Daniel Schultz

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Conservative Evangelicals Aren’t Hypocrites, They’re Sadists

Aug 20, 11:34am Daniel Schultz

God tells you not just the way you should be, but the way you actually are, and if you accept that, you will be blessed. If you step outside of it, you're just asking for trouble. So arguing against this structure asks conservative white evangelicals to rewire their entire sense of reality.

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Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

Mar 25, 12:56pm Daniel Schultz

If you don't understand that the Religious Right's conservatism does not stem from honest differences in faith, if you don't get that it's about particular structures of power, you badly misunderstand the situation, and you are not ready for prime time.

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Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith

Mar 20, 1:17pm Daniel Schultz

Speaking about her faith in a recent CNN town hall meeting the senator managed to avoid the mistakes of so many of her predecessors.

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2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

Dec 20, 1:14pm Daniel Schultz

From sexual abuse to white nationalism, a fake rabbi, atheists behaving badly, and politicized pastries, 2018 had little going for it on the religion front.

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In Face of GOP’s Shockingly Anti-Democratic Actions, ‘Love’ Is a Moral Failure

Dec 7, 1:18pm Daniel Schultz

The corrupt legislative shenanigans by lame-duck Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina have prompted many to reiterate calls for "civility" and "love." But are those objectively good things?

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Compare the Midterms to Presidential Elections and an Interesting Story Emerges

Nov 8, 1:05pm Daniel Schultz

This year's electorate resembles a presidential cycle as much as a midterm. So it might be helpful to compare 2018 both to previous midterms and to 2016.

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Shockingly Tone-Deaf GOP Has Evangelical ‘Rabbi’ Pray for Pittsburgh Victims (Updated)

Oct 30, 12:37pm Daniel Schultz

Inviting a messianic Jew to say a prayer for the victims of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence in American history is like sprinkling bacon bits on an eff-you sandwich.

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Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

Aug 27, 12:11pm Daniel Schultz

There are reasons to be dubious about the allegations put forward by culture warrior Carlo Maria Viganò, a Benedict XVI ally.

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Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

Aug 15, 12:13pm Daniel Schultz

The 'Dems ignore faith' narrative ignores the rise of the Nones. It's as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the 'In God We Trust' issue.

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Pence Defends US Immigration Policy in Guatemala … Using Scripture

Jul 2, 10:35am Daniel Schultz

After all the uproar over Jeff Sessions' use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the U.S. border, you might be tempted to bet against administration members citing scripture.

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Why the Methodist Effort to Discipline Sessions Is a Risky Business

Jun 19, 4:21pm Daniel Schultz

Self-definition and even strident public opposition are one thing. Parsing who's a "real" Christian and who's not is something else.

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Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

Jun 15, 1:40pm Daniel Schultz

In short, Jeff Sessions is a gutless coward, without the courage of his professed religious beliefs; without even a rudimentary moral compass beyond White America Good. Brown America Bad.

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Pence Campaigns to Southern Baptists, But He May Want to Cool His Trump Jets

Jun 13, 6:06pm Daniel Schultz

The vote to invite Pence was only 60-40, and several audience members challenged his presence. Evangelicals may be overwhelmingly Trump's base, but not all of them.

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SCOTUS’s Incoherent ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ Decision

Jun 4, 2:52pm Daniel Schultz

If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, you could do worse than “stupid.” In case you’ve been hiding under a rock recently, Masterpiece involves a Colorado baker who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple due to his religious beliefs. […]

A Pastor Speaks: More Than The Children We Wanted

Jun 17, 11:00am Daniel Schultz

All children should be hoped for and longed for. They should all find welcome in a family that was not complete before their arrival. They should all be the children not of our wants but of our dreams, and our deepest fulfillment.