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Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…RD essay—that religious freedom is a singular achievement, an easily understood state of affairs, and that the problem lies in its incomplete realization. Our collaborative project has sought to understand the different conceptions of religious freedom at play in the world today, their different social and political contexts, and their varied histories. Neither my work nor our project takes a position for or against religious freedom. To assume t…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…uitting in protest) the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration today. And its performance couldn’t be more prominently placed, “sandwiched,” as a headline in Deseret News announced this week, between Pence’s oath and those of the new president. But there were moments in the last year when it seemed the Mormon community might take a stand against Trump’s pr…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…in the United States of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? What a country! The stalwart, enduring presence of the Ten Commandments—and within every nook and cranny of American daily life—is something to behold and interpret. So, too, is the porousness of the divide between religious and cultural expression and, most especially, the vitality and interpretive utility of things. Is there a…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…olicy imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that triggers the most exacting scrutiny.” The Court further held that Missouri’s stated reason for the policy—to avoid potential Establishment Clause violations—was insufficient. The Court’s opinion stands in stark opposition to earlier religious funding decisions, and especially its 2004 opinion in Locke v. Davey. In Locke, the Court upheld a state scholarship program that prohibited recip…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…he Barna definition of “evangelical” is fairly restrictive, more like what most of us would call “fundamentalists.” Among the broader “born-again” segment, Trump still leads by eighteen points, 49-31. But then there’s this: Like her GOP opponent, Clinton claims the allegiance of several faith segments. Among them are notional Christians (i.e., people who consider themselves to be Christian but are not born again – the largest of the three Christia…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…the sheer volume has made us, collectively, comfortably numb. But Trump’s most recent comments should jar us back to our senses. They signal something new, even for Trump—that he has now fully embraced the rhetoric and strategies of the Nazis. If we care about democracy and the safety of all of our neighbors and fellow citizens, we can’t dismiss these comments as typical bluster or with a wave of the hand because “Trump is just being Trump.” Here…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…ight “damned” America, discredited himself (in the mainstream press) and almo*]}*st took Obama down with him, while McCain’s pursuit of the demented John Hagee’s endorsement almo*]}*st sent the candidate home to Arizona. 3.) TOP TEN RELIGION STORIES FROM CHRISTIANITY TODAY What’s particular to this list, posted by the Billy Graham-founded “magazine of evangelical conviction,” is the focus on international Christianity. Number five on the CT list: Christia…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…iving generations. Incrementalism in Catholicism is measured in centuries. Most of us live less than a hundred years. The damage to women and queer people is going on right now. I shared my unease with my Australian colleague in the study of religion, Tracy McEwan, who gave words to my concerns. McEwan, along with Kathleen McPhillips and Miriam Pepper, co-authored the landmark study of 17,200 plus Catholic women that was fed into the Synod convers…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…ump was clearly the winner, but beyond that, it gets hard to award points. Most of the candidates “won” in the sense that they didn’t flame out and/or eat a live baby on television, and most of them got off a good line or two. Carson didn’t get a lot of speaking time, but he used a bit of humor (“I’m the only one to take out half of a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it”) and thoughtfulness to d…

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

By Frances Kissling

…re of what we called Father “What-a-wastes”… outgoing, kind, good looking, mostly young men who made you wonder what they were doing in the priesthood. They’d make, we thought, great husbands and fathers. But alongside them were many profoundly unhappy and lonely men, poorly adjusted and quietly drinking themselves to death. These men got little help from the church who saw their problem as moral weakness, not a disease; the church made no connect…