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Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…DS Church’s aggressive visual rebranding “I’m a Mormon” ad campaign—big in New York City, I understand—is an effort in part to counter the riveting images of fundamentalist LDS people that have been in the news these past few years. It’s so interesting because first of all, I am very clear with mainstream interviews that fundamentalist LDS is not the same thing as LDS. It shocks me how prevalent the conflation of polygamous fundamentalist Mormons…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…atalytic figure in the public eye. Following the House hearing, he flew to New York to participate in a press conference (his first) and to press the UN Security Council to act. Andudu is unique not only because but for a medical trip to the U.S., he might now be in a mass grave in Kadugli, and not only because he is a refugee bishop, unexpectedly cast onto the international stage—but because he actually represents the people being discussed. He i…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…who in his adult years belonged to the Fifteenth Street Friends Meeting in New York City, certainly gave evidence of those testimonies, though not always in a traditional way. Simplicity, or plainness, is perhaps the most difficult of the Quaker testimonies to define. In his communication, Rustin was a paragon of plainness; he was plain-speaking and direct. Like other contemporary Quakers with means, however, if simplicity is defined to center on…

Let My Preachers Endorse: A Modest Church-State Proposal

By Michael Leo Owens

…f what political commentator Kevin Phillips terms “American theocracy.” As New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat observes, “many liberal and secular Americans…regard religious conservatives not merely as their political opponents, but as a kind of existential threat. The religious right, they decided, wasn’t a normal political movement. Rather, it was an essentially illiberal force…” Congregation-based electioneering may further advantage…

Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…understand Islam. Lou Engle’s world is alien from my New England roots and New York life. I’d attended churches before, but nothing like this. We need to know where this fear and hate come from, what its intentions are, and who it appeals to. But as the day approached, Engle’s connections to a network of right-wing activists and political Christians came into focus. From the involvement of US Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin (who has helpfully compare…

The Pope Is Not the Church

By Nathan Schneider

…to hold the office of Peter, there is little reason to expect much. In the New York Times, Paul Elie recently suggested that in imitation of the papal resignation Catholics might “give up your pew for Lent”—that is, take at least a temporary break from their troubled Church. From time to time, one hears a call along these lines for frustrated Catholics to boycott the Church outright in protest, as if that will make the men in charge finally clean…

The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…actly, beyond explaining how the traumatized optimist Kimmy Schmidt got to New York with nothing more than a backpack full of cash and a middle school education? Well, a good place to start might be the equally ridiculously named fake religion from the elder Tina Fey/Robert Carlock creation, 30 Rock. Kenneth Parcell, you may recall, belonged to the Eighth Day Resurrected Covenant of the Holy Trinity. As we learn in the episode “Fighting Irish,” th…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…ailed to secure the bonus that was promised to the first to sight land. 7. New York City Some Muslims and Jews were expelled from Catholic Spain as early as the 11th century—the last descendants of Muslims were driven out between 1609 and 1614—and some of these made common cause with a Spanish dependency, the Netherlands, which converted to Protestantism and likewise resented religious hegemony. (How the tables have turned.) Protestant Dutch and N…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a Romanian man seeking legal residency for his American husband, which the New York Times’ Kit Gillet says “will have major implications for the legal recognition of same-sex relationships across Europe.” Coman and his American partner were married in Belgium in 2010 but “the authorities in Bucharest refused to recognize their relationship for the purposes of residency.” As we have reported previously, U.S.-based religious conservative groups like…

Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ing and being held, to grasp tightly even when the embrace is painful. The New York Times’ obituary referred to his books as “Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten.” We should take that eating seriously. Food and notions of consumption dominated Sendak’s work, from the bread and milk of In the Night Kitchen to the plethora of goodies on offer at Brundibar’s market and that book’s refrain, “Milk for mommy!” As a sickly chi…