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‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…Copeland spitting at spiked Covid-19 particles with the caption, “Blow it away!” Image courtesy of the author. While the conference itself—aimed at pastors and church leaders concerned with “raising Godly generations”—was patently not about Covid-19, the speaker list and book offerings were a who’s who of anti-vaccine and anti-mask-mandate evangelicals. All conference registrants received a book defending gender complementarianism by John MacArth…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…s, conservative Catholic Rick Santorum is cleaning up in the South—winning Alabama, and ahead in Mississippi. What better time to tour the expansive territory claimed by conservative Christian counterculture, from science, to sexuality, to politics? And no better guides than Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson, authors of The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age. –Eds.] How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…ts in the last year when it seemed the Mormon community might take a stand against Trump’s presidency. When the candidate proposed a ban on Muslim immigration, the LDS Newsroom released a statement reaffirming its support for a plural society. And a month before the election, several prominent Mormon politicians revoked their endorsement of his candidacy, the Church-owned newspaper requested that he step down from the ticket, early polls showed Ut…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

When I participated in the Indianapolis Women’s March, I proudly held a sign that read, “I didn’t come from your rib. You came from my vagina.” The sign felt especially personal to me, not only because I fear the threats Trump poses to women’s access to healthcare and other basic human rights, but also because my very identity as a scholar pivots around a commitment to historicizing religion and unveiling its social ramifications. All of those di…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…cials Continue Anti-LGBT Campaigns Indonesia has been making a regular appearance in this recap, with a wave of homophobic rhetoric from religious and political officials. That wave continued this week, as Lester Feder and Rin Hindryati report at BuzzFeed. Last Friday, the former Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Semberling, currently a member of Parliament from the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party, tweeted that the Prophet Mohammed…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…st, in mid-August when Christianity Today ran a long story co-authored by managing editor Ted Olsen and a blogger and former businessman named Ken Smith. As Olsen tells it, his interest in David Jang dates back several years. He describes a time, over four years ago, when Christianity Today was in talks with the Christian Post about working together in some capacity. Then, Olsen says, one of CT’s partners in the Global Christian Alliance cautioned…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…ors is a case study in religious pluralism (or the impossibility thereof). Our second category winner is the most popular podcast in history, the This American Life spin-off Serial, which just wrapped up its first season. Over twelve episodes Serial untangles the 1999 murder trial of Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Baltimore Muslim who was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Serial probes pre-9/11 American attitudes towards Islam, which pl…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

On February 3, with stars Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire at full strength, the New York Knicks lost to the Boston Celtics, dropping them to a disappointing 8 wins and 15 losses. Jeremy Lin, a relatively unknown 3rd-string point guard who’d joined the team weeks earlier, took three shots, missed all of them, and ended up with two points in less than seven minutes of play. As of this past Sunday, when they defeated last year’s world champion…

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…nie Gaskill, an emerging scholar, about how a faith-based program at Louisiana’s Angola Prison showcases the kinds of nuances that so seldom emerge from polling. ________ Andrew Aghapour: What did you make of “Religious Beliefs and Public Support for Prisoner Reentry,” the study behind this Newsweek article? Stephanie Gaskill: As with other survey-based research into religion, the methodology determines the findings. Researchers usually isolate a…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…ersion therapy on Monday. Today, NPR’s ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, analyzed Monday’s story in light of the negative reaction from listeners. Briefly, Alix Spiegel interviewed Rich Wyler, founder of Journey into Manhood, and Peterson Toscano, a man who went spent 17 years in an unsuccessful effort to change his orientation. Schumacher-Matos correctly points out that much of the negative reaction centered on the presentation of Wyler and Tos…