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

By Daniel Schultz

…lying point here should be clear: not everyone is a Christian, and nowhere near everyone is a social conservative. Why, then, are those perspectives to be privileged in our political discourse? The answer, according to Jones, is that because some social conservatives are willing to make a tentative step toward reconciliation in the interest of advancing other worthy causes, progressives ought to reciprocate. As the strong in the congregation at Co…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…and producer Laverne Cox, who is a trans woman herself, burst onto the scene, rising to prominence with her powerful and authentic portrayal of trans inmate Sophia Burset in Netflix’s hit Orange is the New Black, which aired from 2013-2019. Cox’s work was truly groundbreaking in terms of on-screen trans representation and helped educate the public about the realities of trans experience. Meanwhile, Caitlyn Jenner came out in 2015, and while her r…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ama 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 picked liberals — in fact, Obama did choose many advisors who are most definitely conservative (such as Joel Hunter, who is also o…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…deral prison sentences for burning draft cards with napalm. Not to be outdone, Newsweek brought out an issue with the words “Has the Church Lost Its Soul?” emblazoned on its cover. Taken together, the Time and Newsweek Catholic stories of the late 1960s and early 1970s suggest that, after nearly a half-century, the newsweeklies’ tendency to affirm the power of the Church had given way to boldface questioning of its unity, legitimacy, and relations…

Bush Has Helped the Scarecrow of American Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…have a sophisticated vocabulary to talk about religion. One’s religion defines the way one governs. It can’t inform, it is the way one governs. If you are religious, and you can’t not be religious as a politician, then your religion has to be able to give rules on every matter of life and these must be the way you will govern. Ironically, it is the creation of a law in Christianity, and Jesus reviles the law in the synoptic gospels. The one Christ…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…abjectly patriarchal, the second was steadfastly oriented towards the divine feminine. An anti-clerical Christianity privileging not priests, but parishioners. Since 1938, the ecumenical Iona Community has held retreats in the restored Abby, dedicating themselves to the values Columba exemplified. West of Presbyterian Scotland, north of Methodist Wales, and east of Catholic Ireland, Iona was supposedly the womb for a different type of Christianit…

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

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…o had not fully counted as persons until 1865, were applied instead to big new businesses, like railroads and oil and steel. Corporations were quite literally re-defined as “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment. And lest we miss the deep interest Americans have always had in commerce and in debt, the Amendment continues by distinguishing between just and unjust debt. But that judgment is squarely in the eye of the indebted beholder. We have bee…

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

By Grant Gallicho

…ux, France, and Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle. And did Pope Benedict XVI have to promote one of the two holdout bishops—Robert Vasa—to a larger diocese? Did he not realize the message that sends to U.S. Catholics, who are still struggling to understand why Cardinal Bernard Law remains on the Congregation for Bishops in Rome, helping to decide episcopal appointments worldwide? Cardinal Rigali also sits on that influential Vatican congr…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…and center in the healthcare debate, they have raised serious constitutional questions about what religious freedom and church-state separation mean. Many of the organizations and activists who are part of a coalition of church-state separation advocates have long done stellar work in raising awareness of encroachment of religion in politics and policy-making. Being able to keep the pressure on church-state separation issues during a campaign seas…

The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…ics of the culture ways by re-conceptualizing the promise of America for a new generation of seekers and explorers. Another extremely important but too often overlooked aspect of the Grateful Dead’s legacy is their religious and spiritual significance, especially in the American context. For scholars of religion, the Grateful Dead experience looks like religion, as it contains within it all the traditional markers of religion—ritual, pilgrimage, b…