Religion Dispatches
…In the latest RD/Bloggingheads collaboration, RD contributing editor Peter Laarman interviews RD blogger and contributing writer Anthea Butler on such topics as: Fearing lesbians in high offices Man rents boy Wisconsin’s Muslims vs. “I want my country back” cheese-heads Arizona: The Hispanic Alabama? The rise of an American-style fascism Catholic Bishops granted free agency…
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…f the last war, the number of victims who were women and children, and the latest allegations being voiced by soldiers returning home from the front, could do with some soul searching—even if for some the result will only be further ratification of Israeli policy. If Churchill’s play serves as instigation for this inquiry, it will have served a worthwhile purpose. If it functions only to reaffirm what right-thinking people think they already know…
Read More…mory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your iPhone to tweet the latest execution news, like the Utah Attorney General. But for others the internet is a place for anti-religious rage. Over at the Huffington Post, they have debuted a new discussion between religion and science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science continues to seek dialogue between science and religion. University of Colorado psychologist Tor D. Wag…
Read More…y long list. Curious to see how the Trump demographic is responding to the latest scandal, I took this opportunity to survey my Facebook “acquaintances,” mostly consisting of those I grew up and went to K – 12 school with in rural northwest Oklahoma. These are folks tailor-made for the Trump demographic: white, living in or close to the hometown, Christian, and angry in ways they themselves find difficult to specify (although the frequency of thei…
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In the latest important, if entirely unsurprising, news we learned this week that white evangelicals are more opposed to transgender rights than any other demographic in the United States. The data is found in a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute, “Most Americans Generally Support Pro-LGBTQ Policies, But Are More Divided Over Specifics Like Transgender Sports and Bathroom Policies,” that contains some encouraging data about over…
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…merican Cultural & Community Center, to pray for another revival. It’s the latest stop on a nationwide “worship protest” campaign, led by Sean Feucht, a worship leader, failed congressional candidate, and would-be revivalist. Feucht’s Let Us Worship events have become regular news cycle fodder, with largely maskless crowds flouting local rules on social distancing and worship gatherings. Feucht has styled the events as protests of Covid-induced re…
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…mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch religiosity. Of course Jesus is hot, white, and soulful. Of course he is just absolutely perfect. That’s what a religious person should aspire to be: nice, clean, square, entirely in major key. More than the Biblical literalism of the film—a term which is hardl…
Read More…educe stress, and aid in multi-tasking (full text here). This study is the latest in a series linking various meditation techniques to health benefits, such as improved cognitive fluidity, increased density in the part of the brain associated with self-regulation (including dieting), decreased risk for cardiovascular disease in at-risk teens, and increased creativity. During the UW study, three groups of 12-15 human resource managers were monitore…
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…ted and a correction has been added. — eds However well-intentioned, NPR’s latest foray into “religious freedom” falls victim to several false equivalencies and ends up leaving the reader/listener vulnerable to the problematic arguments of those pushing for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Over the past week, NPR has aired at least five stories exploring the current state of LGBTQ rights as they pertain to trans students, residents,…
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…arley, the theologian and former Yale Divinity School professor who is the latest target of the Vatican’s crackdown against members of the religious communities that once built, staffed, and embodied the spirit of the Church in America. Coming as it does in the wake of the rebuke delivered last month to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the censure of Sister Farley’s book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, is enough to…
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