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Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source

By David Zvi Kalman

…sville press conference in 2017. “Are we gonna take down statues of George Washington?” We’re supposed to say no, I think, for no matter where we place the invisible line between “villain” and “important-but-problematic-historical-figure,” there’s widespread agreement that an America with no monuments—without a Rushmore, or a Lincoln Memorial, or an MLK, or 101 Washingtons in marble and bronze—would be an America that had lost itself in the heat o…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ut did you see this crazy thing on Twitter? Mike Turner is one of the tiny number of Republicans in a position of influence within the GOP at the moment who has disavowed Trump’s remarks directly—although as far as I can tell, he hasn’t said anything about whether these remarks would prevent him from supporting the former president in 2024. Like Turner, minority whip John Thune, the second most powerful Republican in the Senate, said “of course I…

Maybe It’s Time to Admit That The “Grotesque Caricature” of White Evangelicals is the Reality

By Hollis Phelps

…in the Trump era. The organizer of the gathering, Doug Birdsall, told the Washington Post that under Trump’s leadership, the term “evangelical” has taken on too many negative associations, especially when it comes to racism and nationalism. The goal of the gathering, then, was to address these concerns while returning the word “evangelical” to its core meaning. Rather than a political pariah, an “evangelical” is simply “a person who believes in t…

The Senate Deal: Still Stroking the Rich [UPDATED]

By Peter Laarman

…t wasn’t necessary to say this, but it is: religiously and ethically, the “Washington consensus” tax deal is a disaster. The New Year’s Eve pas de deux between Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell produced a deal that people with lots of money will love. America’s really rich won’t be soaked at all under this deal; they will be stroked. If the loonier House Republicans weren’t so totally obsessed with hacking domestic social spending right this minute, r…

What the Latest ‘God’s Not Dead’ Gets Egregiously Wrong — and Right — About Homeschooling

By R.L. Stollar

…bill’s hearings learns the plight of the co-op and invites the parents to Washington D.C. to testify against the bill. In D.C., the parents justify homeschooling before a hostile government committee, eventually swaying public opinion against the bill. The movie ends with the judge, who originally ruled against the co-op, dramatically ripping up her order against them. What We The People gets wrong There’s so much We The People gets wrong about h…

Are Tea Partiers Pro-Gay and Pro-Choice?

By Sarah Posner

…g partners of the Eleison Group, the political strategy consulting firm in Washington devoted to helping Democrats speak to “religious” voters, is out with some really questionable advice for the Democrats over at the Huffington Post. Sapp sent the piece to me, an ill-conceived proposal for Democrats to win over conservative voters who might be initially wooed by the tea partiers. “This is more of a divide and conquer strategy,” he wrote to me, “b…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…ation is removing the word “Islam” from all descriptions of terrorism. The Washington Institute of Near East Policy disagrees with the decision and claims that “radical Islamic extremists” can be identified as such “without denigrating Islamic religion in any way.” Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s On Faith blog has a forum of posts on both sides of the question, “What to call terrorists?” Church rating sites are making it easier for the pious to f…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…a well-armed people, and when the call came to come out and to fight the redcoats, people were armed—pastors, and their parishioners. They came out and defended their liberties.” The view that gun ownership is a Christian duty, rooted in the overlap between Reconstructionism and the survivalist/militia movement, has become common in both. In his “Bring Your Pieces to Church” Sunday essay, Reconstructionist Joel McDurmon makes this point, suggestin…

Glenn Beck Has a Plan

By Julie Ingersoll

…the other speakers will be, Beck has “discovered” a medal of merit George Washington awarded and, characteristically lacking in humility, has decided to reestablish the practice of the founding father. When he announced Palin’s participation, he had this to say: In 1780 George Washington developed a badge of merit. It is what our Purple Heart is modeled after…At the time the world only gave medals and badges and everything else to officers, but h…

Mercy and Justice Can Meet at the Border

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

…at nations do have a right to regulate their borders. Former Archbishop of Washington DC, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has admitted as much: “The Catholic Church acknowledges and supports the right of a sovereign nation to secure its borders, most particularly at a time in which national security is in question.” Pope John Paul II who publicly talked about a “human right to immigrate,” sometimes spoke of national identity in the same terms used by…