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No More Religious Groups in NYC schools—Where’s a Hipster Church to Go?

By Nicole Greenfield

…families. The use of public schools for services may now be off-limits in New York City, but the use of other public spaces to help spread the gospel is thriving. Reminiscent of the coffeehouse churches that preceded them (which apparently were what lured the founders of Bronx Household of Faith to New York City in the first place), the theaters and the bars and the concert halls are not just cool and comfortable new spots to worship, but they ar…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…o two years of probation for skimming charity funds. Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scand…

Bright Lights, Big Bible: A Liberal, Literary Evangelical Keeps the Faith

By Liesl Schwabe

…describes her experience inhabiting the seemingly disparate worlds of The New Yorker magazine, where she worked for several years, and her Southern Baptist background and belief. ______ My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir Macy Halford Knopf, February 2017 Liesl Schwabe: In the book, as you’re recalling some of your early days at The New Yorker, you write, “It was not often that my childhood religion made an appearance in my New York life….” Can you sa…

Pastafarian Rights, Israeli Rosa Parks, Orthodox
Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…Jewish private eye. A four-alarm fire engulfed a 110-year-old synagogue on New York’s Upper East Side Monday night. The building was empty and under renovation at the time and the cause was unknown. A Manhattan judge threw out an ex-firefighter’s lawsuit attempting to stop the building of an Islamic center blocks away from Ground Zero. Facon offers Jews an option for making it through America’s “Bacon Boom.” Israeli “Freedom Riders” are women exe…

NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”

By Rob Shryock

It was recently revealed that the NYPD branded certain New York mosques “terrorism enterprises” in order to be able to investigate any attendee of said mosque at will, without charging them with a crime. These details come from the same Pulitzer Prize-winning AP probe that previously revealed that the NYPD specifically targeted the Muslim community. NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly responded to these allegations on Morning Joe, denying that the NYPD…

Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…e editors of The New York Times. The fight ostensibly concerns whether the New York Times Magazine editors responsible for the 1619 Project—and specifically Nikole Hannah-Jones, who conceived the project and who wrote the introductory piece—falsify America’s real history by presenting that history as the chronicle of a relentless and constantly morphing white supremacist ideology. With barely restrained loathing, the Project’s critics charge the T…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…he Councils, Moore, of course, is not alone. As BuzzFeed notes, and as the New York Times reported over the weekend, numerous prominent Republicans have ties to the Councils. As the Times highlighted, Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chair and former governor of Mississippi, likened the Councils to an innocuous neighborhood association, saying in 2010, “Up north, they think it was like the K.K.K. Where I come from, it was an o…

“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation

By Ann Neumann

…. This fall, he has been working to thwart new aid-in-dying legislation in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as a referendum in Colorado (which ultimately passed). In this effort, he is clearly trying to position himself as the antithesis to Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old Californian, diagnosed with the same cancer as Hanson, who died in 2014 shortly after appearing on the cover of People magazine under the headline “My Decision to Die.” H…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…Eastern European immigrants brought a Catholicism that ties the city with New York City and Boston as per capita the most Catholic in the country; how the Great Migration of African Americans brought new faith traditions; how it became home to one of the largest urban Jewish communities; and how Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists have added to the region’s spiritual diversity. Something else cuts across denominational lines, however, because faith ta…

Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with Obama on Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…ghborhood Partnerships. She described the Hawaii law, and a similar one in New York, as allowing religious employers that refuse to cover contraceptives to “provide written notification to enrollees disclosing that fact and describing alternate ways for enrollees to access coverage for contraceptive services.” However, Rogers also noted that “these state laws are far from perfect. Further, we need more information about how they have worked in pra…