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The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…the real journey is one of self-discovery. The religious landscape of the United States has profoundly changed since the genesis of the Grateful Dead 50 years ago, especially in terms of the dramatic rise of the number of Americans who are no longer affiliated with traditional religious institutions or denominations. In the absence of traditional religious affiliation, people are increasingly turning to popular culture to explore and interrogate…

The Quiet Passing of Fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Lynn A. Thompson Suggests Polygamy Recognition Remains a Distant Hope

By Cristina Rosetti

…o continued the controversial marital practice. According to the Apostolic United Brethren, they were charged with continuing the “fundamentals” of the faith—namely polygamy—after the LDS Church essentially brought an end to the practice in 1904. Over the past two years, the legal and criminal status of polygamy in the US has once again been at the center of public attention. At the start of the 2020 Utah legislative session, Senator Deidre Hender…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…ean colonists, and was subsequently incorporated as a founding myth of the United States. This particular version of American chosenness has been used to justify a whole host of government policies, including the enslavement of black men, women, and children, as well as the genocidal slaughter of American Indians. But the presence of black chosenness in antebellum black newspapers teaches us that the very people that the United States worked so ha…

Kafkaesque Reality Show Known as the RNC Kicks Off

By Paul Harvey

…gether can defeat the liberal Democratic Party, to keep us divided and not united. Because we are the United States of America, and we are the conservative party under God. Trump’s connection to the “prosperity gospel,” and warm words about him by figures such as Joel Osteen, have been widely noted by a number of commentators. Burns himself, the owner of the NOW television network in South Carolina and pastor of the Harvest Praise and Worship Cent…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…rs. “What I found out was that NGOs, the UN, and UNICEF were coming in and promoting an agenda that the church of Uganda did not want to be in this nation.” Engle was careful never to explicitly call for the passage of the bill itself, and to avoid being accused of inciting violence. “We are not standing with violence or hatred to people with homosexual lifestyles,” he preached. Still, as he does in the United States, he insisted that homosexualit…

Nxivm Scam Is Dead, but ‘Brainwashing’ Pseudoscience Lives On

By James T. Richardson

…hology, and religious studies scholars who disagreed with their efforts to promote brainwashing theories in courts. They sued a group of scholars (including this writer) in federal court in New York for allegedly violating federal racketeering statutes (RICO) as we used the mail and phones to discuss how to counter their efforts to promote pseudo-scientific theories in court. That suit was eventually dismissed but not before causing considerable t…

The Kids Are All Wrong: Texas Tosses The Enlightenment

By Burke Gerstenschlager

…d States as a whole, whether the majority of the citizens of Texas (or the United States) believe this narrative or not. On the day of the final vote, board member Cynthia Dunbar, opening the meeting in prayer, said as much when she prayed: “I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion. I like also to believe that as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country.” Dunbar was quite clear: only our citizens…

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…a, insists he is biblically-bound to resist complying with an order of the United States Supreme Court. Again, Ingersoll explains, that’s a Calvinist idea that was rejuvenated with Christian Reconstructionism in the 1960s, and it became incorporated in homeschooling and used by followers “in ways they might not even recognize.” This ideology is embedded in Johnson’s letter, which scoffs at the prospect of court clerks resigning in protest, as one…

Election Survey: White Evangelicals Remain Cultural Outliers on Race, Trump, Immigration

By Candace E. West

…te evangelical Protestants are the only major religious demographic in the United States for which a majority (61 percent) say that this change will be “mostly negative.” Relatedly, white evangelical Protestants are the only major religious group in the country in which a majority (57 percent) say that immigrants pose a threat to “traditional American customs and values.” White mainline Protestants and white Catholics fare only a tiny bit better,…

Trump Pardons the Hammonds, Arsonists Who Inspired Bundy Standoff

By Megan Goodwin

…ndanger the lives of other Americans. This week, the 45th president of the United States pardoned Steven and Dwight Hammond. A statement issued on July 10th granted the Hammonds full clemency. There is no mention of Hammonds’ crimes—crimes that, were they committed by men of another race or religion, he would surely denounce as terrorism. Rather, the president calls the Hammonds’ sentences, which were handed down according to federal guidelines, “…