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Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…istians about registering and voting.” Stemberger has been involved in the United in Purpose events, too, according to the Florida Independent. He had originally endorsed Rick Perry, but switched to Santorum after the Texas meeting of religious right leaders. United in Purpose held “One Nation Under God” events at 34 Florida churches last year, at which they showed a DVD featuring Gingrich and other religious right figures. According to the group’…

Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough

By Susan Henking

…nd compassion for persons with HIV/AIDS, right? And moves like that of the United Church of Christ are better than their opposite—overt hostility toward persons with HIV/AIDS. But do they distract us from the illogic of religion? The hostility? The longterm negative consequences? Such questions are not relevant only for New York City. Why? New York’s interfaith work on HIV/AIDS is not the only setting in which (relatively progressive) religion ser…

Religious Leaders Pledge to Protect Religious Freedom—For Everyone

By Sarah Posner

…e pledge “with everyone we meet.” The Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe, General Secretary of the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society, said as she signed the pledge outside, “the continued prejudice and discrimination against Muslims in the United States betrays the core values of religious freedom upon which the United States was founded.” “Tolerance is not enough,” she said, but respect for other faiths “is the pillar of democracy.” Thi…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…thicist, the problems with this version of “reconciliation” are legion. It promoted a false equivalency between competing forces. It minimized questions of justice for Black people in the United States. Perhaps most problematically, it confused an overt lack of fighting with “peace” or “healing,” thus paving the way for new forms of violence to emerge in that very moment, born of the same demonic, white supremacist logic. And insofar as contempora…

When Rabbis Seized Control of the Synagogue: The Role of Authority in American Judaism

By Zev Eleff

…th century. The changing nature and culture of the Jewish community in the United States provides new variables to explore. However, the role of religious authority in determining new developments is more than evident in other periods. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? My sense is that historians started to think less and less about the role that authority has played in the formation of religious communities. The concep…

Sheldon Adelson’s Long Game

By Sarah Posner

…out Israel, or at least constraining political dialogue about it. Citizens United enabled Adelson to pour as much of his money as he wants into influencing elections, but that’s really a misnomer. He’s not influencing the outcome of elections, but enforcing how candidates speak. Case in point (a story we know thanks to Vogel’s reporting, by the way): earlier this year Adelson chastized Chris Christie for using the term “occupied territories,” and…

Biblical Inerrancy: Responses to “What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe?”

By C. Joshua Villines

…istian polarization has come from, believe it or not, the President of the United States, who has on several occasions urged both progressive and conservative Christians to acknowledge the important of doubt and humility (or as it used to be called, the Fear of God) in applying the teachings of Christ. But in the current atmosphere, he’s not getting much support for this message. So to answer Gary Laderman’s question once again: no, you cannot say…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…n for trafficking in assumptions that Muslims were not already part of the United States, while Peter Beinart described his assumption that Muslims should be required to prove their loyalty as a “lapse into Trumpism.” The presence of Abdul-Jabbar and Ellison served as a reminder that Muslims in the U.S. are not exclusively immigrants. Abdul-Jabbar and Ellison, both African Americans, converted to Islam when they were young. Furthermore, speaker af…

When Welcoming the Stranger Was Not Just a Religious Value

By Melissa Borja

…e in 1979, religious leaders have set aside their divisions and have stood united in their strong commitment to aid and resettle Syrian refugees. Last week, as Congress debated the fate of Syrian refugee resettlement, organizations representing the entire gamut of American religious communities—Muslims and Jews, evangelicals and Unitarians, Catholics and Hindus—spoke with one clear voice: “To turn our back on refugees would be to betray our nation…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…) of Godey’s Ladies Book, the most widely read magazine of its time in the United States. Described by one modern commentator as a combination of Oprah and Martha Stewart, Hale wrote annual editorials campaigning for a national Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November. She also filled her magazine with heartwarming stories of Thanksgiving homecomings and dinners, and she wrote personal letters to five United States presidents and every si…