Netanyahu’s Speech, Lane’s Trip, and the Impossibility of Boycotts
Will Democrats boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on March 3? Why didn’t Republican…
Read MoreChristian Nationalism
Gay Marriage isn’t About Christianity So Much as Christian Nationalism
Eerie coincidence or scholar-geist?
Read More
America Does Not Have a Religious Identity
A new book by a Constitutional scholar argues that the founding document does not protect religion—it protects religious freedom.
Read MoreMissouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’
“First of all, I’d like to say thank you. Secondly, I’d like to say I’m sorry. I’d like to thank you because of your support and affirmation. And I’d like to say I’m sorry because of the ways that Christianity is far too often used as a tool of exclusion rather than inclusion. I’d also like to say that there are many other pastors and people of faith who share views such as my own. My speech just happened to go viral on the internet, but I have a ton of colleagues doing similar things all across the U.S. on a regular basis. We may not receive as much publicity as the highly-funded voices on the religious right, but I am hardly a lone voice.”
Read More
‘Let It Be Unto Me’: Akin, Rape, and the Early Church
A pair of historians discuss Republican rep. Todd Akin’s remarks on “legitimate rape”: the female body carries a huge burden of representation: her ability to protect the boundaries of her body, and to maintain her purity, reflects the church’s ability to do the same.
Read MoreThe Theological Roots of Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment
The Senate candidate is proud of how his Masters in Divinity shaped his politics.
Read More
Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?
If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.
Read More
Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate
The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history.
Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance
A political, not theological, co-belligerence.
Read MoreBreivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”
Confessed shooter wrote that “politically correct elites” made Europe soft to Islam.
Read More