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Book Review – Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right, by Randall Balmer.0
- January/February 2022
- January 1, 2022
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2021. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right succinctly tells a story that has rarely, if ever, been told. In a small, readable account of some 88 pages, historian Randall Balmer takes on two important tasks. First, he shatters the myth that opposition to abortion was the engine
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This Editorial Is Not About Abortion or Vaccine Mandates 0
- November/December 2021
- November 1, 2021
History is replete with stories of public policy gone awry. One common tale—which is probably apocryphal—is from nineteenth-century India. According to this story, British authorities in Delhi were alarmed at the number of dangerous cobras in the city and offered residents a bounty for every dead snake they could produce. What officials hadn’t counted on,
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The Student and the Senator 0
- November/December 2021
- November 1, 2021
They make an unlikely duo. A teenage “hijabi athlete” who is a devout Muslim with a passion for running. And an Ohio state senator, a self-described “hockey mom,” intent on making sure all student athletes, regardless of their faith tradition, enjoy equal religious freedom rights. Together they’re helping reshape how religious expression in sports is
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Finding Common Cause 0
- November/December 2021
- November 1, 2021
Asma T. Uddin is an internationally renowned American-Muslim scholar, author, constitutional lawyer, and religious freedom advocate. As a lawyer, she has defended the religious freedom rights of Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Native Americans, and Jews. But with her 2019 book, When Islam Is Not a Religion, Ms. Uddin opened a national conversation about Christian perceptions
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Religious Propaganda and the Making of An American Religion 0
- November/December 2021
- November 1, 2021
The United States has been a deeply religious nation since its earliest beginnings,” President Harry S. Truman ardently declared as he opened his 15-minute address. It was the evening of October 30, 1949, and Truman delivered a major speech live on all four major television and radio networks. “The need which the founders of our
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Neither Liberal nor Conservative but American 0
- November/December 2021
- November 1, 2021
After more than two decades at the forefront of U.S. international religious freedom efforts, a former State Department special advisor for religious minorities makes the case for leaving partisan politics at the water’s edge. Religious freedom matters. Consequently, it is a hotly contested issue within the United States. But if the stakes are high domestically,
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