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Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…just say that Dutch Calvinism has never been especially kind to people of African descent. The once-mighty Dutch Republic grew rich from trade, with trade in black bodies forming a large part of it. The extent of slavery in New Netherland (renamed New York and New Jersey after 1664) shocked many when historians brought it to light beginning in the 1970s. And then there are those doughty Afrikaner cousins of ours, whose rigidly racist apartheid id…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…t also an absolute and joy-filled conviction that God is driving the Black freedom struggle forward despite it all. Today, as in King’s day, there is widespread dereliction of duty among the self-proclaimed faithful, but there is also a rising righteous remnant. There are hundreds of younger activists out there, primarily activists of color and many of them queer, who are walking courageously in faith even though they will tell you clearly and con…

Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e. He seems to have a semi-truck-sized blind spot for claims of “religious freedom,” and his testy refusal to discuss his thoughts on any potential or past case that comes before the Supreme Court is infuriating, if not unprecedented. But in the context of modern American jurisprudence, Gorsuch is hardly an ideologue. It’s a safe bet that Justice Gorsuch will maintain the conservative 5-4 split of the Court as it existed before Justice Antonin Sca…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.” And even more aggressively, he emphasized the violent conflict that would be necessary, concluding: “Together we are going to finish what we started, with you at my side, we will totally obliterate the Deep State, we will banish the warmongers, from our government, we will drive out the globalists and we will cast out the communists and marxists. We…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…reality that can maintain equal rights for two peoples. Omri Boehm’s Haifa Republic puts forth an interesting theory of shared sovereignty and dual autonomy whereby Jews would sacrifice part of their sovereignty to enable Palestinians to have true political autonomy in one state. Other theories of a Jewish-Arab confederation exist as well. Liberal Zionists have often mostly dismissed such ideas as “fantasy.” But one of Hartman’s contributions here…

With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…Law and the Gospel (1529), housed in the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, illustrates the theological principles which defined the Reformation. Here a figure who believes that his good works alone will guarantee his salvation is surprised to find that his actions alone can’t merit heaven. The cackling green demon pushes the figure into the mouth of hell. *** *** A group of accused witches from the East Lothian region dep…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…it the power of the federal government and increase the scope of religious freedom, particularly with respect to governmental interference with religious education. The joint ideological ascendancy of biblical literalism and constitutional originalism remains with us to the present. Evangelicalism still predominantly relies on a theology of biblical inerrancy, and constitutional originalism remains political orthodoxy for the Republican Party. Don…

Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ree most likely places Putin would strike next, along with Estonia and the Republic of Georgia. All have breakaway regions with large Russian-speaking populations and historical ties to both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; and all are the site of complex jurisdictional conflicts between the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and local independent Orthodox bishops, usually acting with the support of the Patriarchate of Constantinop…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…in institutional Christianity has opened space for a new brand of American Republicans anchored by “non-college-educated, middle- and lower-middle-class white people,” who “unapologetically place citizens over foreigners, majorities over minorities, the native-born over recent immigrants, the normal over the transgressive and fidelity to a homeland over cosmopolitan ideals.” Hochman concludes that declines in church attendance mean that the influe…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…ample of Dutch settler colonialism corresponding to the general pattern of freedom for us/unfreedom for others is of apartheid South Africa, where a notoriously brutal regime that, just like New England, saw itself as a “New Israel,” survived until 1990. This is the darker side of Calvinism that Robinson has seldom if ever discussed, and it would really help her case for Calvinist “liberality” if she could also acknowledge the shadow side. For exa…