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‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…e white supremacists. The emergence of many of these groups paralleled the galvanization of desegregationist and anti-racist forces from the mid-century forward. A group regarded by advocates and critics alike as the ideological backbone of the contemporary white supremacist movement is “Christian Identity,” which asserts “White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people [are] God’s true, literal Children of Israel” and that all non-white peoples (…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…ry question they ask is often framed in the same way: people are leaving organized religion, so what can churches do to get them back? or, if it’s an election year, how will this religious disaffiliation affect their vote? Rarely do those who study religious disaffiliation ask the more difficult kinds of questions that are likely to yield more complex answers: Why did you leave? What did this do to your family? Where did it lead you, spiritually a…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…bers that I found interesting. Apparently, according to Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho, my reading of the numbers—which was more critical than his—amounted to an “extended raspberry.” Just to get a couple of housekeeping details out of the way. Obviously, my dogma/doctrine typo was just that, as was the difference in Francis’ and Benedict’s net favorability rating, which is 11 points, not 6. But my point remains. Given the near-consensus that Benedic…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…se story has been brilliantly told in a recent book by Ingrid Rowland) and Galileo Galilei (who was forced to recant in 1633), and the argument over who started it all. (The complicated case of Giordano Bruno is treated at Volume I: 862-972 [he was repeatedly imprisoned after 1593, placed on trial in 1598, then killed in 1600], the posthumous case against Copernicus’s book is treated at II: 1473-1481 [it was prohibited in 1598], and yet most curio…

After More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews

By Peter Laarman

…o. He let Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” do the talking for him. Hearing Gaye’s exquisite plaintive voice allowed me to weep openly. Weep for a country that seems irredeemably lost in so many ways, a country where, in the words of Paul Simon’s equally haunting “American Tune”: I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered or driven to its knees The thing is, we…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…press conference, directed at Johnson. Elected Republican representatives gathered behind him began jeering, with North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx shouting “Shut up!” Johnson smiled in response, serenely shaking his head, and called for the next question. The case of Mike Johnson shows that a theocratic worldview isn’t merely the province of the strident evangelist—it can just as easily hide behind a smile and a polite demeanor. Apparently…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…quibbles: at one point Lehmann has late 18th-century “Calvinists” pitted against “Congregationalists,” which is confusing inasmuch as it was the “New Light” Calvinists who had drifted away from the idea of covenantal righteousness, whereas the Congregationalists sought to preserve the old austere communal religion. Similarly, Lehmann may be slightly ahead of himself in suggesting that acquisitive individualism was already an officially licensed b…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as anti-gay. On the secular side, progress is being made to lift Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell that bans gays and lesbians from military service. There has also been movement, however slowly, on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), barring discrimination against gay, lesbian, and even transgender people in the workforce. While progress for equality for gays and lesbians within society, and the church especially, may be slow in coming, the arc of…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ring on March 25, the day a court in the city of Nizhni Tagil dismissed a “gay propaganda” case against Deti 404’s administrator, Elena Klimova. Klimova told Human Rights Watch that she had not yet seen the ruling and did not know the specifics of the court‘s decision. Neither Klimova, nor the group’s lawyers knew that the court had changed the date of the hearing to March 25. As a result of the ruling, Russia’s state agency for media oversight co…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…Medicaid three or four times.” You could be forgiven for thinking that Reagan was God, or at least a patron saint, given the number of times he was name-checked in the debate. Mostly it went like this. The candidates did talk about hot-button social issues, but they held back from claiming religious sponsorship of their ideas. It’s not clear if they’d gotten the memo about not antagonizing religiously unaffiliated voters, or if they simply didn’t…