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Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…d not actually started the third grade . . . Grown-ups did not understand that summers were free from grades.” She also catches grown-ups speaking earnest nonsense. Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel may be about, as her teacher tells her, “digging the basement of the town hall,” but Ramona knows that her pressing question, namely, “how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom when he was digging the basement of the…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…s to get married and have children, lots of children. If you’re not doing that, what you’re doing is dishonorable. If a National Conservative does have children, Hazony says, do not make the mistake of sending them to public schools “where they’re being turned into neo-marxists”—something that according to him, also applies to the people in the conference room itself. “We’re also talking about people in this room!” If you send your children to uni…

God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

By Anthony B. Pinn

…the loss of faith, but rather the limits of faith in the face of tragedy. What is so important, what is so impressive, during this tragedy is not the faithful appeals to God but rather the collective human effort to comfort the suffering and to remember the value of human life. Trying both to resolve such tragedies and keep God on the throne actually impedes our ability to process this misery. The appeal to God’s logic offers a type of cosmic cove…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…due any non-Christian and non-white peoples they “encounter.” It declares that they are free to conquer by any means necessary and with the full blessing of God, church, and king. And of course the idea here was that the benefits of bringing “civilization” to the New World, and Christianizing it, could outweigh any of the atrocities committed along the way. So that’s colonial Christianity, and we are still dealing with the legacy of that today. We…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…ertheless, are these not remarkable simply at the level of imagination and hate speech? What if secular leftists or radical Muslims were to advocate similar scenarios of armed struggle or to use similar hate speech? What if they controlled television networks and were leading presidential candidates? Would federal prosecutors and mainstream news networks tolerate the same behavior? Is it not remarkable that we take such things for granted from Rob…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, the frank sense that all religions aim at the same essential truths and that what the Veda said first, Jesus said conclusively. The inhabitants of the Age of Aquarius just so happen to be especially ready for the revelation. There is a surprising degree of self-congratulation and a brash spiritual self-confidence in this claim, which is another important feature of the New Age landscape to keep in mind, especially in its early 20th-century incar…

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…here) who met with the autocrat for a cozy chat. It’s understood at these chats, however, that some quotes—those that would damage the leader’s reputation, for example—do not leave the meeting room. Dreher hadn’t gotten the memo, causing something of a diplomatic incident. As The Bulwark‘s Balázs Gulyás reports, Dreher quoted Orbán verbatim in The American Conservative, not only saying “We are in a war with Russia. That’s the reality. . . . Every…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…and stayed to help out. But that’s exactly who I am. I really understand what that’s like, to come in shame and fear to some church and be fed—and then want to stick around to help others. And people want to give something, so much. They wind up giving to people who aren’t like them, or who irritate them, or people they adore. And it’s funny, the desire of churches to make it into a social service program is so profound—like we have this idea tha…

Dubious Diversity at America Mag

By Patricia Miller

…, by making unsubstantiated claims such as “when you give money to groups that not only promote contraception but also promote abortion in an integrated way, you actually drive abortion rates up, not down.” Since 2000, Alvaré has taught law and brought her own brand of cherry-picked data tendentiously linked to the supposed dangers of abortion and contraception wrapped up as concern for women’s health and well-being to the Robert George/Witherspoo…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…mber one podcasts, number one sermon downloads, those kinds of things. So what that did is, elevated Mark to the stratosphere so quickly, whereas you might think…typically they may take 20-30 years of faithful ministry, but the Internet just propelled things with such rapidity, and the Internet only sees how you speak, that’s all the Internet is, it’s all about verbal articulation so it doesn’t say what’s your leadership structure, doesn’t hold an…