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Keepers of History or Dangerous Idols: The Case Against Statues From an Unlikely Source

By David Zvi Kalman

…sville press conference in 2017. “Are we gonna take down statues of George Washington?” We’re supposed to say no, I think, for no matter where we place the invisible line between “villain” and “important-but-problematic-historical-figure,” there’s widespread agreement that an America with no monuments—without a Rushmore, or a Lincoln Memorial, or an MLK, or 101 Washingtons in marble and bronze—would be an America that had lost itself in the heat o…

Gay Republicans Ask for Social Issue Cease-Fire

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ment conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the tea party movement,” the letter read. “This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check… Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups th…

Religious Left Prepares to Take On Obama Administration

By Daniel Schultz

…left, unhappy with the Obama administration, has organized a conference in Washington this weekend to call on the president to “Be the Obama that Americans thought we elected in 2008.” Led by Rabbi Michael Lerner, the event is officially called “Taking Back Washington From the ‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Realists’: A Strategy Conference for Religious and Secular Progressives,” featuring the likes of evangelical minister Brian McLaren, Rep. Keith Ellison (o…

Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ntley regurgitated a fake quote beloved by Christian Nationalists: “George Washington once said, ‘It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible.’ And I couldn’t agree with our first president more; we need to hear the heart of God on issues we are facing today to govern correctly.” Of course, George Washington was famously reticent about religion, refused to take communion the few times he went to church, spurned religious consola…

By the Way: Religious Right Eats its Own

By Randall Balmer

According to last week’s Washington Times, the central committee of the Republican Party in Iowa denied Senator Charles Grassley, the state’s senior elected Republican, a place on the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Iowa Christian Alliance, the state’s most powerful Religious Right organization, has long exerted an outsized influence over the state’s Republican Party, but now it controls a majo…

Gordon Gekko Gets God: The Heritage Foundation of Theology

By Peter Laarman

…mory—we have never seen the full extent of the devastation wrought by the “Washington consensus” on the lives of others and on the life of the planet itself. We’ve never seen the effects of the global sweatshop up close; we’ve never seen what privatized water markets look like in places like Bolivia; we’ve never asked whether there might be a connection between NAFTA’s effects within Mexico and the urgent need of Mexicans to reach El Norte, even r…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…is trend slowly made its way into the mainstream, including this piece broadcast on April 10, 2024, by the PBS News Hour: The effort to shift evangelical opinion seems to have come from several directions—from Razom, a human rights organization, supported in part by the progressive Open Society Foundation, to the ultra-secretive Family, an influential and controversial evangelical group that backed Ukraine as a potential “Bible belt” bulwark again…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…es governmental affairs and is the chief lobbyist of the 30-million-member Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Evangelicals, this year he was named by TIME magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people, he’s a Republican, and he’s a leader in the Creation Care movement—a Christian evangelical response to global warming. He is Richard Cizik and he’s a longtime friend of Sen. John McCain. These days, Cizik says that he doesn’…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…nyone who can surf the web knows white supremacists have a tendency to broadcast their views far and wide. As a social media community, the wolf packs may lack the tight organization and strategic command centers of organized crime or classic terrorist groups. But online, the wolf pack becomes real in the circulation and exchange of manifestos; the constant back and forth conversation reinforcing a sense of “us”; and the articulation of common lan…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…ousands of anti-abortion Catholics and a few friends gather in Washington, DC for an always-cold schlep to the Supreme Court. This year was no exception. Emboldened by the recent Republican anti-choice gains in the House of Representatives, the crowd was more hopeful than in recent years but otherwise largely unchanged. They were Catholics. Many of the participants are young people whose parishes charter buses to transport them to DC for the occas…