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Gen Z’s Religious Affiliation Stats Are Confusing … But Only When Viewed From a Christian-Centric Perspective

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…rently think they should be attending religious services. And here again, thinking this way can privilege certain ways of being religious: What if prayer is silent or ongoing in your practice, or what if there is no house of worship? And there is no straight line between quantity of practice and self-identified quality of religiosity. What if I just really love Catholic Mass although my family is Jewish? What if the more I pray the more I doubt? (…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…ier, and apparently, more attractive to those being tracked. Orwell or Oral? Seems like a win for both. Also on the Cubit: Touching the Hem of His Garmin?…

Single, But Married To Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…ck women who don’t care or want to be married get some peace. Sheesh! The only white I want to wear in the immediate future is my Philadelphia Eagles football jersey….

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…The TEKS do not require equivalent coverage of the major divisions in Buddhism, Hinduism, or Islam—even though these are, after all, world history standards, and those religions represent billions of people. The world history TEKS also foster a one-sidedly positive version of Christian history. They expect students to explain how Christianity was “a unifying…factor in medieval Europe,” but not how Christianity was also a divisive factor (e.g., th…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…rightward, and nobody remembers that it was ever otherwise. That’s why I think history is one of the most important weapons progressives can use to fight the slow but steady accretion of imperial customs. Compromise is a forward-looking endeavor. But you can’t honestly compromise if you don’t know what you’re giving up. Liberals won’t “get it”—the “it” being the influence of American fundamentalism—until they remember what they’ve already given u…

Rumors of the Suicide of the Liberal Church Are Exaggerated: A Response to Chris Hedges

By Mark Hulsether

…tives have been trying to shovel dirt on its grave ever since. There is nothing new about this. UTS has sold off parts of its property several times in the past to stay afloat, and Columbia University has already taken over parts of its quadrangle. Will the current sale be enough to stop the bleeding? Maybe. This depends largely on the wider trajectories of liberal churches, as well as fine print to which Hedges and I are not privy. Is it a fatal…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…mes Cone‘s work and Albert Cleage‘s story. You see how people saw 1968 as this real shift in black religion. It’s a reminder that even in the Black Power movement, religious faith was deeply embedded. Okay, I really didn’t want to choose but my absolute favorite piece is in fine arts, in the visual arts gallery. It’s a beautiful illustration by the very famous and well-collected African American artist Charles White called “Move On Up a Little Hig…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…domination, science, reason, and masculinity. Yoga became a means through which Hindu nationalists could display Indian strength and independence in response to these Orientalist representations, which were used to support the colonial project. Nevertheless, the story of yoga’s popularization doesn’t end there. Yoga didn’t become a part of popular culture until the late twentieth century when it was tied to a number of social trends, including the…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…Democratic votes in the primaries, Obama had explicitly rejected the view which, in his words, identifies being pro-Israel with “adopting an unwaveringly pro-Likud view of Israel.” Now that he has secured the nomination, however, he has appeared to have changed his tune. Endorsing Israel’s Annexation of Jerusalem Most disturbing was Obama’s apparent support for Israel’s illegal annexation of greater East Jerusalem, the Palestinian-populated sector…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…iting, debating and voting. White evangelicalism, as a political ideology, hijacked this moment with anemic theological impositions when American communities, especially those of color, hungered for political solutions to preventable death. In remembrance of every enslaved African that longed for freedom under the irrational threat of violence, the Native American victims of Wounded Knee, and every interned Japanese American, we make America redee…