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Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…fueled obsession with hearing ourselves speak, we could just shut up for a minute and listen to the wisdom of those who have gone before? … [What millennials really need] from the church is not another yes-man entity enabling my hubris and giving me what I want. Rather, what I need is something bigger than me, older than me, bound by a truth that transcends me and a story that will outlast me; basically, something that doesn’t change to fit me and…

Muslim Women Create a Mosque of Their Own in Los Angeles

By Brie Loskota

…r religious traditions, reporters, and a few Muslim women were seated. As Maznavi and Sana Muttalib, the Women’s Mosque’s co-President welcomed the crowd, the women broke into applause when Muttalib noted that “we will not be policing any bodies.” It was the policing of women’s bodies and limiting of their spaces within mosques that gave Maznavi the final push to transform what she called “her life-long desire to build a mosque” into a specialized…

Creationists Portray New Science Standards As “Big Government”

By Michael Schulson

…itical thinking to young people? Not everyone is pleased. Over at WORLD magazine this past week, Casey Luskin’s argument for why conservative evangelicals should be distressed about the new standards offers a useful portrait of how anti-evolution writers stoke fear—and a helpful demonstration of why the NGSS is so badly needed. Luskin is an attorney, a writer, and a staff member at the Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think-tank. (I rece…

NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”

By Rob Shryock

…America.” Kelly’s support of these ideas led him to take part in a ninety-minute interview for the movie, which he then played on a loop while officers were being trained in counter-terrorism. To the officers it could only have seemed like a clear endorsement of Jasser’s views. Of course, it’s convenient for Kelly to embrace this sort of anti-mosque Islamophobia. It’s an ideology that offers a clear way forward: keep spying on mosques, keep probi…

Atheists Who Don’t Like “Under God” Can Leave

By Rob Shryock

…dge of Allegiance “don’t have to live here.” This was followed by the two-minute lightning round of atheist-bashing. Greg Gutfield claimed that atheists should just be thankful for not living in a Muslim country, where they might be killed for their beliefs, while Kimberly Guilfoyle, calling atheists “selfish” and “small minded,” accused them of wanting to be “catered to.” The segment ended, bizarrely, with host Bob Beckel claiming that the last…

Cali Dept of Corrections v. Peter Laarman On Prison Crowding

By The Editors

…her burden locals – and jeopardize public safety – with the release of thousands of inmates. With the clock ticking, the emergency plan the Governor is pursuing allows the state to meet the federal court order, while we continue to make long-term improvements to California’s criminal justice system. That’s smart policy, not “political expediency.” Peter Laarman responds: Simply put, Ms. Hoffman is changing the subject, calling attention to a Publ…

Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rfect. To dress right and act right and not track our muddy boots into the sanctuary. That comes from the fact that the locus of authority has shifted in our culture. Human experience has authority in a way that it never has before in human history so if I am experiencing something about myself or the world and I go to church and it’s either not acknowledged or it’s contradicted, why in the world would I go back? Why would the church or Christian…

Ghosts of Halloween Past

By The Editors

…The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween Hell Houses LUCIA HULSETHER A 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods offers violence, fear, and an Obama-like Antichrist Jesus Goes to the Dark Carnival: Hell House Gets a Makeover W. SCOTT POOLE A demon guides you through the shadows. The bodies of teenagers are strewn about like broken dolls in the mangled remains of a car, bottles of Jim Beam tellingly scattered about the wreckage… All Candy, N…

New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion

By Jay Michaelson

…giving. That may not seem like a lot, but just crunch the numbers for a minute. The study found that 65% of religiously-affiliated people donate to congregations or charitable organizations. (More on that statistic later.) 80% of Americans are religiously affiliated. And 65% of 80% is just about… 55% of the total. In other words, the religious people who are giving say they’re giving because of religion. And they’re overwhelmingly giving to r…

Religious Freedom Extravaganza

By Sarah Posner

…d some common ground between two people who disagree on an issue. The five-minute condensed version of our hour-long discussion, is up at The Atlantic. The whole discussion is available at bloggingheads.tv. The second discussion, on my own bloggingheads show, was with Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson, about the fallout from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of the controversial religious freedom bill there. Matt goes against the grain of much of conser…