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Revisiting the Hopeful Hijinks of the Muppets on the 30th Anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol

By Sara Kamali

…nd while religious studies scholars have long analyzed religious themes of Charles Dickens’ 1843 tale of morality and redemption—including how Jim Henson’s own religiosity may have influenced his work (he left the Christian Science Church in 1975), it’s not the intended or imposed Christianity that makes this film magical. The magic is in the unique alchemy of the Muppets themselves, their relationship with Michael Caine who plays Scrooge, and the…

One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…1958 address commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s and Alfred Russel Wallace’s essays on evolution by natural selection, the distinguished geneticist Hermann J. Muller lamented the neglect of evolution in American education. “It ill befits our great people,” he observed, “to turn our backs on it, to pretend that it is unimportant or uncertain, to adopt euphemistic expressions to hide and soften its impact,…

Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion

By Peter Laarman

…e, we could go all the way back to fulminating figures like Lyman Beecher, Charles G. Finney, and William Jennings Bryan in the 19th century, or to the likes of Lowell Thomas, John Gunther, and Edward R. Murrow in the early 20th; moralists all, white guys with wrinkled brows, really worried about America. You can imagine them all in a nicely furnished faculty club somewhere, sucking on their pipes and muttering darkly about the sorry state of affa…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…ly considered the founder of the movement, rather than his (white) mentor, Charles Fox Parham, who I think has a better claim. While this is largely for historical reasons—Seymour had a much larger audience in Los Angeles, and news of the revival was reported in the city’s press the same day as the San Francisco earthquake—it also speaks to the fact that, from the beginning, Pentecostalism has appealed to minorities, migrants, the downtrodden. Wil…

Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

By Katherine Kelaidis

…position as Hetman, Mazepa deserted his army and joined the forces of King Charles XII of Sweden. A Russian victory at the Battle of Poltava meant that Mazepa’s intention of bringing Ukraine into Swedish possession would never be realized, but the consequences of his changing sides have reverberated throughout Ukrainian and Russian history. Kirill’s claim that Mazepa has been recently rehabilitated in Ukraine is nothing short of accusing the curre…

As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward

By Lauren Barbato

…, member of Sisters of Mercy), three brothers, and moral theologian Father Charles Curran as the lone Catholic priest. Although the statement was not unequivocal in its stance on abortion, it was deliberate in its challenge of the teaching authority of the American bishops. Ruether later explained in “Catholics and Abortion: Authority vs. Dissent,” published in The Christian Century in 1985, that this truly was a “defense of Catholic legislators’…

This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right

By Cavan Concannon and Jill Hicks-Keeton

…ourt majority. But despite the fact that they’ve achieved so much as their numbers have dwindled, and often in deeply unorthodox ways, most commentators fail to mention, perhaps even to see, what enabled them do it. Our new book on evangelicalism in the US emphasizes that institution-building over more than a century has created a vast and evolving network of institutions that spreads ideas, mobilizes energy, and amplifies political and theologica…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.” Noting the large number of Gen-Z white men lurking around, I ask Hadar Hazony if he thinks any are supporters of white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his largely Gen-Z America First/groyper movement. He is certain, he claims, there are groypers at this year’s NatCon—or at least, the individuals he has in mind supported Fuentes last year. Despite this, he tells me that NatCon is vital, because…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…m devoid of government regulation. Amongst its members (past and present): Charles G. Koch of Koch Industries (one of the American Right’s most important mega donors), Thomas A. Roe (founder of right-wing bill mill, State Policy Network), and Edwin J. Feulner, the former president and co-founder of the right-wing Heritage Foundation. (Not coincidentally the Society has also been revealed to be the home of leading climate change-deniers as a free-m…

Pew Finds Trump-Era Increase in the ‘Evangelical’ Label — And Yes, They’re ‘Real’ Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…% in 2006 to about 14% at present (though they continue to vote in greater numbers than the general population, giving them disproportionate representation in elections). And in the 2020 election, nonreligious voters, a strongly progressive-leaning demographic, made up a full quarter of the electorate, for the first time outnumbering white evangelical voters who made up 19% of the electorate. It’s hard to know exactly how to square the Pew data su…