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The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…hunch, not a scientific observation: we’re still waiting for the Pew Forum numbers on this one. But can you really talk Mormons in 2012 without saying the names Jimmer Fredette, Manti Te’o, and Jabari Parker? Te’o, a linebacker from Laie, Hawaii, finished his senior season at Notre Dame as the most decorated defensive player in collegiate football history. Shooting guard Fredette finished his senior season at Brigham Young University as the leadin…

Making Space For All on Aronofsky’s Ark

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…n pop culture for a movie that is biblical without being religious, I say he succeeds. But of course it’s this weekend’s box-office numbers that will have the last word….

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…of the religious right have been greatly exaggerated. While their overall numbers may be declining, conservative white evangelicals are still highly motivated to vote, as demonstrated in the midterm election this year. For the midterms, they were motivated by what politicians cast as religious liberty issues, but it’s not a stretch to imagine who those issues could be entwined with Israel. Advocacy groups already have been casting the political a…

The ‘Have More Children and Disciple Them Like Crazy’ Culture War Strategy is Neither New Nor Responsible

By Cindy Wang Brandt

…as catechized by youth group leaders, missionaries who had the zeal to add numbers to their newsletter reports—uh, I mean, for the Kingdom. Of course, as a child, I didn’t have the awareness of this culture war strategy, I simply believed I was being taught the love and grace of a good God. When I grew older and, gasp, developed my own critical thinking abilities, I began to see with more clarity the unspoken strategies put in place to ensure I st…

Physicians, “Conscience,” and the Denial of Options

By Wendy Cadge

…ieve they must refer patients to other providers in such situations. These numbers should give us pause. Combined with the new medical conscience rule they make it even more important that Americans are proactive about their health care. Patients and family members should select physicians carefully and consider questioning them about medical options and alternatives, especially when a practice is potentially controversial. We might consider talki…

Darwin: A Muslim Perspective

By Hussein Rashid

…dering the wide variety of thought we see in other faith traditions, whose numbers are significantly smaller. The UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report highlights the serious lack of science education in the Arab world. If there is no basic science education, can we realistically speak of an engagement with scientific theories? The Turk Harun Yahya seems to funded at least in part by America’s Intelligent Design supporters, indicating, more than a…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…t in their lives. However, given six decades of a repressive policy, those numbers are, according to Pew, surprisingly high. Moreover, they represent a large number of people, “nearly equal the estimated number of religiously affiliated adults in the United States” Accordingly, the 1-plus % of the Chinese population that identifies itself as Muslim equals some 20.3 million people—a population almost as large as Saudi Arabia’s. (More to the point,…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…cast shade upon them, heaping insult upon the injury of reduced subscriber numbers as mobile gaming became all the rage. All the money was micro transactions. But now the metaverse is back with us. The old incarnations linger as the new iterations arrive and take center stage. Once we started imagining the possibility of virtual worlds, our relentless pursuit was predictable. The world we live in is rich and wonderful, but far from perfect. We’ve…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…tors by noting that White evangelical Protestants turned out in far higher numbers for the former president. So perhaps the matter of ELCA support for Trump is simply a matter of perspective. On the other hand, the ELCA vote for Trump was substantially higher than that of Muslims, Jews, or the religiously unaffiliated. Likewise, 32% of ELCA members describe themselves as “conservative,” which is 20 percentage points lower than among Missouri Synod…

Churches Don’t Feed People, People Feed People

By Brie Loskota

…o understand what kinds of people make up these congregations, and in what numbers. White middle class congregations with sprawling campuses and professional ministerial, administrative, and social programs staff are not the norm. In many urban neighborhoods or among immigrant religious groups, the landscape looks quite different—in fact, the average congregation in the U.S. is about 100 members. USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture develo…