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2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…why the last of those is a religion story, you need to go find her album Amazing Grace and put it on your playlist. Now, please. As a matter of fact, this whole religion thing? Dead, according to 2018. Young people around the world are disaffiliating from religious faith. Surprisingly or perhaps not, American youngs are leaving evangelical Christianity more quickly than other Christian brands, perhaps because of its full-throated embrace of conser…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…five and half years, how trapped in solitary confinement he was allowed a minute or two outside on Christmas day, and how one guard looked him straight in the eye on that day (that holy day) and “drew with his sandal a cross in the ground.” In recent press events, this moment in Hanoi has become his road to Damascus, the tale told to shunt rumors of irreligion. Conversion narratives have become mandatory formulations in American politics, signali…

Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism

By Chrissy Stroop

…, does that dude have some obnoxious stans. But wait, let me back up for a minute. Fandom has become such a constitutive aspect of many people’s identities in this internet age that pop-culture commentators have adopted the language of religious studies to describe it, noting, for example, that strong “in-group preference and out-group bias” fuels the “cultish fanaticism” and persecution complex that characterize what are often referred to as “tox…

The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats

By Patricia Miller

…s would be sufficient to reduce abortion: In concentrating on reducing the number of abortions, rather than the need for abortion, CACG is simply repackaging the antiabortion stance of the most conservative elements of society and denigrating those who argue for full sexual and reproductive rights. At the time, the organization stated: “Catholics in Alliance is pro-life. We support full legal protection for unborn children as a requirement of just…

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…ue engagement in “sharing love.” Mormon festival-goers are led in chanting Sanskrit mantras and instructed in the metaphysical ramifications of such chanting. They are lectured on vegetarianism, on the true nature of knowledge and reality and the self, and invited to participate in the burning in effigy of a demonic “witch.” They will throw “colors” made from biodegradable powder that billows out as great plumes, and they will smear and smack and…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…Christian journalism. What was your motivation for launching Faithfully Magazine? What kind of coverage can your readers expect? The impetus behind launching Faithfully Magazine was basically just to provide another option, another outlet, another platform for Christians of color whose stories weren’t getting as much attention as they should. I just wanted to add more diversity of viewpoints. With so much of media going digital, what was the motiv…

Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…to protest the AHCA, but that does not a movement make, sorry. Nor can the number of churches offering to provide sanctuary to asylum-seekers and undocumented workers, since communities of all stripes—conservative and liberal—heed the call to provide shelter from ICE goons. Nor does the cited diversity of the coalition prove much; a small slice of many different faith segments is, after all, still a small slice. And if all that weren’t enough, I’d…

Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?

By Arielle Levites

…d to say, getting angry and running for local office. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Spiritual Americans aren’t blind or uncaring about the problems in the world. But they believe that an important way, and perhaps even the most effective way, to contribute to a better world is through their own spiritual development. Spiritual Americans believe their personal, seemingly highly constrained actio…

Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”

By Spencer Dew

…ory that maybe McLemore had mercury poisoning, meaning maybe he was just crazy. That religion gets shunted off to the same spot, given the same lazy deus ex machina treatment, reveals more about the discomfort the show’s producers have with this material than it does about “church” as an explanatory key for McLemore’s life—or his death by suicide. This “church,” admittedly, is difficult to conceptualize. The very nature—the very point—of such an e…

North Carolina Just Tried to Ban Marriage Equality Because “Almighty God” Said So

By Sunnivie Brydum

…intended to allow LGBT people to “live and let live.” Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. And as long as the HB2 “repeal” known as HB142 is in force, localities are barred from enacting nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people—so even the progressive cities that want to uphold marriage equality (or equal access for trans folks, or employment protections) would be unable to do so. If North Caroli…