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Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…w of justice is stated: the punishment must fit the crime; there must be a comparative restitution or death. Or more recently Reconstructionist (and Tea Partier) Gary DeMar wrote that restitution is the Biblical way to deal with crime: Restitution includes compensating a person for stolen or damaged property or physical harm done to someone. Restitution laws cover a variety of circumstances: assault (Exodus 21:18–19); bodily injury (21:26–27); lia…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…analysis, “despite the continued growth of religious ‘nones‘ within the population as a whole, the share of the electorate with no religious affiliation also is little changed compared with other recent midterms (12% in both 2010 and 2014).” Political organizing and turnout matter far more than numbers….

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…c alternatives like Burning Man, to wholly idiosyncratic practices such as completing paint-by-number paintings of The Last Supper. Feeding the Poor, Housing the Homeless A 7-year study with nearly 15,000 undergraduates at 136 colleges and universities across the country by Alexander and Helena Astin of UCLA’s Center for Spirituality in Higher Education provides some clues to the shaping of contemporary American religious practice. The Astins’ wor…

Economy Yields Too Few Prophets

By Peter Laarman

…20s often establish the foundation for decades of employment and earnings. Compared to this huge tear in the social fabric, compared to this massive insult to a vital part of our national household, all the common-ground chatter in DC about strengthening American families by encouraging responsible personal behavior is really quite silly and (yes) self-indulgent. When I look around, I see significant and well-funded religious coalitions for immigr…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…esday, September 30. According to the Oregonian, “‘Other sanctions include community service and multicultural education, which must be completed before the students can return to campus,’ said Brad Lau, vice president of student life.” ++++++++++ Proposition 8 Updates—New Polling Data; Gay Marriage, ‘worse than radical Islam’; and More The Yes on 8 campaign launched its first ad, which features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom making a speech say…

The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

By Patricia Miller

…conduct of the synod. The letter also gives the pontiff latitude over the composition of the synod in Articles IX and X: In choosing those who are to represent the episcopal Conferences of one or a number of nations and the religious institutes in the Synod of Bishops, great attention should be paid not just to the general knowledge and wisdom of individuals, but also to their theoretical and practical knowledge of the matter which the Synod is t…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…hing you had to leave out? Early on I decided to focus intently on a small number of newspapers, rather than try to tackle the whole range of black newspapers published before the Civil War. I’m still happy with this decision to go for depth over breadth, but it means that there are lots of papers that I didn’t have a chance to include. I would have really liked to spend some time with Frederick Douglass’ Paper, or the Christian Recorder, but happ…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…e filmmakers are careful to include one black womanpriest, Alta Jacko, who compares her decision to become ordained to Sojourner Truth’s resistance to slavery. What an African-American woman says about ordination and slavery is none of my business. And I have no problem with white women’s ordination activists stating, as some do in Pink Smoke, that their courage to stand up to the Vatican and the bishops is inspired, in part at least, by the examp…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…these ridiculous completely fabricated claims about immigrants eating pets comes out of Ohio. That’s not a story coming out of Texas. One of the oldest questions we have on this subject is about what to do with immigrants who are here in the country without documentation. We’ve been asking that question for almost 15 years now. We have a three-part question asking: Should we offer them a path to become citizens provided they meet certain requireme…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pport them in their spiritual lives by seeing that the three pillars of welcome, safety and inclusion are implanted in the Church. “These issues are complicated. Churches find the matter toxic and are, just like political parties, afraid of splits. Other Churches here have networks supporting LGBT members and these have been successful to the degree that these Churches are no longer talking ‘into themselves’, but tentatively finding ways to dialog…