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Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…us anger is the seething antisemitism he believes is rampant in the Muslim world. In a piece for the Atlantic, Bruce Hoffman sifts through various Hamas charters to demonstrate that the organization’s violence is driven by what some scholars refer to as ‘consensus antisemitism’—or hatred of Jews because they’re Jews. In the same magazine, Gal Beckerman compares the Hamas attack to his grandparents’ experience in the Majdanek concentration camp. Bu…

Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram

By Aimee Chor

…urprising; the nexus of whiteness and masculinity features prominently in Trump’s base. The women among Trump’s supporters appear attired in patriotic gear much like the men’s. Their star-spangled baseball caps might be covered in bling, but these women generally don’t perform overtly traditional femininity. However, the God-and-guns Christian right, with its aggressions and resentments, depends not only on symbols of traditional masculinity, but…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ls on this issue.” But, Brody laments, “we find out later that the guy who orchestrated the whole thing, campaign manager Ken Mehlman was a homosexual who really didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for political business.” To seal the deal, Brody has some breaking news: Trump is for a 20-week abortion ban. He’s for defunding Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used to be pro-choice, but he changed his mind on that in 2011—when he was…

With Creation of Little Noticed Department, Pope Francis is Securing Liberal Reforms

By Cormac Shine

…l status as the defender of progressive causes now under attack around the world. Similarly, in a piece for the American Prospect, Alexander Görlach touted Francis as “A Sacred Populist,” lauding him for breaking with conservatives and preaching a simple message of acceptance in times of great political upheaval and conflict. Liberals have had all the more reason to rally behind the pope since the beginning of Trump’s presidency, as White House ch…

Make no Mistake, if There’s a War Between Russia and Ukraine, it Will be a Religious War

By Katherine Kelaidis

…o be clear—given a significant amount of attention. At the same time, many rushed to assure the world that those young men who flew planes into buildings and stoned unveiled women in the street, did not represent “the real Islam.” Far fewer made the much more accurate observation that both Osama bin Laden and Abdolkarim Soroush represented real and legitimate positions within Islam, because traditions are complicated and people with vastly differi…

Jesus, Gentrification, and the Hypocrisy of “Diversity”: An Interview with D.L. Mayfield

By Kaya Oakes

…. Nowadays, I think a lot of that came from an uneasiness with the power structures of the world, and wanting to deal with my own privilege. As an evangelical, there was not a lot of talk about how to get involved in issues of justice work, and so I think I latched onto missionary work as the next best thing. I enrolled in Bible college to get a degree in missions and it turned out I was terrible at apologetics and reciting doctrine. Now, what I r…

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

…stice, no matter who is doing it, is not justice. It will not bring in the world of respect for all lives I believe most of us believe in and yearn for and are trying to figure out how to bring into being. But our lack of love for ourselves and each other, our ease with killing one another, our justification for taking lives has pointed us in a wrong-heading notion of what living and maintaining a civil society is all about. Due process at the end…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…ining to sign his pledge). But then the open letter goes on, “he failed to live his live in accordance with the values we hold so dear.” I’m sorry, that’s just not the language an evangelical marriage crusader would use. They would use terms like “sanctity” and “traditional marriage” and “God’s design” and all that. Not that mushy “values we hold so dear.” It’s not just values we hold so dear — it’s God’s command, God’s plan, God’s design for men,…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…ces to consider. This isn’t exactly quantum mechanics; it’s the “speaking truth to power” principle that every J-school claims to teach its students. But political journalists forget it all the time when they allow their sources to run through rehearsed talking points without challenge. And for whatever reason, as Chrissy Stroop has pointed out on numerous occasions, religion journalists are particularly deferential to the subjects of their storie…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…e past—with what it feels like to suppress and ignore what you know to be true of yourself, to police your actions and words and thoughts, to pray with anguish. When I talk with students about my own struggles, I say that I spent years praying for God to change me. He finally did: he made me honest about who I am. But I struggle on with the damage, my lingering sense of shame, my lost relationships, my deformed sexual self, my thorny faith. The Ha…