Religion Dispatches
…ibited from engaging in any celebrations or demonstrations while on the ground.”) The league has made exceptions, the Star reports, “for religious expressions, such as Tim Tebow’s prayer while kneeling. But Abdullah may have broken the rule by sliding with both knees into the prayer.” One knee is okay, two knees is not? Husain Abdullah was penalized for praying after a pick6…. Smh pic.twitter.com/G2j7plEawE — NBA RETWEET (@RTNBA) September 30, 201…
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…irness, some evangelicals are listening with open hearts. I have seen some come around to LGBTQ affirmation, some to the “messy middle.” In addition to disheartening exchanges, I have had a number of encouraging conversations of late. Many are trying, in some cases very hard, to come up with a language and approach that prioritizes love over judgment—all while leaving room for the belief that living an authentic LGBTQ life is a sin. There are call…
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…truction with entire submissiveness.”) Critics of the game have called it “completely vile,” in “bad taste,” and an attempt to “denigrate and mock the Bible.” Or as one member of BoardGameGeek.com explained through the site’s “Geek Mail,” “I simply want nothing to do with a game that ridicules and makes fun of personal, deeply held beliefs, no matter how much the game’s designer claims ‘it’s all in fun.’” But not everyone had scruples. George Juil…
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…ried or not wanting more children, was as high among Catholics as among Protestants.” The tendency for Catholics to mirror general public opinion on abortion has held over time. A 2007 Pew Poll found that 51% of Catholics think about should be legal in all or most cases, which is “nearly identical to the views of the public as a whole.” A 2009 Gallup Poll found “almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholi…
Read More…ng raised with none. Merino adds: “Acquiring a religious preference after being raised with no religion remains common, but is a far less frequent occurrence for later birth cohorts.” And while some studies have “cautioned that higher rates of non-affiliation among later birth cohorts may recede as individuals have more time to acquire a religion and undergo key life course events linked to increased religiosity such as marriage and childrearing,”…
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…ers have filed a single law suit against the mandate and have accepted the compromise accommodation the administration presented. We ignore the fact that, in response to a demand by the Phoenix Arizona bishop that a local Catholic hospital and then Catholic Health Care West, a large regional system sign an agreement that they would never again perform a specific type of life saving abortion, both refused and both left the Catholic Health System ra…
Read More…ce your parents named you Jon Stewart, and all you’ve ever want to be is a comedian. You especially like political humor. You find a comedy club that likes your material and they begin advertising “Daily Shows featuring Jon Stewart.” Even though the guy on Comedy Central was named Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at birth, and even though you don’t claim to be on The Daily Show, Comedy Central and Stewart et al could take you to court and get you to stop…
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…80?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Interesting here is how the containment of black protest mirrors the containment of religion within liberalism. Protest, like religion, is fine as long as it is confined to its proper, and private, place. While Sunday football and the celebration of the nation are treated as sacred rituals, we should remember the ambivalence of the term “sacred.” On the one hand the sacred invokes order, cohesion and protection; on the other…
Read More…there like a celebrity. When I saw Moore speak in Maryland at an IOTC gathering in 2011, it happened to be the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Peroutka was downright gleeful about being able to commemorate a Confederate hero’s birthday by giving his good friend Moore an award. That award was deserved, Peroutka said, because Moore “resisted a government that thought it was God.”…
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…dely debunked weeks ago, and yet it persists. Hovering at #2 on the Snopes.com “Hot 100” list of the most-circulated hoaxes, this one takes the form of a Facebook post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg (and, ahem, spells his name incorrectly). Seen it on your feed lately? It states that Facebook is instituting a “No Religion” policy, whereby “anyone spreading religious beliefs” will have their account shut down and be subject to “investigation.” Because what…
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