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How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas

By Stephen Mucher

…st’s birth while donning the mantle of empire. Empire offers context for a New Testament story about a poor, pregnant, unwed woman, lacking documentation, health care, or affordable housing, who crossed borders on her way to a post-war occupied Palestinian village called Bethlehem. Empire explains why foreigners and seasonal laborers were among the first to share the joy in her son’s humble and homeless birth. Empire explains a judicial system 33…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…ek with Newsmax.com, a conservative website (that pushes the Obama-was-born-in-Kenya conspiracy theory), Franklin Graham, an evangelist like his father, Billy Graham, claimed that the fundamentalist Islamic political group has burrowed into the Obama administration and is shaping US foreign policy. Sounding a bit like Glenn Beck, Graham explained: The Muslim Brotherhood is very strong and active in our country. It’s infiltrated every level of our…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ce. Haber, who also writes criticism and journalism, is the co-founder of e-book publisher Dutch Kills Press, which published Uggs for Gaza in March. RD spoke with him to learn more about the questions of ethnicity posed by the collection and what it means to be Jewish in America today. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. This collection, in many ways, is about the American male Jewish experience. Is it essentially a me…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…son Bible. The long, strange history of the object is now the subject of a new book by Peter Manseau, The Jefferson Bible: A Biography. Peter Manseau is the Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History as well as a prolific writer who has written a number of pieces for RD. Gordon Haber spoke to Manseau by phone. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Tell us about the Je…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…Right events, tracking their leaders, and monitoring their media. The well-crafted book is packed with details, anecdotes, and vignettes assembled into a widely-accessible and logical sequence. Republican Gomorrah opens with two chapters that explore the philosophical call to resistance by popular theologian Francis A. Schaeffer and the insurgent theocracy of Christian Reconstructionism developed by R.J. Rushdoony. This fascinating historic tour…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…hes in eight high-poverty neighborhoods and surveyed 1,206 residents of low-income housing complexes adjacent to these congregations. Many of the congregations had small or moderate-sized memberships, with 17 percent of the congregations reporting memberships of less than 100 and 49 percent reporting memberships between 100 and 499. The membership of these congregations came mainly from outside the neighborhoods, with sixty percent of the congrega…

Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment

By Christopher Douglas

…rket, with books about missionary lives; genres like testimonials; and self-help books about marriage, family and child-rearing. These new “evangelical” publishers became successful in the 1950s, working with new evangelical bookstores that enjoyed huge growth since the 1970s—but which, Silliman tells us at the end of his book, are largely disappearing. Evangelical bookstores, for Silliman, constitute a “discourse community” alongside other “hubs…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…ive readers a new understanding of how Protestantism came to North America. It’s beautiful. It’s a revolution. I love both of these books—even as my own book is so different from them—because of their trained focus on the details within individual lives. What’s your next book? My new project is on religion, violence, and the frontier. It’s called “Spiritual Battlefields: A Religious History of the Indian Wars, 1860-1890.” I have only two chapters…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…igher proportion than in the other main parties. Mexico: More pro- and anti-equality organizing In the face of growing activism by anti-LGBT religious groups, advocates of marriage equality have launched a new social media campaign, #SíAcepto. The National Front for the Family delivered more than half a million signatures opposing the presidential initiative on marriage equality and the teaching of “gender ideology.” Some LGBT activists have blame…

How Men’s Rights Activists Are Finding Unlikely Allies in New Atheism: #MeToo, the Manosphere, and the “Church of Feminism”

By Caroline Matas

…roups claiming to be victimized by the political Left. So, what does this “New Atheism” have in common with the Manosphere? Surveys within the Men’s Rights community have found that a stunning 70 percent of active participants identify as atheist, agnostic, or religiously indifferent. My work in rhetorical analysis of these communities has sought to determine what qualities lead men to identify with both groups. What I’ve found is that the communi…