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Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

…ecover our own ability to live more faithfully in the world. But there are signs of hope and change. There have been significant symbolic transformations in our cultural landscape, catalyzed by the massive marches in support of the Black Lives Matter movement that erupted throughout the summer of 2020 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer. In my home state, the Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC), the local arm of t…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…by those who, in the pride of their kingdom, put the Lord to death.” By consigning Jews to the theological status of servus, or slave, Augustine laid the intellectual groundwork for the political status of Jews a millennium later. In the Middle Ages, European monarchs “insisted that the Jews belonged to them in a peculiar way, different from that of their other subjects” (emphasis Nirenberg’s). Thus the king could use the Jews as tax collectors an…

Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?

By Arri Eisen

…s increasing amounts of real money to go against those values—or rather to sign a document that said they would go against it. The scientists couldn’t ethically challenge the actual sacred value, but they could challenge the participants’ integrity in relation to that value. Then Berns used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see what parts of the brain were active during these transactions. The Sacred is Not About Utility For the rese…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…ries, universities, and other institutions.” P.E.A.C.E. is an acronym for: Promote reconciliation; Equip servant leaders; Assist the poor; Care for the sick; and Educate the next generation. “For the past four years, thousands of members of Saddleback Church have been testing prototypes of the P.E.A.C.E. Plan around the world,” the release continued. “During this phase, called P.E.A.C.E 1.0, more than 7,700 members volunteered on over a thousand P…

White Christian Complaints About Religious Persecution Are Especially Ugly on MLK Day

By Sunnivie Brydum

…port of the incoming administration of such efforts (Trump has promised to sign FADA, and Vice President-elect Mike Pence has a long history of supporting “religious freedom” efforts that legally privilege conservative religious morality), the new president of the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) says he is preparing for the coming assault on those who hold tight to certain faith-based convictions. As Right Wing Watch reported Friday, i…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…and as The Wordy Anglo-Protestant Tradition—a tradition that also inflects significant parts of American Judaism. When something moves us or provokes us, what do we do? We write a manifesto or a platform statement or a treatise. We issue declarations. We ask people to sign our statement; join our remonstrance. And, just as massive rocks along the shore repel the pounding waves and reduce them to mere mist, our adversaries—especially our religious…

Michael Jackson, Perfect “God” for the Media Age

By Kathryn Lofton

…Web and around the globe? Some people are claiming all the hype is a clear sign that Satan rules the world, that MJ is not only not deserving of all this adulation, he is, even worse, some kind of monster that represents the golden calf rather than a human truly worthy of respect. But others, many others, write about cherished memories, about profound impressions that will last a lifetime, about worldly impact that is so inexpressible, so indescri…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…table racial divisions. As an alternative Trump declared that day he would sign “an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education” called the “1776 Commission.” This initiative would help develop a “pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.” “Our nation’s great history.” That statement might sound ironic coming from a President and supporters who have passionately resist…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…licy circles in North America and Europe and by many academics invested in promoting religious freedom). It is, rather, an inescapably context-bound, polyvalent concept unfolding within divergent histories in differing political orders. This realization has led us to pose a number of crucial questions to those engaged in the promotion of religious freedom as a stable and singular human right. These questions, explored in detail in the PoRF volume…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

A sure sign that change is afoot in Cuba is the opening of the first Roman Catholic seminary since the 1959 revolution. President Raul Castro was in attendance, as was Archbishop Thomas Wenski and several other priests from Miami. In the wake of the Church’s continued involvement in the release of over fifty political prisoners on the island, last week’s inauguration is a material symbol of the easing tensions between the Cuban government and the…