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Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

On August 16, an Olympic Games-fatigued American public will turn its attention toward Lake Forest, California, where Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church, and author of the mega-bestseller The Purpose-Driven Life, will host both presumptive presidential nominees, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). While the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion will not be a debate—interviews will be done separately and i…

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…are keenly aware of. We’re human. But when you’re the publisher of a news service that is, as a recent fundraising email claims, “devoted to unbiased, nonsectarian coverage of religion,” and when your background is so thoroughly sectarian—including a role in the canonization of Saint “Mother” Teresa and a pastoral trip to Iraqi Kurdistan with Cardinal Timothy Dolan—it’s vitally important that you provide no reason for anyone to believe that you f…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…istian soldiers only. It ignores the service of Jews, Hindus, Muslims, humanists, agnostics, and atheists. About one-quarter of our military are not religious at all, let alone Christian. If the Court decides in favor of the cross, the message will be the same to every non-Christian veteran and service member: Your sacrifice, your service, means nothing because you are not a Christian. The conservative bloc on this Supreme Court is dividing our na…

Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…followers to establish hundreds of schools, newspapers, hospitals, social service projects, interfaith councils, and professional associations. My sense is that most of these projects are decentralized, created by the ingenuity of those inspired by Gulen’s teachings, and not orchestrated by a central command. As already noted, Gulen’s quarters don’t give the appearance of the control center for a vast international organization. What we did see w…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…s beliefs,” according to Equality Texas. The bill applies to child-welfare services, employment, housing, marriage licensing, ceremonies, and services, health care (including gender-affirming clinical care, psychological, counseling, and fertility services). HB 2795 would allow county clerks and their deputies to abdicate their duty by declining to provide marriage licenses to all eligible applicants, if they have a “sincerely held religious belie…

Occupy Judaism: A “Turning Point” in American Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…bankers who put us in this economic situation.” The focus of the Kol Nidre service Sieradski organized was on our collective role in the financial system, and “focused on our responsibilities as Jews,” he said. He admires Jewish social justice organizations of which he’s “very, very, very supportive, I’m here because I want to bring more people to be connected to the Jewish community and to organziations in the Jewish community. But I want hold th…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…bly London we are going to try to go weekly in 2014, and we are adding the services that you get at church. Pastoral care will first come in the form of small groups, with more serious problems being passed on to relevant service providers. However, we want to take care of the whole person. Since launching the first Sunday Assembly in New York City () on June 30, 2013, this group experienced some growing pains with some the board of directors choo…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…alism is neither. Net Neutrality prohibits ISPs from charging for internet service based on usage. This seems straightforward to Barton and Green: “what they mean is we’re not going to let you choose who you need to charge more to.” But it’s not that simple. First, the internet service providers (ISPs) don’t “own” the internet. They own the mechanism for providing access but not the internet itself. Maybe more importantly, though, this is not a st…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the spiritual heart of most churches as they present themselves in worship services, websites, and other public platforms. An “atheist most days” from Virginia who had been raised in a progressive Episcopalian church talked warmly about annual youth group service trips to Haiti, Mexico, New Orleans, and other “areas in need.” He insisted that these trips had been incredibly important in his personal and spiritual development. But, he said, they we…

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…pel at Shaw University, near the staging area for the march, for a Shabbat service sponsored by Temple Beth Or. The service, led by Rabbis Lucy Dinner and Ari Margolis, included a special blessing for people who had participated in civil disobedience during last year’s Moral Mondays protests. It also included references to scriptural exhortations not to oppress the stranger, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Dinner’s message was a call for t…