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Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

…l inspiration, and social movements is a separate reality from the growing number of nones. Both need coverage. But the Gallup data raises questions that I’ve rarely seen addressed in recent years. What does faith look and feel like in flyover country? As a cub reporter, I wrote about the greying mainline, their internecine squabbles and financial woes. But thirty years later, they’re still standing. Did we get it wrong or did we just forget to lo…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…om the ground, beckoning from the shadows—has transformed the suburban landscape into a set for a George Romero film. In addition, and beyond bland suburbia, monsters, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, and other playful dead inhabit stores and sell products, entertain across the television dial, and instill a dreadfully pleasurable sense of anticipation for the start of trick-or-treating. My kids want me to go trick-or-treating Friday night, hoping tha…

The Real Goal of Pro-Life Movement Support for Scott Brown: Kill Health Care Reform

By Sarah Posner

…hero of the religious right and the standard-bearer of a new conservative ascendancy. As the Democrats scramble to figure out whether to send the Senate health care bill to the House to avoid another vote in the Senate with Brown seated, the American Center for Law and Justice is gearing up for a legal battle: The people of Massachusetts have spoken and Sen. Brown must be seated without delay in the Senate. Any attempt to shut out Sen. Brown from…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…e religious freedom and democracy the new colony would soon enjoy, but a description of the Puritans’ covenantal obligations to God and the wrath they could expect from this God if they disobeyed his strict and holy will. Moore worships the same God. He was removed from the Alabama bench twice during his career as judge because of his fidelity to that God. First, in 2001 for installing and refusing to remove a massive granite monument of the Ten C…

Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

By Becky Garrison

…de services to Haiti. According to a press release issued by the Church of Scientology, “Teams of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from throughout the U.S., Mexico, Europe and elsewhere will provide administrative and organizational support to the medical teams, distribute supplies, and provide trauma relief and grief counseling to the victims and their families.” Upon further examination, whatever genuine relief they might provide appears to be of…

UPDATED: Religion Has Been Framed; Covering the Aga Khan’s Visit

By Hussein Rashid

…ommunities of interpretation. The rhetoric of conflict now permeates our discourse on religion. Once religion is framed in conflict, it must always be presented that way. When a man who leads a large Muslim community, is believed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad, and who derives his authority from that claim, comes to the United States it should be a major news story. Unfortunately, his message of tolerance, peace, pluralism, and educatio…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…el interviewed Rich Wyler, founder of Journey into Manhood, and Peterson Toscano, a man who went spent 17 years in an unsuccessful effort to change his orientation. Schumacher-Matos correctly points out that much of the negative reaction centered on the presentation of Wyler and Toscano as representative of two sides of a current debate in psychology. In fact, the official pronouncements of the mental health professions are clear that scientific e…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…ge how they understand their own identity. If academic achievement and the number or type of initials after your name is the most important thing in the world to you, then it will change how you view your own masculinity and femininity. Similarly, if having children matters most to you, then you can only be truly “manly” or “feminine” if you have kids. Is there anything you had to leave out? Historians always want to include every interesting anec…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…r authorities with their claims of abuse. But as the Catholic Church has discovered at great cost, suppressing abuse allegations only makes the issue more damaging to the religious institution when it is finally exposed. At the recent sentencing of an Orthodox abuser in Brooklyn, the mother of one victim, who did not wish to be named, told me: “They can’t keep it quiet any more. There are too many people screaming about it.” Going to Secular Auth…