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Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…arted the third grade . . . Grown-ups did not understand that summers were free from grades.” She also catches grown-ups speaking earnest nonsense. Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel may be about, as her teacher tells her, “digging the basement of the town hall,” but Ramona knows that her pressing question, namely, “how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom when he was digging the basement of the town hall?” stand…

They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

By Kaya Oakes

…ffiliated were not likely to stay that way as adults, two-thirds of adults today who were raised without religion stay nonreligious. In other words, this is becoming permanent. Circumstances, of course, have changed since the 1970s. Greater rates of religious intermarriage, including marriages between religious and nonreligious couples, mean that children are growing up with differing ideas about religiosity than they had in the past. Gen Xers are…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…t’s repertoire. Whether in the mid-century propaganda of the Red Scare, or today’s hysteria over “cultural Marxism,” antifa, or Jewish space lasers, this framework is essential to the Right’s popularity and success. This is the intellectual structure of the National Conservative and MAGA movement’s populism, requiring conspiracy theories that place blame on (((certain people))) while leaving untouched the systems of deregulated capitalism that act…

New Poll Shows Gays and Lesbians Believe in God

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in your life today,” such a relationship was more common among non-gays (75%) than among gay adults (58%). The research also revealed that straight adults were nearly twice as likely as gays to qualify as born again Christians (47% compared to 27%, respectively). So, while gays and lesbians claim faith, their “some type” of relationship with Jesus Christ is not the same type of relation…

40 Million Nonbelievers in America? The Secret Is Almost Out

By Ronald Aronson

…from labels as they seek their own bearings and their own comfort zone in today’s America. Secularists welcomed President Obama’s shout-out to nonbelievers during his inaugural address, but are painfully aware that when launching his campaign he criticized them for trying to keep religion out of the public square, but not the religious right for its attempts to erase the line between church and state. They worry, along with Americans United for t…

Hacking the Vatican

By Joseph Laycock

…ement on the group’s Italian-language website declared, “Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organization spreads around the world.” The statement alluded to the burning of heretics, the repression of Galileo, the genocide of Native Americans, aiding Nazi fugitives, and the more recent sexual abuse scandal. Anonymous members attemp…

Obama Muffs Question On Faith-Based Hiring Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…First Amendment. On the one hand, the First Amendment ensures that there’s freedom of religion. On the other hand, we want to make sure that religious bodies are abiding by general laws. Where this issue has come up is in fairly narrow circumstances where, for example, you’ve got a faith-based organization that is providing certain services, they consider part of their mission to be promoting their religious views, but they may have a day care cen…

Dear Common Grounders, Religious Progressives, and Ecumenical Seminaries…

By The Editors

…l scholarship, a yet more widespread commentary on the tendency of many of today’s evangelical leaders to focus on tiny segments of scripture—this might be a valuable service. And might it cement an accommodation not with the evangelicals, but with secular intellectuals? That might be a good thing. The salient solidarity today may not be with the community of faith but among those who accept Enlightenment-generated standards for cognitive plausibi…

An Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Feminist and Abolitionist Founder Who Has Slipped into a Memory Hole

By Andrew L. Seidel

…he more glorious the triumph. Gripping and relevant as the words still are today—this is the paragraph Rep. Raskin quoted at the Summit for Religious Freedom in April 2024—think of what it must have been like to read or hear those words in the bleak winter of December 1776. The American people needed a victory on which to pin the last shreds of their hope. They needed a win. General Washington had Paine’s words read aloud to his soldiers on Christ…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…el parallels that of the United Farm Workers. Swirling comparisons between today’s economic crisis and the Great Depression add a soupçon of FDR to Obama’s aura as well. (For a piece on the many ways that Obama has been compared to other presidents, read “Coming soon…Obama as Millard Fillmore.”) And, like his predecessors, Obama draws on the iconography of American history by citing our founding texts as well; in Baltimore, for example, Obama said…