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Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%

By J. Dana Trent

…. What’s fascinating is that now the book has found its feet among college students (Generation Z, ages 16 to mid-20s). They’re curious how Dessert First translates to their experience and what the world’s traditions have to say about death and the afterlife. The book’s content has woven its way into my classroom, not as part of any curriculum, but out of students’ unprompted curiosity. Dessert First morsels help younger people process the kinds o…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…most hardline Christian school in Indianapolis. While Heritage encouraged students to get involved with Billy Graham’s 1999 crusade in our city, Colonial Christian School essentially forbade its students from even attending. As class of ’99 Colonial graduate Jennifer Berry related to me in a Facebook exchange, “I did get the distinct impression they disapproved of Billy Graham in particular for his association with Martin Luther King, Jr.” Does t…

Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…s student groups at public universities and high schools to turn away LGBT students, ostensibly in the interest of permitting “students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints.” Kentucky’s new law is just the latest salvo in a growing trend that uses weaponized “religious freedom” legislation to target specific state functions or agencies, effectively gutting existing LGBT protections in those areas. South Dakota led the way, foll…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…ince. I mostly teach the history of twentieth-century horror to my college students though I have one class, a history of monsters of the ancient world, that contemplates the roots of the modern genre. These roots run deep in the world’s religious systems. I, and I hope my students, are often struck with how Christianity created a world of poisonous, deadly creatures with which to populate its mythology while other religious cultures managed to ma…

Let’s Stop Calling Rape and Harassment by Bikram Yoga Founder Just Another “Guru Scandal”

By Andrea R. Jain

…s revealed sexual corruption and secrecy as central to their lifestyles. A number of yoga gurus have been outed as sexually active, usually with young, white, female students. These scandals have left the American public thinking the “guru model” is problematic for its inherently undemocratic tendencies, suspecting the model is an extreme form of authoritarianism that inevitably leads to demise. In 1993, for example, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad w…

Predatory Prayer: When Does “Please” Not Mean “Please”?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…icularly in power-unequal relationships like the ones between teachers and students. Of course it’s possible for students to enter such relationships consensually, but it’s also possible for them to say yes to things like sex or dinner for fear of reprisal in the classroom. At oral arguments last month, Bormuth quoted speciﬁc language the commissioners have used before the prayers: “Please rise, all rise, would you please rise, … it goes on. All r…

Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…r wrote that God answered his prayer, or that God revised God’s ways as my students have to revise theirs. But if Wiesel could not teach God, he could do the next best thing. He could teach Oprah. Redemption is always around the corner for her (and for us, the audience). Trauma can always be put to rest once and for all. Kathryn Lofton has written about Oprah’s spiritual capitalism, in which consumption—of pashminas, makeovers, diet manuals, uplif…

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…s faculty and staff at a wonderful small liberal arts college with lots of students who are mixed (in many ways) we wrote this book to let those young people read about households that also combined different traditions and heritages and customs. Of course we wrote for our fellow academics and so we worked from the literature and triple check all of our methodological steps. Next, we’ve been really impressed with efforts in the American Jewish com…

When Rabbis Seized Control of the Synagogue: The Role of Authority in American Judaism

By Zev Eleff

…question. I suppose, as a teacher and scholar, my role is always to engage students and readers. Entertaining, then, is a core component in any successful scholarly enterprise. My book—I think anyway—doesn’t have an agenda. As a historian, I am moved to discover (or rediscover) new ideas and facts and reconstruct a historical moment with theses and other scholarly scaffoldings. That’s my truest agenda. If I, as a historian, and the reader, as a st…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Obama administration’s groundbreaking guidance that suggested transgender students be allowed to use the school facilities that correspond with their gender. Desanctis suggests that Trump should “dissolve” the Department of Education policy that was celebrated by LGBT advocates nationwide when it was announced by the Education Department and Department of Justice in a one-two punch that also saw the DOJ file a federal civil rights lawsuit against…