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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…hese numbers lead Burge to conclude that “there’s ample reason to believe large numbers of white evangelicals don’t place a great deal of importance on abortion and don’t think it’s likely it will ever be outlawed in the United States.” Burge makes a good argument for a shift in evangelical priorities. The numbers suggest that single-issue voters on reproductive rights are less abundant than one might assume. However, it’s an overstatement to say…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…compare to the phenomenon of the 1990s? There are some striking, and familiar, similarities as well as some significant differences. An obvious difference is that of scale. The Church Arson Prevention Act established the Church Arson Task Force which began documenting the burning of houses of worship from 1995. In their first report in 1997 they reported that 429 worship sites had been destroyed by arson or bombing in two and a half years. One thi…

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

By Heron Greenesmith

…e Defending Freedom, there is nothing there to protect. ADF, and Waggoner, are arguing that asking a baker to make a cake to celebrate your marriage to someone of your same gender is closer to asking a baker to make a penis cake for a bachelorette party. The inference, in other words, is that being gay is a choice and therefore that the “message” these two men were trying to convey was the choice to marry someone of the same sex, a kind of message…

Contrary to Claims of Anti-Trans Muslims, LGBTQ+ Acceptance is Widespread in the History of Islam

By Ali Olomi

…mustarjil are born female, but present as men. In Wilfred Thesiger’s The Marsh Arabs the guide, Amara explains, “A mustarjil is born a woman. She cannot help that; but she has the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.” When asked if the mustarjil are accepted, Amara replies “Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif.” Amara goes on to describe how mustarjil have sex with women. The complexity of gender is reflected in Islamic la…

Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…Faiths,” and options for “Unaffiliated (religious ‘nones’),” “Nothing in particular,” and “Don’t know.” For the religionist, these categories should be as exciting as the data linked to them (…who are these people who don’t know their religion, what is their background, their idea of what “religion” might mean or be?) but the categories themselves are also obviously, immediately flawed (…is it always a choice, between either Jewish or Agnostic, m…

The Religious Case Against Religious Discrimination in Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…se to serve others of a different faith, or of no faith. The denominations are careful to note that there are situations involving religious practice where the First Amendment clearly prohibits the government from interceding to enforce nondiscrimination laws. An Orthodox rabbi, for instance, should not be forced to solemnize the marriage of a Jew and a non-Jew, and a Catholic bishop should not be required to ordain a woman, because both of these…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…unsurprising. The conservative organization has an established history of targeting scholars who work on racial justice, with many of my colleagues in religious studies coming under fire. Research has shown that Campus Reform’s so-called attempts to reduce “liberal bias” have led to professors facing harassment and even being dismissed by their institutions. Such attacks have now become state-sponsored with anti-critical race theory laws being pas…

Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam

By Asma Afsaruddin

…selves are not overtly political have been deployed in the public sphere, particularly in the modern period, as having notable political and administrative implications. Whether such principles can provide the impetus for the formation of democratic forms of government today remain a highly-debated subject. Most rigorous scholars of Islamic and/or comparative political thought today, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, do not perceive any serious theolo…

A Secret History of Satan

By W. Scott Poole

…ith what scholars call “the satanic panic.” Evangelicals’ insistence that dark powers are at work everywhere in the culture has always had a huge fascination for me, and this book gave me the opportunity to trace the background of that fascination. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I hope readers come away with two things. First, that American popular religion and popular culture have tended to influence one another in very…

Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?

By Elesha Coffman

…in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1807 by Congregationalists who feared that Harvard had become overly Unitarian. About a century later, Andover reconciled with Harvard and moved its faculty back to Cambridge. When the Massachusetts Supreme Court disallowed a merger between the two schools, Andover instead moved in with Newton Theological Institution, an American Baptist seminary with a campus in Newton, Massachusetts. After more than 30 years of thi…