Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My mother was a Lutheran and the Coles were Catholics, though my grandfather fell away when he married a woman from the Brethren peace church. So it was striking ...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/pastor-prince-rejected.html
Palestinian Christians Israeli Occupation
https://www.juancole.com/2022/12/palestinian-christmas-resistance.html
By Matthijs Kronemeijer | – Toronto (Special to Informed Comment) – The November edition of First Things, a magazine of the Christian Right, features a lengthy statement from a group of theol...
https://www.juancole.com/2022/11/christian-dangerous-flirtation.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN’s Ariane de Vogue, reports that Justice Samuel Alito, a right wing Catholic, gave a speech in Rome for Notre Dame last week, which has finally become public...
https://www.juancole.com/2022/07/disrespect-religion-americans.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Religious Right as a political force is in some ways a creation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion a woman’s right g...
https://www.juancole.com/2022/05/advanced-majority-abortion.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with a far-right Roman Catholic pundit, conspiracy theorist and extremist white nationalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) discussed those chu...
https://www.juancole.com/2022/04/marjorie-controlling-republican.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why is America imposing hardships on the Christians of the Middle East? Xinhua’s reporter visited Syria and found that the Christians in Damascus don’t appear...
https://www.juancole.com/2021/12/christians-palestine-sanctions.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Texas “heartbeat law” banning abortion after six weeks has prompted comparisons of Texas evangelicals to Afghanistan’s Taliban. There is a resemblance g...
https://www.juancole.com/2021/09/compare-abortion-islamic.html
By Aleks Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, and Marcos García García | – Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalu...
https://www.juancole.com/2021/04/catholic-reconquista-outlawed.html