccuracies in public school textbooks under consideration for adoption. To my great surprise, I also found myself quoted in Politico, the Washington Post, and several Texas newspapers. Al Jazeera America sought me out for an on-camera interview. For a religious studies scholar more at home in the clas…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ican, if need be with force, either by the police or by wielding a gun themselves. And while the absolute right to gun ownership has been a core belief on the American Right since at least the Reagan years, the allegiance of today’s GOP to guns has never been so brazen or flamboyant. The AR-15—the gun with which a disproportionate number of mass shootings in the US are committed—has become a central part of White Christian nationalist iconography,…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…s captivated the right. Most recently, Barton’s post, “America’s Most Biblically-Hostile President,” details a theme that has become known to the public largely through the Gingrich/Santorum bloc: that Barack Obama has led the most actively anti-Christian administration in American history. This is a talking point with a lot of traction across the airwaves and blogosphere of the right. Given Obama’s frequent Christian testimony—explicit enough to…

Shucking Off The ’50s. And the ’40s. And the…

By Daniel Schultz

…ven though many of its members are drawn to its individualist ethos and fiscal conservatism. Democrats, meanwhile, remain captive to the housing-finance-auto industrial complex which literally defined the old order. As the Cato Institute’s Brink Lindsey quipped some years ago, “Here, in the first decade of the 21st century, the rival ideologies of left and right are both pining for the ’50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there,…

To Be Atheist, Feminist, and Black

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…and situates black humanism within a culturally relevant tradition of critically conscious scholarship and political analysis. Further, over the past few years there has been greater interest in atheism and humanism in black and Latino communities. Black atheists/humanists struggle to make their voices heard amidst a values backlash. This backlash has had both internal and external consequences. Non-conformist African Americans are policed inside…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…particular, have been able to marshal. The work of denominational, ecumenical, and interfaith bodies in backing and blessing the unionized workers has been crucially important. Much credit for this goes to the nimble and effective coordinating work of Interfaith Worker Justice, the Chicago-based umbrella group for dozens of local and regional religion-labor coalitions across the country. One reason religious types have come to the defense of publ…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…til 1965). Magnate Herbert Kohler and his minions attempted to paint UAW Local 833’s striking members as vandals and thugs, but in fact it was the company that hired vigilantes, corrupted the county sheriffs, and bent political leaders to join its relentless campaign to destroy the union. All this is well-documented. UAW chief Walter Reuther, every bit as tough as old man Kohler, poured still more resources into the fight—ultimately paying a relat…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…o game producers, upholding a federal appeals court decision overturning a California state law (passed in 2005 but never enforced) that prohibited the sales of violent video games to minors. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia presented the 7-2 ruling as a defense of free speech and the free circulation of ideas. That’s been a consistent theme for the Roberts court, which in recent years has in the name of freedom of speech legalized…

Martin Luther & the Mass Media

By Svend White

…n of the life of this pivotal figure in Christian history (and modernity itself), the film is an aesthetic feast that teems with stellar acting, gorgeous costumes, and breathtaking cinematography. Martin Luther’s story contains many lessons, even for the non-religious. Foremost among them, I think, is the fact that nothing in intellectual history is foreordained. There is an instinctive tendency to view history in a Hegelian manner, as if truth al…

Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?

By Gordon Haber

…, in the Spanish city of Toledo, Elvira del Campo was brought before the local tribunal of the Inquisition. Del Campo, a scrivener’s wife, had been accused of avoiding pork—in other words, of secretly practicing Judaism. Del Campo admitted that she didn’t eat pork, claiming that it disagreed with her. But even as the inquisitor threatened torture, she insisted that she was a good Christian. So she was brought to the torture chamber, where the inte…