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Are the Pews Half Empty or Half Full? Lessons From 734 A.D.

By Carlos Wilton

…ke the biblical Martha, are “distracted by many things”—even that may be a high bar. My brother Dave has just finished a Ph.D. in medieval literature. Recently, he emailed me a snippet from an ancient manuscript he ran across in his research. Given my occupation, he thought I’d find it amusing. In the Year of Our Lord 734, the Venerable Bede penned these lines to Egbert, Archbishop of York: This kind of observance and devout sanctification to God…

An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…ny of these largely Muslim populations fled from. Turkey can hold its head high in this regard: It has long been a place of safety for many. But recognizing the Armenian genocide opens the door to discussions of other crimes against other peoples, as well as other achievements of other people. Because history is good, bad, and ugly. Many of our histories were. We do not have to remain trapped in the past. But to do so, we must be willing to accept…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…claiming innocence than being able to discern a providential hand hovering high above your own pillaging hands. No European colonists did this rationalization better serve than the English Protestants, with their sense of themselves as a chosen New Israel. Cotton Mather’s monumental Magnalia Christi Americana is only the most famous among a plethora of “memorials” in English celebrating the role of God’s mighty hand in the white settlement of Nort…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…were for the sake of conservation efforts. But these hunting-acts are just high-profile features in a much deeper, insidious lineage; hunting-acts like these fall within a larger theological history of environmental, gendered, and colonial injustice. Zimbabwe is home to what are often referred to as the “Big Five” in Africa. The African elephant, the Cape buffalo, the African leopard, the rhinoceros, and, of course, the African lion compose the ce…

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…of the Wasatch Mountains. But then, local residents received messages that high-ranking LDS Church officials wanted them to drop their opposition. As reported in the Herald, the head of the campaign said, “I received an invitation from a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ecclesiastical leader relayed from a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles… The invitation was to support the decision of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the T…

Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…onse to an evangelical altar call. At her dentist’s office, Ali is getting high on nitrous oxide, having mystical visions of the shechinah and a black female goddess who presides over a cosmic game of Wheel of Fortune. The whole crazy mess ends with the five principals on a cruise ship, holding a poignant impromptu seder, strewing heartbreak, Spanx, and ashes in their wake. But it’s Rabbi Raquel—now promoted to series regular—who speaks to me most…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ere have been scientific papers that have hypothesized that something like high 20s to 30% of African-American men have this Y chromosome from Europe. It kind of refutes—and I’m gonna put this in big air-quotes—the “post-racial” or “color blind” paradigm that would say, Oh, this happened so long ago, there’s nobody around who this affects anymore; my family didn’t own slaves, you certainly weren’t enslaved, why are we still talking about this? To…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…xt five years partying on South Beach, trying to pick up girls and getting high. “I was a wild man. I lived a no-holds-barred lifestyle,” Tchividjian said. “If I believed it would bring me maximum pleasure in the moment, I did it, no matter what it was.” Eventually, he said, he bottomed out. He arrived home late one night, coming down from a high, and literally fell to the floor. “God, I have tried my best to ignore you and to do things my way,” h…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…el (it is endorsed by only 25% of postgraduates, but 52% of Americans with high school educations or less). Finally, the majority of Republicans are creationists. See Gallup’s report for handy visuals of these numbers. These reports raise some interesting questions. Why is South Korean creationism trafficking in amusement parks and public campaigns, instead of science buildings and churches? How can U.S. views remain virtually unchanged since the…

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

…o praised Shackelford’s work to mega-donors shortly after Alito joined the high court: “Sam told us that Kelly is someone we should know,” he wrote in an email and confirmed to the New York Times. As I wrote in American Crusade: “The Institute wants Christian supremacy. It’s fought to keep evolution out of public schools; and bible classes, Jesus portraits, and school-imposed prayer in public schools. Like other Crusaders, the Institute wraps this…