September/October 2023

Yesterday and Today 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
Ruminations of a second-generation Holocaust survivor For many years I served as a policy and advocacy official with the American Jewish Committee, and today I remain active in pursuing the issues and promoting the values to which I dedicated my career. I am a Religious Freedom Fellow at the Freedom Forum, a leader on civil
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At the Altar of Patriotism 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
The outsized influence of ‘civil religion’ and what it means for Americans today. In 1863, prominent Unitarian pastor Henry W. Bellows preached a rousing war sermon to his New York congregation. He called the sermon “Unconditional Loyalty,” and he meant every word of it. He warned his congregation against the treasonous implications of criticizing the
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Christian Nationalism and the Art of Flossing 0
- September/October 2023
- September 1, 2023
An interview with sociologist and author Andrew Whitehead. For a book written by a social scientist, Andrew Whitehead’s American Idolatry has surprisingly few statistics in the opening pages (American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and the Church [Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2023]). Instead, Whitehead, a nationally known writer and speaker on religion in
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The story of a mail carrier, his Sabbath, and a five-decade legal odyssey to strengthen the rights of all people of faith in America’s workplaces. When Gerald Groff returned from the mission field and took a part-time job as a mail carrier near his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2012, he had no reason

Baptizing Politics 0

Christian nationalism in global perspective.Illustrations by Alex Nabaum In 1992 Benjamin Barber suggested that the post–cold war world would be shaped by a contest between “Jihad” and “McWorld.”1 Jihad was the name he picked not just for Islamist movements but for all political movements founded on cultural, religious, or national particularity. “McWorld” was his name

Doing Unto Others and the Limits of Democracy 0

In 2015, a few months before he died, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia spoke to law students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the question-and-answer period a student asked Scalia whether courts have a responsibility to protect minorities that can’t win rights through the political process. Scalia’s response was typically blunt. No, he said.

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