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Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…on Religious Liberty, and now has an affiliation with the Brookings Institution, is one of the country’s best authorities on church-state separation law, and an advocate for enforcement of the Establishment Clause. Not only would Rogers herself be surprised to be on the list, I’d imagine, but so would the Christian right itself: one of its core aims is the reversal of Supreme Court jurisprudence on the separation of church and state. President Ob…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…ollowed suit, with little use for rabble-rousers or supposed diluters of truth. Putting Catholic clergymen on the cover became a common trope for Time. After Pius XI, its next Catholic cover had the dual distinction of being the first to depict an American churchman (George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago) and the first to include color in the form of an eye-catching orange bar down the left side of the page. With such covers, which incl…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…me of Islam, it is actually President Bush who made it OK for us to speak out, but giving voice to our concerns. As religious progressive voices are getting louder, the caricature of religion has to fade away and we can begin having more intelligent conversations at a popular level about the role of religion in public life. We still have a way to go in terms of putting theory into practice. A recent collections of essays about the religious left f…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…s shift in thinking are myriad and have only intensified since 2008 when a number of studies indicated that for the first time in US history, less than 50 percent of Americans classified themselves as “Christian.” Such shifts in church decline have been documented in the Church of England (UK) for decades. As reported by the Rev. Steve Hollinghurst, Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian Culture, the Sheffield Centre, Children’s Sunday school…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ent were more mundane and predictable: Section Two redefined how we distribute numbers of representatives state-by-state, by “counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed”; and Section Three excluded from future service any member of the government who had previously sworn an oath of office to the State and then joined the Confederacy in open rebellion. Predictable stuff, really. After winning the War, Washington…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…Philadelphia. But should they have been? Bishops know that they have absolute autonomy in their dioceses. The USCCB has no authority to tell individual bishops how to run their shops. That’s why there are still two bishops who refuse to participate in the annual audits that compile sexual-abuse allegations in U.S. dioceses. And there’s nothing the USCCB can do about it—apart from suggest they mend their ways. Could the Vatican intervene? Certai…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…front and center in the healthcare debate, they have raised serious constitutional questions about what religious freedom and church-state separation mean. Many of the organizations and activists who are part of a coalition of church-state separation advocates have long done stellar work in raising awareness of encroachment of religion in politics and policy-making. Being able to keep the pressure on church-state separation issues during a campaig…

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

By Varun Soni

…Carter family, Buddy Holly and, say, Ornette Coleman, a lot of universes, but he filled them all without being a member of any school.” Culturally, the Grateful Dead embraced the spirit of Americana, a spirit of possibility and freedom. As the band moved from the margins to the mainstream, attending one of their concerts became an essential American rite of passage. Through their articulation of the United States blues, the Grateful Dead navigated…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e violence that happened on Saturday. Charlottesville is hurt and broken. But this is not just about Charlottesville: this is a resurgence of white nationalism that is being supported by our current administration. And as much as we are trying to address the needs of the community here, I also want to acknowledge that people were holding vigils all over the country for Charlottesville, and responding to this crisis. And that also, people are prote…

Missing the Anger for the Shoes

By Hussein Rashid

…o great comedic effect. Iranian films also use it for humor, because the truth is funny. It is relatively well-known that when you enter a Muslim house of prayer, you must remove your shoes. What may not be generally known is that it is customary when entering a Muslim’s home to remove your shoes. Unlike non-Muslims, Muslims consider steaming piles of dog feces unhygienic and essentially disgusting. They don’t appreciate having said feces smeared…