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Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…munities when joblessness became the norm. Barbara Ehrenreich trekked from Florida to Maine to the Midwest and worked as a waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, and, most famously, at Wal-Mart for her Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001). Life was so hard in this world, she concluded that it was little wonder that so many turned to otherworldly Pentecostalism. Smiley and West seem to want to draw from all these genres (fiction,…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…lims, for whom the spectacle of violence against Islam—burned Qur’ans at a Florida church are inseparable in the minds of some from insults against Islam wrapped into techniques of torture and humiliation at Abu Ghraib—is cause for violent action. This is reprehensible, and clearly and openly un-Islamic. The Prophet Muhammad is famous in the Islamic tradition for being “a mercy to all the worlds,” so kind and gentle that he once rent his own garme…

Allen West’s Communist Conspiracy Rooted in Christian Anti-Communism?

By Sarah Posner

Rep. Allen West, the Florida Republican who has previously made anti-Islam statements about Muslim members of Congress, is now answering for his assertion that there are about 80 members of Congress who are communists. His remarks were first published in the Palm Beach Post. In a video released to the Daily Caller (via TPM), West is shown responding to a constituent question by saying there are roughly 78-81 members of the “Democrat Party” who ar…

If Trayvon Martin Were My Son, His Killer Would be in Jail Now

By Joanna Brooks

…hot a young, unarmed African-American man named Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, is known to police, and remains free. “My son is your son,” Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton told demonstrators in New York City on Wednesday evening. While I’m fully aware of the vulnerability of my own children, I also think about the ways my friends who are African American must raise their children, especially sons, with an ever-heightened…

Romney Faring Better With Evangelicals… Or Just Worse With All Others?

By Joanna Brooks

…-again Christians selected Romney, compared to 38% of non-evangelicals. In Florida, the favorability gap was 18%. In Ohio, it was 14%. In Alabama, it was 7%. And in Mississippi, where Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum battled to a nearly three-way split, the favorability gap was down to 4%. So what’s happening? Perhaps reticence about or antipathy towards Mormonism is more broadly distributed among Southern Republicans, including mainline Christians,…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…pposite of elitist snobbery. Even Newt Gingrich, who isn’t the president’s number-one booster, told the Today show that the Obama comment: [S]trikes me as perfectly reasonable. Everybody in America is going have to get re-educated all the time because jobs are going to change, technology is going to change, and if we’re going to compete in the world market, we both have to have the best equipment and the best training. But Santorum doesn’t care ab…

Santorum Invoked Satan

By Joseph Laycock

…e speech was given to Catholic students at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, which was founded by Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s pizza. Like Santorum, Monaghan is a conservative Catholic strongly opposed to abortion, contraception, and pornography). Appealing to the rhetoric of American exceptionalism, Santorum explained that America, above all countries, has been targeted by Satan for corruption. He explained that Satan had already…

Escorted Off House Floor for Reading Scripture in a Hoodie

By Sarah Posner

…as killed last month by George Zimmerman, a volunteer member of a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch. Zimmerman, who has not been charged, claims he was defending himself. Martin was unarmed and wearing a hoodie at the time of his death. “Too often, this violent act that resulted in the murder of Trayvon Martin is repeated in the streets of our nation,” Rush said in his statement. “I applaud the young people all across the land who are making a…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…“We brought them with no expectations and we were highly pleased with the number who decided Ted is the right man to be of the president of the U.S.” When judging these statements (particularly the words “very diverse,” “significant standing” and “the number”), keep in mind that Barton is known (among evangelicals) for playing fast and loose with facts. Three years ago, the evangelical publisher Thomas Nelson halted publication of one of Barton’s…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…sticism. Religion News Service regrets the inaccuracy.” Well, okay. Take a number if you’d like to complain about my own writerly inaccuracies. Still, the trouble with the piece goes beyond an inaccurate (though indisputably grabby) headline. Reporter Kimberly Winston is careful to point out that the Pew report authors have noted “that [the religiously unaffiliated] are by no means homogeneous.” She goes on to highlight Pew researchers’ noting of…