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The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…nce,” the array of voices clustered under the NatCon banner align around a number of goals and priorities. These include a near-total moratorium on immigration (whether documented or not); a robust Christian nationalism to dominate the public square; a rollback of LGBTQ rights; economic nationalism and opposition to “globalist” supranational institutions; hostility to China as a civilizational enemy; a seething vendetta against so-called “woke eli…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…l-haqq, “I am the Truth” or “the Real.” This notion, as explicated by the French scholar Louis Massignon, author of the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, forms the heart of a complex theology of witness—wahdat al-shuhud, the oneness of witnessing—wherein the entire being of the believer becomes a witness to the reality of the divine: God witnessing to Himself in the heart of His votary. This union with God leads to a unification which is not…

Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem with Popularization

By Kathryn Lofton

…dition inextricably bound to such lay groundswells as the Reformation, the French Revolution, and the civil rights movement. The global history of political change is also the history of history’s popularization, a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and finding the confidence to imitate them. Enter The Wordy Shipmates. While few hipsters can stomach the postmodern sentimentality of Vowell’s late-Nineties laun…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…refusers represent a minority of white evangelicals, they have sufficient numbers and visibility to cause serious problems. The New York Times recently quoted an evangelical pastor who claims he’s aware of colleagues who’ve been forced out of their pulpits because of their support for public health measures, and prominent evangelical magazine Christianity Today similarly reports that many evangelical pastors are scared of taking a public stand on…

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

…e in April. So they don’t draw pentagrams and slaughter chickens? Like the French Situationists of the 1960s, TST believes that shock value can be a useful tool for reframing the political conversation. In April, for example, the Detroit chapter countered a Christian protest of an abortion clinic by dressing as sado-masochistic babies and accusing the protestors of “fetal idolatry.” While many find their antics offensive, their group has never per…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ursuit of an unlikely romance. The precocious young man was installed in a French boarding school for a couple of years, returning to live with his father until the artist succumbed, three years later, to a brain tumor; Merton was only 16 years old when he was orphaned. He traveled extensively in Europe, wandered for awhile, then spent two years at Clare College, Cambridge, before transferring to Columbia University, where he graduated in 1938 wit…

Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…elkadir, the Algerian Sufi, conducted jihad as a war of resistance against French colonists, defending his homeland from invasion. The idea of defense of faith and land rests at the core of jihad for years. In the 20th century jihadism coalesces as a distinct ideology through the writing of thinkers like Sayyid Qutb and Abul A’la Maududi. Faced with imperial forces that eroded traditional social structures, both Qutb and Maududi reimagined jihad i…

Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar

By Alireza Doostdar

…ned what I believe to be the beginnings of European-imported spirituality: French Kardecist Spiritism in the early twentieth century, and a number of other currents that emerged around the same time (Theosophy, mesmerism, and others). These movements gradually made their mark on all kinds of religious and intellectual trends, including universalizing (sometimes even scientized) forms of Sufism, but also what we think of as orthodox Shi‘i Islam. Wh…

On the ELCA’s Historic Shift to Include Gay Clergy: Reflections of a Self-Exiled Lutheran

By Eric Reitan

…discovered was similar in some ways to what Simone Weil—the extraordinary French philosopher and mystic—discovered when she tried to join in solidarity with the struggling industrial laborers in early 20th-century France: in her case, the grueling labor was a choice. And that made her experience on the factory floor fundamentally different from that of her coworkers. And now, for four years, I’ve been part of a congregation where weddings are rou…

Anxiety About Homosexuality and Apocalyptic Worldview is An Old Marriage: 10 Questions for the Author of Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England

By H. G. Cocks

…there anything you had to leave out? There was originally a chapter on the French Enlightenment philosopher Pierre Bayle and his debunking of anti-popery. That chapter was also about how Bayle’s work influenced debates on Catholicism in England in the 18th century—I did this by looking at the career of the former Catholic turned Protestant propagandist and general rogue, Archibald Bower. I replaced that with a chapter on the changing idea of lust…