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New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e possibility of recruiting a representative sample of prospective lesbian mothers was even more unrealistic than it is today.” The researcher for the new study, Mark Regnerus, isn’t free from his own bias, however. As Freedom to Marry points out in a press release on the study, Regnerus, ”is well known for his ultra-conservative ideology and the paper was funded by the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation – two groups commonly known…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…personal encounter and relationship with Jesus”), family and marriage (promotion of the “traditional” family), human life and dignity (opposition to abortion and euthanasia), vocations and ongoing formation (shoring up the rapidly declining number of priests and nuns) and, of course, religious freedom (Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who arranged Kim Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis, received two standing ovations from the bishops.). Then the deba…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…lars and historians of religion are producing great works right now that demonstrate how significant belief is for most people. We all know that there are varied influences on people’s identity, but for a time, there was the idea that religious belief was solely a stand-in for other interests. I simply think that idea is wrong. I want to be clear that I think that religious belief can be, and often is, intertwined with other things, but it is stil…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…en’s work,” while my partner is in charge of the garbage disposal and lawn mowing chores. She also does most of the cooking, though. Those divisions don’t mean someone is “the man” and someone else is “the woman,” it simply means we’ve had to work out the chores in ways straight couples might take for granted, even if the wife would be better suited to mow the lawn, and the husband a better cook. But, research by scholars, especially gay ones, car…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…at some have labeled the season of the witch. Surely this reorientation to mortal and immortal matters is not surprising considering this election’s campaign cycle has not only resurrected the memory of Robert Kennedy’s assassination in the democratic primaries, but also identified the accidental death of Joe Biden’s wife and daughter in the vice-presidential debate, and finally, unfolded in the midst of a war that has cost many tens (if not hundr…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…would improve Iyengar’s physical state. It did. Iyengar became the most famous among the yoga prodigies and teachers to have studied under Krishnamacharya. After studying for three years with his guru, Iyengar moved to Pune, where he developed his own postural yoga system that was informed by Krishnamacharya’s approach and techniques as well as increasingly refined biomedical understandings of the body. Beginning in the 1950s, Iyengar attracted w…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…Trump’s Utah loss follows his earlier defeats in the second and third most Mormon states, Idaho and Wyoming, where he lost to Cruz by 18 and 59 points, respectively. To add insult to injury, a recent poll conducted by the LDS Church-owned Deseret News found Utah would vote for a Democratic candidate in November over Trump. Utah hasn’t sided with the Democrats since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide election in 1964. Why have Mormons rejected Trump? As Bu…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…stitutions for youth will be stripped bare because of lawsuit payouts, and number of vocations, already low, will become even lower because of the stigma attached to being a priest. The test of Moral Credibility has been found wanting, and the handwriting is on the wall. Even the National Catholic Reporter’s editorial page has called for the Pope to provide answers. No doubt about it, this is perhaps the second biggest crisis in “Christendom,” out…

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

…on’s saliency for political machinations, cultural inspiration, and social movements is a separate reality from the growing number of nones. Both need coverage. But the Gallup data raises questions that I’ve rarely seen addressed in recent years. What does faith look and feel like in flyover country? As a cub reporter, I wrote about the greying mainline, their internecine squabbles and financial woes. But thirty years later, they’re still standing…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…nder concluded: “This is the Land of Promise, possessed by idolators, the Amorite, Amalekite, Moabite, Canaanite. . . . Since we are commanded by God in the Holy Scriptures to take it … [and] to put them all to the knife.” Not to be outdone, the Puritans regularly invoked the Canaanite conquest as they entered their “Promised Land.” In his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), Cotton Mather imagined the Puritans as cosplaying a divinely inspired geno…