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Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…eryone spineless wimps who stand for nothing except vague and gooey middle-class niceness. —Clueless 19th-century rationalist holdovers who still believe it’s possible to look at things objectively because, I don’t know, our schooling was so full of Moustache Grooming 101, practicums in The Care of Tweed Frock Coats, and private lessons in Somber Intonation that we simply never got around to critiques of modernity, or something. Pretty impressive,…

Bobby Jindal Hypes His Christian Cred at Liberty U.

By Murali Balaji

…ten embarrassed to identify as a Hindu. I just wanted to be accepted as an American, because in this country, the dominant narrative has been—and continues to be—that being American implicitly (or explicitly) means being Christian. It’s likely why Barack Hussein Obama has had to repeatedly reaffirm his Christian bona fides. For Hindu kids, the dilemma of having to explain a “funny religion” can be traumatic, and the bullying that takes place—often…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…g terror plans particularly frightening: This was no plot designed by your classical neo-Nazis: young, male, out of work, on the fringes of society. This was a terror plot planned by those the German media refers to as “the bourgeois center”—the middle of society—not its fringes. A judge and former MP, policemen and members of the military. Pia Lamberty is a trained psychologist and the CEO of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy, a Ge…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…aching the course in 1983, I’ve always had a gay person come in and give a class on same-sex relationships. There are no more or less gays today than there were then, but they were much more closeted then,” Parrella recalled. “Now students raise their hands and come out during that class session.” Of course, Santa Clara may be an exception to what is typically a stricter rule. The Bishop of San Jose, Patrick McGrath, puts effort into maintaining a…

When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

By Michael Schulson

…, one consistent theme of the left-wing election post-mortem has been that Americans—and especially white Americans, of all political stripes—need better methods with which to listen to their fellow citizens. Can the interfaith movement play a role there? Certainly, Patel’s primer is a savvy guide to pluralistic listening. But the book also illustrates some of the shortcomings that the interfaith movement brings to any larger pursuit for a more pl…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…ty by talking about the Christian roots of American freedom and connecting American destiny to the old belief, dating back to the 17th-century Puritans who settled New England, that America was God’s great “city upon a hill.” Reagan opposed abortion, promised to fight moral decay in American culture, and assured Falwell and the rising Religious Right that he would keep the federal government from intruding on the lives and schools of ordinary evan…

Stephen King Appeals to Gun Advocates’ Individual Responsibility

By Elizabeth Drescher

…boy who takes a gun to his algebra class, kills his teacher, and holds his class hostage, was named as among sources of inspiration in four high school gun violence cases between 1988 and 1997. After the last case, King pulled the novel from publication. Although he insists that he never apologized for writing it, “and never would,” King does acknowledge that the four psychologically troubled youths who cited Rage, “found something in my book that…

The Morning After in Colorado

By Paul Harvey

…ss voters whose legitimate grievances Evan discusses here, but more middle-class folk clearly fine to accept the mess of Trump porridge. They were not, to the same degree, in 2012, for an explicitly and articulately religious candidate (Mitt Romney). They were, this time, for the candidate who played on the lower frequencies of the white American public. But I live in one state, Colorado, where Hillary Clinton actually outperformed polling expecta…

Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…g a surprise reunion of Trump guest Amy Williams and her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Townshend Williams, and awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to right-wing radio charlatan Rush Limbaugh, whose advanced lung cancer diagnosis does nothing to erase his substantial contributions to the destruction of America’s information ecosystem. Trump’s appreciation for post-truth bluster and militarism are certainly among the characteristics that endear him…

Fulfilling the Dream? Complicating the Narrative

By Jonathan L. Walton

…predatory mortgage industry all disproportionately impacts black and brown Americans. And since African Americans occupy managerial positions in each of the aforementioned areas, I am not sure the language of the civil rights movement is necessarily applicable in combating such multilayered and technocratic forms of racial discrimination. As philosopher Eddie Glaude suggests in his latest book In A Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and Politics of Black A…