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The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…breached the highest halls of power here as well, with Trump reportedly expressing strong approval of a May 2017 opposition research memo, prepared by the “nationalist wing” of his White House, which warned of a conspiracy of “deep state’ actors, globalists, bankers” and others intent on attacking the president by “execut[ing] political warfare agendas that reflect Cultural Marxist outcomes.” The theory has also been embraced by violent White nat…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…play out. A little practice with Catholicism would go a long way toward improving press coverage of smaller, less well known groups. Second, if the American press cannot handle its responsibilities with regard to Catholicism (which is well known to many of them), how can we expect them to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United State…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…ns about your topic? A common misconception about Quiverfull seems to spring from popular representations of it in the spate of large-family TV shows over the past few years, which focus on the novelty of unusually large families, and not on the theology that underlies their decisions. Through these representations, the movement is depicted as an innocuous lifestyle choice with no impact or relevance to the outside culture. I think it’s import…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…non-Christians may find themselves holding “Christian” ideas about sex and proper and improper uses of the body. Additionally, whether you are Christian or not, in the United States you will be subject to laws that are directly influenced by Christianity’s historical ambivalence about, and even fear of, the body and sex. A dominant line of Christian theology has identified the “lusts of the flesh” with human fallenness—sometimes called “original s…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…an Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, June 2021. [28] Pronatalism refers to domestic programs and policies meant to increase the country’s fertility rate and promote child-bearing and parenthood. For the overview of pronatalist policies in Russia, see Linda J. Cook, Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova, and Vladimir A. Kozlov, “Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary,” Social…

Catholic Voters No Longer Beholden to Bishops and Abortion

By Mary E. Hunt

…ortion. Theologians and other Catholic scholars have led the way on this approach. Pro-choice Catholic scholars have long argued that one can favor legal abortion from a Catholic perspective as part of a broadly conceived agenda for social justice. But it is hard to overestimate the sea change that is happening when those who oppose abortion recognize and articulate the need for such an agenda even if it is promoted by a candidate who is pro-choic…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…n to his wallet and another strike against the church. But he struggled to produce a project on such a large scale. When all seemed lost, Hofmann made the deadly decision to plant bombs in order to divert attention and buy more time. Instead, the deaths brought his half-decade career to a deadly halt, and insurmountable trauma to several families. Murder Among the Mormons spends most of its time on the resulting investigation, including the mistak…

$50 Billion Fundamentalist Free Fall

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s than four year ago, in the January 2005 State of the Union address, that President Bush proposed permitting US citizens to invest their own Social Security funds in the stock market, in order to take advantage of the higher returns available there. Resistance to the idea was two-fold. First, Social Security is itself another Ponzi scheme; no one has “their own money” to invest. “My” money will be paid into the system when I retire by taxpayers w…

Post-Election, “Is The Black Church Dead?” Redux

By Anthea Butler

…e the same strong community and “affinity” links that existed in the past. President Obama’s impassioned “preacher voice” was not enough to draw black voters out in record numbers as they did in 2008, even though a poll in the New York Times showed his favorables to be extremely high in the African-American community, while he is losing traction with other groups who voted for him in 2008. Issues in the community surrounding foreclosures and unemp…

Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…ulton explains that a lot of this increase is due to the debates over immigration reform; but even factoring that in, Hispanic churches are becoming more politically active. The number of congregations might be few, but they may also be larger communities, representing a substantial number of people. In any case, the trend will only continue as Hispanics continue to grow as a part of the US population. Which brings us around at last to the joke in…