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Ted Cruz’s McCarthyism and the Christian Right

By Sarah Posner

…ominee Chuck Hagel. (The best part of Mayer’s piece is the bewilderment of Charles Fried, a Republican who served in the Reagan administration and later taught Cruz at Harvard, who diplomatically told Mayer that Cruz’s statement “lacks nuance.”) Mayer adds: [Cruz] then went on to assert that Obama, who attended Harvard Law School four years ahead of him, “would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School.” The reason, said Cruz, was that,…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…ce process. While #IfNotNow’s actions and protests thus far have been tiny—numbering in the hundreds—they are reflective of a burgeoning discontent with institutional Jewish reaction to the current Gaza conflict. That institutional reaction, these dissenters charge, not only unquestioningly supports the official Israeli narrative that Hamas left Israel no choice but to attack—and no choice but to target locations packed with civilians—but fails to…

Let My Preachers Endorse: A Modest Church-State Proposal

By Michael Leo Owens

…ce the democratic inequity. In the 1990s Congressmen Phil Crane (R-IL) and Charles Rangel (D-NY), for instance, introduced the Religious Political Freedom Act. They sought to permit congregations to spend a set portion of their revenue from tax-deductible contributions on political campaigns and other partisan activities. For the last decade, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has introduced bills repealing the electioneering ban. If Jones’s bills ever pass…

Evangelical PR Guru Signs Up for Romney Campaign Again

By Sarah Posner

…un by Jay Sekulow, who also supported Romney in 2008), his wife Nancy, and Charles Mitchell. At the 2007 Values Voters Summit, Mitchell told me EFM represented evangelicals who were tired of the Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore type of grandstanding, adding Moore’s stunts “made us look like fools.” Don’t be fooled, though: Romney’s 2008 evangelical supporters may not be Roy Moore, but they have their own goals for remaking the judiciary and American j…

David Barton: Creationist Founding Fathers Settled Debate Over Evolution

By Lauri Lebo

…ettled the whole debate over teaching evolution – at least 70 years before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species. Heck, they settled it even 20 years before Darwin was born. “As far as the Founding Fathers were concerned, they’d already had the entire debate over creation and evolution, and you get Thomas Paine, who is the least religious Founding Father, saying you’ve got to teach Creation science in the classroom. Scientific method deman…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…f Eugene Maurice Orowitz when he pulled the name “Michael Landon” from the phonebook more than twenty years before: that in America, continuity might mean something different than it had in earlier Jewish generations; that in America, continuity could not exist without change. Leaving for another time the question of whether or not Little House on the Prairie was pure shmaltz, it’s worth remembering on the anniversary of Michael Landon’s death tha…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…encounter” teachers John Wimber (founder of the Vineyard denomination) and Charles Kraft, began there to hone his ideas about spiritual mapping, spiritual warfare, and power encounters. Leaving the seminary in the early 1990s to establish a ministry in Colorado Springs, Wagner began to build his empire, founding the NAR in 2001. The 21st century, for Wagner, is the beginning of the “Second Apostolic Age.” Those in the NAR believe that in order to…

Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source

By Peter Laarman

…ous omission, in my view, is any reference to certain odious figures—e.g., Charles Maurras and Jean-Marie Le Pen—who (one might say) went all the way with their corporatism. Forever associated with the Dreyfus affair, M. Maurras campaigned for an “integral nationalism” that merged anti-Semitic and anti-Protestant themes. An agnostic himself, Maurras promoted romantic ideas about a Catholic France purged of Enlightenment toxins—and purged of Jews a…

Quiz: How Would Jesus Respond to the Evolution Question?

By Paul Wallace

…by the powers that be. There would be a camera. Someone would stick a microphone in his face and ask, “Hey Jesus, Creation or evolution?” Question: Which of the following describes how Jesus would respond? (1) “Creation. Moses said it. I believe it. That settles it.” (2) “Evolution. Haven’t you morons taken biology?” (3) “Bring me those 70 million-year-old feathers encased in amber that were discovered a couple of weeks ago.” [Holding them up] “T…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…his). Better is his subtle tracing of the biblical lines of influence on a number of important American writers, especially Melville, whose Moby Dick also counts as the single most important work of American fiction by no less a religious and cultural critic than Cornel West. Bragg’s book is an extraordinary compendium of information, less about the creation of the KJV than about its long cultural aftermath. It thus supplements the story of the cr…