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Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…m as a result of their experiences at Angola. Some are content to continue participating in prison ministry and do not feel as though it is their role to try to change the system. Two people who visit Angola may come from the same theological background but have very different responses to their experiences within the prison. Cain has to cater to multiple audiences. So religious beliefs do not necessarily predict political views and actions. Anoth…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…ur brother’s couch to having your every move tweeted and to be followed by paparazzi. Your privacy is instantly gone, any warts you have are instantly magnified, and you are suddenly catapulted into the limelight. Worse, you are now made into a figurehead, for religious people, and in Lin’s case, for Asian-Americans too. If Lin stumbles—if he gets into a fight in a bar, or behaves inappropriately with women, or commits any number of minor sins whi…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…sode “Haunted” tells the real-life ghost story of Dennis Conrow, who hired paranormal investigators when his dead parents seemed to be haunting their former home. This episode deftly recounts Conrow’s struggle with skepticism and belief. Second is 99% Invisible a popular podcast about design and architecture that produced two eerie episodes this year. “O-U-I-J-A” offers a fascinating and textured history of the iconic game, weaving together design…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…s Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World and what it represented to many participants in the 1960s British-American counterculture whose countless spiritualities subverted the social status quo through bodily and community actions. As rain poured down on Trump’s inauguration, I looked at my like-minded friends, family and colleagues and quoted John 11:35: “Jesus wept.” Will the spiritual people, moved by compassion and troubled by the imminent t…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…k, who had served as president of the Mormon faith’s women’s organization, participated in a pro-Trump rally in October. This endorsement appeared to give permission for many Mormons to support the Republican nominee, and Trump’s lead increased throughout the state. On election day, Donald Trump won Utah easily, as his vote total nearly doubled those received by McMullin and Hillary Clinton. The extent of Mormon support for Trump is debatable. Pew…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…st likely to indicate outright refusal to take a Covid-19 vaccine, while a number of other studies have also found that number hovering close to 25 percent. Journalists and academics alike have attempted to make sense of this discrepancy, pointing to existential fear, anti-intellectualism, and Christian nationalism as potential influences on American evangelicals’ vaccine antipathy. As a scholar of American evangelicalism and media, I am inclined…

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…d for a “feminist sacramental system.” All of this, she says, “would be preparing for respect for women’s moral agency and primacy of conscience.” Catholic parishes encourage people, said Quinn, to protest outside abortion clinics. Catholic parishioners protesting at the clinic where she was an escort reported her to the local Cardinal. As a result, she was rebuked by her order in 2009, and decided not to continue her work as an escort. Her activi…

The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Sarah Sentilles

…g the second, which is even more brutal, the discomfort in the theater was palpable. I was uncomfortable, not only because I was terrified by watching someone raped, but because it was unclear what I was supposed to make of the violence. It was unclear what kind of gaze the camera was asking me to assume. Yes, Dragon Tattoo makes it clear that rape is wrong. The film also makes it clear that Lisbeth resists, fiercely, as much as she can given that…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…ht and Government Reform Committee, heard Fluke’s testimony as part of a separate panel convened by Democrats after the Committee’s chair, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), blocked her from testifying. In an attempt to turn the tables on the Democrats’ complaint that Issa’s opening panel was made up entirely of men, Hagen insisted that women like her are being silenced by Cummings. At the rally, there were men and women of all ages—some older, some with s…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…going to curl up in a ball. Tomorrow morning, more than 40 couples taking part in the WE DO campaign are reportedly planning to apply for marriage licenses in eight counties, accompanied by supportive clergy, elected officials, family, and friends. In each community, the WE DO event will also include a Prayer Service for Reconciliation led by clergy. In select counties, couples and allies will conduct a sit-in at the Register of Deeds Office afte…