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Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…allegations that the Ukraine war is being fought so that Jewish people can buy the land. Violent ideations are implied in the posts. For example, he states that “any journalist” saying that there is no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election “should be dragged out into the street and shot.” Under a “Spirituality” tag are posts discussing quantum mechanics and consciousness; gnosticism; and the statement that “belief creates reality”—all commo…

The New “Values Voters” Mantra

By Sarah Posner

…OH-16), and Tom Perriello (VA-5). In a press release about the $125,000 ad buy, FRC highlighted its campaign against Perriello, a Democrat representing a swath of central and southwest Virginia who was once considered a poster child for the Democrats’ faith outreach. After helping to launch Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Faithful America, Perriello beat Republican incumbent Virgil Goode in 2008, but is now virtually tied in the poll…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…South through a variegated interpretive lens; and besides, would consumers buy into this multifaceted vision anyway? Don’t they pay to be fed Othering narratives that package a simplistic version of Dixie for convenient consumption? If ever there were a bullseye target for this kind of elitist and unhelpful framing, it would surely be Southern Gospel music. Emerging from the postbellum South, the music swelled from its roots in amateur shapenote s…

An Open Letter to Kim Davis From a Gay Pastor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ime for every time someone called me “a hypocrite of a Christian,” I could buy Kentucky outright. So I deeply understand your pain. But what causes me the greatest pain, Kim, is your blindness to the pain and anguish you continue to inflict upon my community. You say in the interview that “a piece of paper” cannot confer dignity upon people and that you feel sorry for people who need that. Well, our community doesn’t need your pity. What we do nee…

Focusing on the Tebow Family

By Sarah Posner

…by now you’ve heard about Focus on the Family’s $2.5 million Super Bowl ad buy for a 30-second spot about how the mother of football star Tim Tebow, facing a possibly deadly medical condition during her pregnancy, rejected her doctor’s advice to have an abortion. Pro-choice groups are calling on CBS to pull the ad because Focus on the Family is an “extremist group” and CBS’s decision to air an anti-choice ad was “outrageous.” The United Church of…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…es who use corporate banks and credit cards, take loans we can’t pay back, buy products from and invest in tax-evading multinational corporations, and vote for jerks who put special interests before the public interest. Which is not to say those in power do not have a greater responsibility to the public good. We ourselves have [plenty] to atone for. We have our own sins for which we are culpable. On the Facebook page, you write, “is fasting and b…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…a cruel and selfish act. To explain the motives for terrorism is often to buy into that narrative. After the Charlie Hebdo murders, for example, when George Packer argued that ideology was to blame, some of the people likeliest to agree with him were probably members of al Qaeda. Blame is more closely related to justification than we often admit. Both seek clarity. In response, we might want to acknowledge—regularly, forcefully—everything that we…

A Test for Trump—And the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…best positioned candidate to handle immigration. That’s a pretty stunning number given Moore’s very public rejections of Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, and is indicative of one kind of split among these voters. But voters who will self-identify as “born again” or “evangelical” to a pollster are not a monolith. As Warren Smith argues at WORLD magazine, “watching Joel Osteen on TV doesn’t make you an evangelical.” Smith calls the evangelical supp…

A Tale of Two Photos

By Ira Chernus

…his time of year, when our public discourse is torn between pro forma praise of the Prince of Peace and the reality of a last mad dash to the store to buy just one more absolutely necessary commodity? Or is it just coincidence?…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…ing their own food and learning to live “off the grid” a bit more. I don’t buy that it’s because the economy may collapse so completely that we won’t even be able to get bread at the supermarket. I think it’s because, in our online age, people want to be connected to stuff, to “real” things like soil and sweat and fruit. And I think that’s part of what’s behind the OWS protests. Their rhetoric is sometimes anti-capitalist. But it’s never anti-Ste…