Is it Morally Right to Deport Millions of People?
President-elect Donald Trump promised during his campaign to deport millions of illegal immigrants, of whom there are an estimated 11 million in the United States. First, we do not yet know how literal this Trump promise is. Big promises about mass deportations were also made in 2016 that were not enacted during his first term. […]
Christian Conservatism and Christian Realism vs. Christian Nationalism
Most of what is written about Christian nationalism is silly. Critics and analysts sweepingly deride conventional Christian conservatives as Christian nationalists. By some counts, there are, by this definition, tens of millions of Christian nationalists. Sometimes even civil religion, with its homage to a vague deity, is labeled Christian nationalism. If so, all presidents from […]
Reviving Germany’s Dark Spirits?
A far-right party’s victory in a German state is reviving memories of the country’s dark past. In the eastern state of Thuringia, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received one-third of the vote. And it picked up 30 percent of the tally in Saxony, also in eastern Germany. It is the strongest showing by a German far-right […]
The Methodist Sexual Revolution
United Methodism’s governing General Conference, meeting currently in Charlotte, N.C., is enacting a sexual revolution within what used to be, until very recently, America’s third-largest religious group. So far, in legislative committees, later to be ratified in plenary, delegates by wide margins are disconnecting sex from marriage or even monogamy. Until now, the United Methodist Church […]