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For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

By Tris Mamone

…ady Karen Pence was teaching art at a Christian school that excludes LGBTQ students and teachers. It quickly went viral with people in the “hundreds of thousands,” according to Stroop, sharing their own stories of surviving Christian schooling. “I had no idea it was going to go as viral as it did,” Stroop says, “and create a media firestorm and get on Fox and Friends at least twice.” Shortly after #ExposeChristianSchools went viral, a sister hasht…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…3-week courses was “Religious Approaches to Death.” I remember my freshmen students complaining that they had to visit funeral homes for their field trips, while other classes were able to enjoy the many outdoor features in Saint Petersburg, a gulf coast city famous for, among other things, averaging 361 days of sunshine per year. However, through our readings and trips, we learned how important it is to talk about death, to plan for it, and to un…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…w. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includes the religious motto as a hashtag. But not all schools are acquiescing to Reed’s Christian nationalism or are willing to divide schoolchildren along religious lines. Fayetteville County Schools in Arkansas complied with the new law so as to minimize alienating children. The schools put up a single framed dollar bill. In response, Ree…

A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion

By Peter Laarman

…uality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression. If the most urgent moral question of the 20th century was the question of color line, perhaps an equally urgent moral question for the 21st century is the debt line—a line not at all unrelate…

Why We Should Teach Theology in the Public University

By Jonathan Sheehan

…ies,” and discover the view that “religion options should be presented [to students] as live options for living their lives,” we have to wonder which religious options are going to be the live ones. All of them? The common default to Christianity (occasionally Judaism) with regard to theology forces us to ask: isn’t theology simply too parochial for a public university? Next, whatever the intrinsic value of any particular theological point of view…

Obama in India: Missed Opportunities

By Anna Bigelow

…ustainable social change. Yet he also gave meandering, academic answers to students pressing him on the topics of jihad and Pakistani support for terrorism. And he showed fear before principle in the decision not to risk being photographed in a head-covering going to the Sikh Golden Temple. So which is the real Obama? The one who spoke clearly at the Mumbai Taj Hotel and stood at Rajghat? Or the one who hemmed and hawed at St. Xavier’s College and…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…feminists—or soon-to-be-feminists—and generations of college and graduate students across the United States and beyond. Its influence was substantial. Mary Daly, for example, cited Saiving in her own influential early work, The Church and the Second Sex, and Plaskow herself wrote a (published) dissertation drawing substantially on Saiving’s essay entitled Sex, Sin and Grace: Women’s Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tilli…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…h young people create discourses that will (and do) sway public policy. As students joke, “It didn’t happen unless it was on Facebook.” If this election has proven anything, it is that political activism is not limited to particular age ranges or media forms. One of my friends predicted that Obama would win the election, and someone (who had, by the way, changed her middle name to “Hussein” to show support for Obama) responded, “I hope that your r…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…one of my talks, I joined a group of University College of London graduate students at a local pub. Gemma Gordon and Lindsay Hodgson, both products of England’s public schools, shared stories of being taught about the Bible in the classroom. But they also studied the Koran and the Torah. They learned about Hinduism and Buddhism. All students must take a comparative religions class. The notion that this isn’t the case in the United States is surpri…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…anizations can say whatever they want in the public square about religion. Students can pray in the schools. It’s just that the school itself can’t participate in the prayer; it can’t draft the prayer or encourage the prayer or lead the prayer. But if students want to get together before class or after school or at recess or whenever to pray, they can. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I was hoping to write a book that would b…