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Eid ul-Isa Mubarak. Happy Hanukah. Merry Christmas. Khushiali Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. Happy Kwanzaa

By Hussein Rashid

…s a result, December was always all holiday in my house. This is a special time that I spend in fervent and joyous prayers. Playing games with my friends—I’m working on teaching my kids dreidel now. And of course, a time to have the big family dinner; the public holiday that we all get off. Of course, no Christmas dinner is complete without latkes. It is the most wonderful time of the year. Eid ul-Isa Mubarak. Happy Hanukah. Merry Christmas. Khush…

SCOTUS Refusal Again Favors Religious Claims… But This Time in Liberals’ Favor

By Patrick Hornbeck

…cally, religious groups and their internal workings—that’s characterized a number of recent Supreme Court decisions. Since 2010, the justices have upheld the right of a church school to fire employees seeking protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act; sustained objections to the Affordable Care Act from religious organizations who felt that submitting a government form to document their opposition to contraceptive coverage involved them…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…i-Semitic violence and persecution that you see in other countries at this time can be linked to the idea that the Jews who had survived the Holocaust were going to come back and use Soviet occupation to take revenge on the societies around them. Scapegoating Jews for Communism was one way to make sense of the very real fears of what Soviet occupation and Communist rule would mean. It also reflected how astonished many people were that Jews were v…

For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

By Tris Mamone

…24:37] it says, As it was in the in the days of Noah, so it will be in the time of the coming of the Son of man. So look at all these things and it must be the year of Noah.’” By the time Stroop graduated from Heritage, he was done with Christian schooling and enrolled in Ball State University, where his parents attended college. It was in college that Stroop experienced what he calls a “completely unnecessary existential crisis” unpacking his chi…

Decoding Scalia’s Secret Hunting Society, From Jägermeister to Medieval Heresy to Buddhist Legend

By Joseph A. P. Wilson

…n hagiography of Eustace was set in Pagan Rome, a century or so before the time Augustine and Mani. But the Pagan Roman narrative context was generally a time of Manichaean-Christian solidarity. By the late third century, Manichees and Christians were grouped together and severely scapegoated. The Eustace legend is thoroughly Christianized in theological terms, but the ethical imperatives are more faithful to the Buddhist originals (and to Manicha…

With the End of ‘Roe’ the Verdict is in: The Supreme Court Majority is Christian Nationalist

By Andrew L. Seidel

…r and leading expert on the court’s use of the shadow docket, noted at the time that this “ruling was the seventh time since October that the justices have issued an emergency injunction—all of which have blocked Covid restrictions in blue states on religious exercise grounds. Before these rulings, the court had gone five years without issuing a single injunction pending appeal.” For these justices, religion deserves special treatment. Several stu…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…sides is a dismal augury of continued social and political chaos in Egypt. Time and time again, revolutionaries have eventually learned that without the rule of law and principled adherence to justice, the popular will does not translate into a moral mandate for positive social and political change. Religion can be an important ally in this process but only if it does not degenerate into a handmaiden to the pursuit of rank political power. Like th…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…ion cycle, primarily here on RD and over at The Conversationalist, but sometimes—scratch that, most of the time—it does feel like shouting into the void. I’ve been surprised to see some unusually accurate takes on white evangelicals in the New York Times lately, so maybe we’re starting to experience a slight shift? Maybe plugging away at media criticism does ultimately have at least a little impact? Still, as I certainly don’t have to tell you, mo…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…lfriend. After converting to Catholicism six years ago, Kron herself spent time “church hopping” with the hope of finding both community and meeting Mr. Right. “It was sort of this merry-go-round,” she says. “It’s exhausting, and then you don’t have a home base for your faith.” “I know that there are people who are strategic. They’re serious about their faith, but they’re going for places where there are [larger] numbers,” Kron says. “If young adu…

Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…soon followed. As Mark Oppenheimer pointed out in a piece for the New York Times, support for Black Lives Matter quickly dissipated among these young evangelicals once they realized the movement’s intersectional stance acknowledged that gay and trans lives mattered too. Mouw also claims a “large number” of Liberty University students protested that their school president, Jerry Falwell, Jr., lobbied passionately for Donald Trump throughout the cam…