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Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…awfully close to the sacrifices of Jesus. And if that were not enough evidence, the concluding stanza contains the line, “To be alone with me and went up on the tree.” Now, it’s not impossible that Stevens is referring to a regular old meeting between two friends in a regular old tree as having profound personal significance. But if you swing Occam’s Razor in the direction of that song, you’re going to slam right into the cross. The critic conclud…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…l stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.” And Abraham Lincoln: “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” And Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.” So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…White evangelicals, Americans were learning about trans people, and that encouraged me as a trans woman who had yet to come out. I felt like acceptance was just around the corner. How quickly times change. Things went downhill fast when Donald Trump became president and prioritized the Christian Right’s policy goals, including attacks on the rights of transgender Americans. And even now with Democrat Joe Biden as president and Democrats in contro…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ht itself: one of its core aims is the reversal of Supreme Court jurisprudence on the separation of church and state. President Obama chose Rogers for the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and she ultimately shepherded the drafting of the Council’s recommendations, particularly those on reforming aspects of the Office that critics believed violated the Establishment Clause. That’s not to say that he only…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…iconoclasm. When the new pope is soon shown within Time’s familiar red frame he will likely appear in full and flattering light, but only briefly. Is it any wonder that the last newsweekly standing would gravitate toward stories of once-unquestioned authority undermined and reduced to a shadow of its former significance? This is, after all, a story it knows quite well. *This essay was adapted from a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…dependence. No, the sophistication of language I refer to is the one of nuance. The curse that has plagued the coverage of Islam since the Iranian Revolution, that it is one monolithic religion, is really the plague on religion coverage in general. Over these last years, as the religious right has risen in power, as it attempts to actually create a monolithic understanding of Christianity, Christians have fought back. We now know that not all Evan…

Rise of Episcopal Village

By Becky Garrison

…t-Christian Culture, the Sheffield Centre, Children’s Sunday school attendance, for instance, has drastically plunged over the past century, dropping from 80 percent at the start of the century to 12 percent. In an article I penned for Yale Divinity School’s Reflections magazine, I observed that explorations of alternative worship/emerging church culture have been transpiring over in the UK for decades. In 2004, the Church of England responded to…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rts’s insistent questions. The question he kept pressing on those arguing incampaign finance laws and against the (anti)Clinton video was a strange one: “Isn’t a corporation really like an individual, under the law?” And it occurs to me that it is this very confusion that has hamstrung reasoned debate about health care reform for the past several months. In short, health care is about the care of people. But our legal system is organized to care f…

Too Late for Apologies: Three Steps the U.S. Bishops Should Take to Prevent Another Sexual Abuse Scandal

By Grant Gallicho

…tions against priests for a range of abusive acts, but it’s also too idiosyncratic to be of much use to review boards. They need more guidance. Third, require that all allegations be forwarded immediately to review boards. In many dioceses, such as Brooklyn, every allegation goes to the review board. In Philadelphia, however, someone with the archdiocese had been pre-screening accusations, deciding which were worthy of the review board’s conside…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…to become better organized as a political force, even as they increase in number. The major impediment to that kind of organization is the fact that it is very difficult for secularists to conceive of themselves in tribal terms. Most tribes, whether of nations or ethnicities or sports fandom, can easily demarcate their membership—it’s the people who look like us, or talk like us, or dress like us. Tribes organized around religious belief have rit…