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Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

By Paul Rosenberg

…t case, Parker v. Levy, he explained, which in turn guided the creation of Air Force Instruction 1-1, Paragraph 2.12: Leaders at all levels…. must ensure their words and actions cannot reasonably be construed to be officially endorsing or disproving of, or extending preferential treatment for any faith, belief, or absence of belief. [emphasis added] In contrast, the JAG opinion stated: [A] commander may: briefly thank a Supreme Being (either gener…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…reat people” there on Jan 6, a day he characterized as having “love in the air.” Perhaps the greatest consequence Trump has faced is the lifetime bans from social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, which has drastically limited the reach of his poisonous words. And while Trump continues to support his wealthy and connected accomplices, such as Bannon (whom he pardoned on unrelated charges) and Meadows, he hasn’t stood up for his supporte…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…s to continue. Presidential candidates continue to extol the virtues of this nation and the God-directed values that supposedly animate the country. Americans continue to be enamored with and active consumers of sports and military-based products and ideals. While Americans venerate sports heroes and dead soldiers, the stories continuing to unfold at both Penn State and Dover Air Force Base demonstrate that there really is something “rotten” here…

‘A Slice of Heaven’: Lakota Look to Buy Back Stolen Sacred Lands

By Johnny P. Flynn

…to the Lakota since the Before Time. Pe’sla is part of a complex of sacred sites which include Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and various other sites in the Black Hills, all of which link to Lakota mythology of the union of earth and sky, and many are still used for ceremonies and prayer. As noted in the excerpt above, the Black Hills was set aside for the Lakota people as part of what was then called The Great Sioux Reservation. Less than ten years la…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…those victims who did report their victimization to Episcopal leaders, the number one assessment from both trans/non-binary and cisgender respondents was that “little or no change” came about as a result. 20.6% of transgender and non-binary survivors reported that they simply left the church altogether. By comparison, “only” 10.7% of cisgender women felt they had to leave. (Curiously, there’s no data on this front for LGB-identified Episcopalians….

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…ly Graham Crusade had, according to Landeza, been trying to enter the fire site for days. Landeza, who was born and raised in Berkeley and has ministered in the Bay Area for decades (and had been at the fire site for five days straight by the time this writer was able to reach him), said the Billy Graham chaplains were “not even from the area” and had driven in from other parts of California. “They don’t reflect the diversity of Oakland or appreci…

Power Up: Turn Off the Cell Phone

By Daniel Schultz

…plugged-in lifestyle doesn’t really get at the heart of the issue. I think the Amish, of all people, have it right. It’s not so much about what you as an individual are doing or not doing, as the effect technology has on the community: Why not make life easier and just put [a phone] in the house? “What would that lead to?” another Amish man asked me. “We don’t want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a tel…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…rents. The temple was full of memorials brought from home and assembled on site. Thousands of messages were written on every inch of the temple walls, doorways, stairs, and railings. Many of us recorded the letters, altar pieces, collages, and beautifully arranged mementos in photographs, disregarding their impermanence. The temple has also come to reflect a growing national trend: pet memorials. Burners left loving memories of dogs, cats, snakes,…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…their minoritized religions are in danger, too. But cases involving Native American sacred sites are different from other religious freedom cases because they inevitably present us with two competing rights—one party’s religious freedom is in tension with another party’s property rights. For example, a Native nation argues that a specific place is sacred to it, but this place is officially owned by someone else (usually the U.S. government). If th…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…