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Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…is evangelical base. There hasn’t been a pivot, but the campaign team has managed to hit the “partly reset” button—at least as long as they can keep their boss’s itchy fingers off Twitter. Whether this will sway the fracturing of a considerable number of Catholic voters from that base, however, remains dubious. His address to the group also shows his evolution into someone less ill-at-ease with Bible verses and more attuned to the language of Amer…

Why Cliven Bundy Wasn’t A Religious Right Hero

By Sarah Posner

…servatives (some rather belatedly) who lionized his supposedly brave stand against the big bad federal government, until his racist statements were published in the New York Times. As Jamelle Bouie chronicles, Bundy’s view that blacks were better off under slavery are “fairly common within the conservative movement,” the only difference being he “isn’t sophisticated enough to couch his nonsense in soundbites and euphemism.” Adam Serwer adds: This…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…f a problem. The Israeli government initially referred to the virus as shapaat hazirim (“swine flu”), but officials of the Ministry of Health, which is controlled by the Ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, objected to that name, as it mentioned the Hebrew word for pig, the archetypical forbidden food. This past May, M.K. (Member of Knesset) Yaakov Litzman, acting director of the Ministry, referred to the virus as “Mexican Flu.” As the Telegraph noted, with…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…white space. Short sentences that force you to stop. And think. And start again. What would Rob Bell do to fill up eight hours in person? The message of the book is simple: look around at your life, decide if it’s what you want, then devote all your energy to living the best life you can. Don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do. Just do it. Even if that thing is being an assistant regional manager of an insurance company—he actual…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…t studying religion. Early on, he made his reputation with works on Kierkegaard and Hegel, and during the 1980s he helped to bring the ideas of Jacques Derrida into American theology and religious studies. Starting in the late 90s, though, Taylor ventured far afield with books on architecture, computer networks, economic markets, and even Las Vegas. In 2006, he released a book of photographs of animal skeletons in the desert. Taylor’s most recent…

Proselytizing the Pros: Christianity in Big-Time Sports

By Tom Krattenmaker

…earned that Tony Dungy has begun working with—and evidently pressing—the NCAA to address this problem. I applaud him for that and hope he can help achieve some progress. I could go on about what’s left out of the book. There’s also the fact that I focus on the “big three” men’s pro sports—the NBA, NFL, and Major League Baseball—and say very little about women’s sports. No disrespect intended. I needed a manageable size and scope for the project, a…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…t Poole on Satan in America: The Devil We Know What inspired you to write Satan in America? What sparked your interest? I’ve joked that I wouldn’t have had to write a book about Satan if my parents had let me go see Ozzy back in 1985. I’m not sure I’m entirely kidding since I grew up in the 1980s when, as I describe in the book, the culture was seized with what scholars call “the satanic panic.” Evangelicals’ insistence that dark powers are at wor…

Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…work of this piece by Jack Jenkins for Religion News Service: Q: Could Novavax win over some religious vaccine skeptics? A: No. This has been another edition of ‘Simple Answers to Simple Questions.’ These days, I’m willing to give Jenkins’ question a “probably not,” with some explanation. Let’s stipulate that the Novavax COVID shot, which is currently pending FDA approval, could potentially be attractive to some religious holdouts. According to t…

Blood for Oil

By Peter Laarman

…e only person linking the mine disaster in West Virginia to the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf. I felt the irony in the fact that the Deepwater Horizon platform collapsed and sank on Earth Day. I felt the inconvenient truth in Dan Wasserman’s Boston Globe cartoon picturing one mournful and sooty miner telling another: “Folks on Nantucket worry that windmills will spoil their view.” We shouldn’t let spinning windmills in the current news cycle s…

As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…al to be effective for hesitant and refusing groups.” And yet, to riff on Maya Angelou’s important insight, when a religious group tells you that their racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracist politics are an integral aspect of their religious identity, it’s prudent to believe them. It’s worth noting the religiously unaffiliated are doing reasonably well at 75% vaccine acceptance, although some religious demographics are doing better. 12% of t…