Religion Dispatches
Four years later, the church doesn’t speak to the media about the murder. “They put that in the past,” an administrator told me, handing back my card. But they may be the only ones who can say that in Wichita, which for 20 years has been the epicenter of America’s fight over abortion.
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The Lambs of Christ founder’s lifetime example of “nonviolent” protest is now being invoked by the Catholic Bishops, according to the Thomas More Society. But for abortion providers Weslin’s nonviolence is just violence by another name.
Read MoreNew Louisiana law allows armed “security forces” to carry concealed weapons in houses of worship.
Read MoreNew investigative report documents the people and organizations underlying his religious motivations.
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A veteran analyst of right-wing militancy notices a creeping maturity in the media’s ability to talk about the religious elements of terrorism—even when it’s Christian.
Read MoreDefendant on trial for murder of Dr. George Tiller says his religious beliefs justified his actions. (Updated below with jury’s verdict.)
Read MoreHaving publicly assured Tiller’s executioner that he acted in “righteousness and mercy,” affable Lutheran pastor Michael Bray, “chaplain” of Christian extremists, spoke with the author a few years back on why America is like Nazi Germany, why it’s okay to kill active abortion providers, and what he means when he says he’s “pro-choice.”
Read MoreA letter to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg from a scholar of religious extremism.
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While much of the media had no trouble detailing the religious commitment of the Muslim killer of an army recruiter, most profiles painted Scott Roeder as a right-wing, anti-government, anti-abortionist, with a prior arrest history and mental problems. His connection with extremist Christian groups, apparently, is irrelevant.
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