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“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…while I did see a few expressions of shock and confusion in the crowd, the most common reaction was: “Throw me something, I’m Jewish, too!” The main reason that I joined was for the opportunity to participate in New Orleans culture and tradition as an insider, a goal that can sometimes take generations to achieve in this close-knit town—a goal shared by most of the members that I spoke with on Saturday, many of whom are young newcomers to the city…

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

By Peter Laarman

…very slightly in the midterm voting and remains very strong at over 70% in most polls. I’m thinking about a much broader collapse, however. I’m thinking about the substratum of white Protestantism that supported our common culture for so long and in so many ways: the Protestant-inspired civil religion assayed by scholars like Robert Bellah and David Hollinger. And I’m talking about an inheritance that reinforces what we might call ordinary virtues…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…d protestors to go home or else they ‘negotiated’ with police to no avail. Most then got into pulpits on Sunday morning and demonized the young folks in the streets. Sanctified folks could be seen passing out salvation tracts while teargas bellowed in the night air and youthful bodies bore the brunt of state violence. As this year comes to a close, you have not fared much better. The terrorist attack on Mother Emmanuel AME, and the anti-Muslim ven…

Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the sacred peninsula of Mount Athos. Mount Athos is considered to be the most sacred geography in the Orthodox Christian world. Its oldest monasteries were built in the 10th century, and there are currently twenty of them (19 Greek and one Russian Orthodox) scattered along the lovely coast of a nearly forty-mile peninsula not far from Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. No women are permitted to set foot on this peninsula (nor are female…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…nto argument. Half an hour later, MacDonald emailed Merritt a “numerated list of questions” about Merritt’s journalistic ethics—have you ever been paid by a publisher for coverage of a book, etc—which Merritt told him was upsetting. Merritt answered no to all the questions and sent MacDonald questions of his own for several days without receiving a reply. Then, on Thursday June 28th, he finally received “a note saying you’ve been terminated, effec…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…past several weeks, while McCain has been dodging evangelical Christians (most notably Pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley, after spending time and energy courting their endorsements), Obama has been actively courting both Christian evangelical and Catholic voters. (Hagee’s negative remarks about the Catholic Church caused the pastor to be rebuked by the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue and Hagee’s apology was later accepted by Donohue.) Earlier thi…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…xpensive. Unlike a printed book, the cost of each app is relatively small (most are free or sell for under two dollars). And unlike the internet, the space of the iPhone feels not just private, but personal. Yes, the iPhone might be my means of connection with the world—it is, after all, a phone—but it is also my own little password-locked garden that I carry with me wherever I go. Moreover, I can remake the landscape with a few flicks of my finge…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…vily-armed men, including infamous “Vanilla ISIS” terrorist Ammon Bundy, a Mormon anti-government extremist who led the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. Having failed to gain the backing of the state GOP apparatus or of any state senators, the small group of extremist legislators ultimately admitted that they did not have a quorum. Nevertheless, they grandstanded and read the proclamation they’d put out claiming tha…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…ogle’s unbounded access to data. Google has so much information, that it almo*]}*st seems to read the granddaughter’s mind. But who can fault them for it? If benevolent big data can heal partition, who are we to protest? All this places a new spin on recent disclosures that Google harvests its users’ information and sells it to advertisers, not to mention the revelation that the National Security Association infiltrated Google’s data stores in its cam…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…imp, and how civil marriage licenses are distinct from religious weddings. Most of the calls lasted mere seconds, with people not home or not interested. After an hour working the phones, Scott Holley, 33, cheerfully noted that he had become “unfazed by rejection” during his two-year Mormon mission in Chile. “There are people out there that are ready to hear your message. You just have to find them,” he said, of both experiences. “There are peopl…