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Rubio’s Awkward Balancing Act Between Evangelicals and Catholics

By Patricia Miller

…re Christian nationalism of Ted Cruz and Rubio’s kinder, gentler approach that focuses on his “personal relationship with Jesus.” Writing in RNS, Jonathan Merritt says that while the ad is a “mishmash of religious beliefs and Bible verses,” he finds it “surprisingly cogent.” But the ad strikes me as an awkward—if wishful—amalgamation of evangelical, and Evangelical Catholic, inward-focused concern with faith and how that faith is expressed publicl…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…ise looked like the deeds of an individual or two, or even a small group. That’s what we need now regarding the “wolf pack” of white supremacists. But how can we even be sure the individual domestic terrorists in El Paso or Pittsburgh represent a “pack”? And how can we act while protecting our First Amendment right to free speech? Leaving aside spectacles of wolf-pack frenzy like Charlottesville’s torchlight parade, we don’t routinely see these wo…

Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

By Anthea Butler

…rder, especially the Democrats’ version of government order, has to fail. What most liberals, Christians included, don’t understand, is that destruction paves the way for a new order ordained by God according to this belief system.” Palin’s latest bus tour has an additional twist, as it is designed to destroy her possible GOP presidential rivals’ media coverage. Palin is putting a wet finger in the wind — or “Gideon’s fleece,” in Pentecostal parla…

With the End of ‘Roe’ the Verdict is in: The Supreme Court Majority is Christian Nationalist

By Andrew L. Seidel

…five Covid justices began rewriting the law using the shadow docket. And that’s what it just did to gut Roe v. Wade. It used this emergency procedure which has minimal briefing and no argument to rob Texans of their bodily autonomy and institute a vicious mob rule that harkens back to some of the worst imagery in American history. The five justices of the judicial apocalypse eagerly ignored procedure and precedent to privilege the Bible-perusing…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…t want to have soup kitchens or social welfare programs, God doesn’t like what FDR is doing. What about the up-and-out? Don’t they deserve love as well? Doesn’t Henry Ford need somebody to love him? Who needs Ayn Rand when you have The Family? Even for rank and file religious right activists, who draw on Christian Reconstructionism and Christian anti-communism born in the Cold War and surviving today, the government should stay out of these social…

A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

By Emily Manuel

…g is inherently one thing, it always takes place within a certain context that determines what its language should be. There should be more recognition of the damage that language of redemption brings to people’s lives too. Does that mean we should evaluate suffering on a case-by-case basis? Yes, we need to respond to concrete circumstances and particular cases. Can you talk a bit about how you imagine sin in this reading? Basically, in my final c…

Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community

By Andre E. Key, Walter Isaac, and Tamar Manasseh

…ary American religious landscape, the problematizing of Black spirituality promotes what we call “slave-shaming.” The phrase is in quotes because technically there’s no such thing as a “slave.” From antiquity the label of “slave” was used to designate people as “things” (i.e. the living property of another). But no human being is merely a thing; to call someone a “slave” was a way of denigrating their full humanity. On the societal level, this den…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…rify itself….it is in continual growth.” However, he also said, “If I see that this, what we think now, is in connection with revelation, good. But if it is a strange thing that is not according to revelation … it doesn’t work. In the case of the diaconate, we have to see what was there at the beginning of revelation. If there was something, let it grow, let it live. If there was not something … it doesn’t work.” Would millions of women feeding th…

Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nflict-averse fussbudget nor an aggressively overcompensating dudebro. Is that fair? ML: Yes, that’s fair. The model Rogers offers—one of being peace—is more closely aligned with Zen Buddhism than with the macho form of Christian pacifism that you so accurately identify. Thich Nhat Hanh once said that marching in the streets does not create peace. And while I don’t agree with him entirely—marchers did a lot to end the Vietnam War—he is right to su…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ecause my country gave myself and my family so much,” said, Carroll. “And that’s what immigrants are all about. Recognizing that this country is a special place. The only place in the land that can give a person like me the ladders to climb if I choose to climb it.” Carroll delivered her comments with passionate sincerity. But as one speaker after another offered the same caricature of “Critical Race Theory” as the centerpiece of their presentatio…