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Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…nt spiritual teachings of meditation . . . no different than being Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Muslim.” In 2012, Mendoza sought to co-found a public charter school based on these same yoga and meditation practices—this time arguing that the practices are purely “secular,” “educational” tools. Pennsylvania’s Charter Appear Board denied the application, finding it legally unacceptable to define a practice as “religious” in one context and “…

Three Takeaways from the Contraceptive Mandate Religious Liberty Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…eir religious beliefs to support abortion, which—just like Trump does with his racist dog-whistles—exposed the old scars of anti-Catholicism and turned many conservative Catholics against not only the mandate but the ACA and the Obama administration. It was the Becket Fund’s stroke of genius to further perfect and humanize that narrative by making the self-sacrificing Little Sisters of the Poor the face of gentle Catholic opposition to the big gov…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an in 2011 … our church, that had initially decided to continue in partnership, in this last General Assembly, made the decision to interrupt the official partnership with this beloved church,” the IPIB announced in a statement. “Despite this notable contribution to the expansion of God’s Kingdom in the world and especially in Brazil, our church has understood that the recent decisions made by the PC(USA) are against the principle of the authority…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…singly gays are seeking acceptance in the society. It is not clear whether his job is at risk, but his action has ignited the ire of bishops, who reiterate that the Anglican Church in Kenya does not condone homosexuality. In September, the Mount Kenya West Anglican diocese revoked licenses and suspended five priests over allegations that they were gay. They have since gone to court to challenge the suspension. Dominican Republic: Bishop slams OAS…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lar group—and it’s difficult to imagine the rainbow ever representing such a movement. The mere fact that Morse wants the rainbow back simply underscores the power of the symbol. Every time she sees a rainbow she thinks of the gay and lesbian community. While she may not like the association, at least it keeps the gay and lesbian community in her mind, and perhaps one day, she’ll let them into her heart as well….

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…earch had brought me into conversation with others in the inner circle in which Hill and Roeder were at that time involved. So it was a chilling experience for me to realize that this awful mood of American Christian terrorism—culminating in the catastrophic attack on the Oklahoma City Federal Builiding—has now returned. Christian terrorism has returned to America with a vengeance. And it is not just Roeder. Last week, when members of the Hutaree…

Judeo-Christian America: The Fall of the ‘Christian Nation’

By Edward J. Blum

…rabbi would lead roundtable discussions about religious bigotry and friendship. Then during WWII, the NCCJ hit the nation and its military instillations hard. They spoke directly to nine million Americans and distributed a tri-faith “prayer card” that had a prayer from each faith. They also deployed widely the concept of “Judeo-Christian” values, a new rhetorical creation from the late nineteenth century that linked religious families that had lon…

My Childhood Hobby Was Satanic, Or So They Told Me

By Joseph Laycock

…or gave Americans a much more tangible focus for their fears.) In telling this history I found a lot of information that most gamers never knew about. The full extent of the panic is simultaneously fascinating, frightening, and tragic. For example, The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games (CAR-PGa) provided me with copies of documents on how to interrogate adolescent gamers that were sent to police departments throughout the country…

Ten Books to Read After You’ve Watched “Lemonade”

By Nyasha Junior

…ng and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights Although men within the leadership of civil rights organizations are lionized, Ross examines the lives of seven Black women civil rights activists. She considers how their religious faith served to undergird their activism. By calling attention to survival concerns and identifying ordinary virtues and values, womanist theology helps to give a more complete picture of the meaning of religio…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…there are reasons to pause before we all go groping for motives. For one thing, while motives tend to be singular, underlying causes are always plural. Honest responses have to pay attention to multiple causes, instead of collapsing reality to a single motive in order to serve political agendas. More troubling is that this rapid-fire blame cycle often plays into the hands of those who support terror. The great fantasy of terrorism, after all, is…