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Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…and others as a test, mano a mano. The film sentimentalizes individualized competition as the greatest of risks, reinforcing meritocracy as a moral metric in a ‘free market’ system. In this sense, it is no surprise that MMA is rising in popularity—its violence not only symbolizes ‘authentic’ sport, masculinity, and bodily autonomy but viscerally recruits and emotionally seduces regardless of whether we find it right or wrong. The felt distinctions…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Ep 2 Recap: A Family Man With a Wild Side

By Benjamin E. Park

…and his friend, Shannon Flynn, racing cars and shooting guns, which is over-the-top hokey, accompanied by what the closed captions aptly describe as “exciting 80s music.” But every true-crime drama needs more than the devious villain; they also need the daring good guys. In Murder Among the Mormons, the men who bring Hofmann to justice are a goofy and loveable group of detectives led by Gerry D’Elia, an outsider to both Utah and its dominant faith…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…r violence against groups based on their sexual orientation. In Málaga, pro-equality activists protested the cardinal-to-be’s comments with a kiss-in at the cathedral. Russia: Orthodox Church Pushing for More Anti-Gay Measures Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has asked lawmakers to ban “any attempt” to legalize same-sex marriage and portrayed a closer tie between church and state as a positive step: When the state adjusts its every…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ilable on many church websites” encouraging Catholics to vote no, reported News.com.au. Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne said church workers might be fired if marriage equality was legalized, though this report was later clarified that it would be up to each bishop to decide on their employment policies. Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane recently said the love of same-gender couples is “like the love of friends.” But Catholics, including som…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…’s father. All women who seek to end a pregnancy must appear before a three-member committee to state their case, but 98 percent of requests are approved. Women under the age of 20 or over the age of 40 were also previously eligible for subsidized abortions, regardless of the reason. * * * * Among Israel’s religious right wing, there have been low grumblings of protest against the new law, but for a nation where a woman’s hemline or her seat on a…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…s. When you are baptized, like I was, on the eve of puberty, it is a coming-of-age ceremony, a rite de passage—again, a common practice across cultures. Sometimes, though rarely, an adult is baptized. Then it signals a religious conversion, the culmination of a profound personal transformation. I rambled. “But what do you think it means?” he asked. It was a fair question. I had just seen my own children baptized. “It means,” I said, “you’re a chil…

Supreme Court to Hear Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Cases

By Sarah Posner

…l Kyle] Duncan maintained that the notion of a corporation having religious-freedom rights was “not a novel proposition,” but admitted there were no cases “squarely on point.” The vociferous dissents in Tenth Circuit’s 168-page opinion point to the conflicting legal theories that in all likelihood will be sorted out by the Supreme Court. The Tenth Circuit’s chief judge, Mary Beck Briscoe, excoriated the majority for finding that the operation of a…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…aching. White Protestants (my peeps) have too often tended to cling to a by-your-bootstraps ethic of individual achievement, joined to a suspicion that there is something slightly sinister and foreign about union leaders and about the union concept of class solidarity. I grew up ten miles from the Kohler Company’s sprawling furnaces and factories in eastern Wisconsin during the seemingly endless and ultimately victorious struggle by the UAW to uni…

Muslim Beard Decision was a Boost for “Religious Liberty” Advocates

By Kara Loewentheil

…the courts have been fairly willing to recognize third party harms when it comes to deference to a government’s decisions in the prison context (unlike when it comes to reproductive rights, as in Hobby Lobby). Justice Ginsburg’s concurrence, therefore, reads to me as an attempt to draw attention to that aspect of RLUIPA case law and to maintain its relevance, despite the fact that it didn’t do as much work as one might have hoped to protect third…

Walt Whitman’s Sacred Democracy

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…oni Morrison and Cornel West, to this august list of American spiritualists-in-letters—was ultimately a psalmist of the human spirit. He was, as we would now say, “spiritual (or sacred), not religious.” But then, in his judgment, that’s what democracy is all about. The very coin of the democratic realm is “sacred.” Whitman saw the work of fostering such a “religious democracy” as the work of the 20th century, and that task continues unabated toda…