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Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…stored in Knoxville, Tenn., that the issue burst into mainstream media. Within weeks, the White House, news media, and National Council of Christian Churches began working together to document and formulate responses to this wave of attacks on Black churches. USA Today and the New York Times provided daily coverage, as did major television network news programs. They deployed many reporters on the story, who were in communication with the Justice…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…tion that orient the quest for improvement, the traditional religious and philosophical narratives that are tacitly embedded in this quest, and the shame many people experience as a byproduct of their particular body’s refusal to live up to the normative ideal. (Notice my preference for the word refusal—instead of failure—in the previous sentence). My analysis interrogates prominent religious/cultural norms and narratives that encourage us to go t…

The Catholic Apocalypse Cometh

By Patricia Miller

…ese middle-income white voters are Catholics in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin that swung heavily, and unexpectedly, toward Trump. And among these voters, who aren’t necessarily economically struggling the same way that blue-collar voters are, the Affordable Care Act loomed large. Just over 80 percent of Trump voters said the ACC “went too far.” As Olga Khazan reported in The Atlantic, it’s upper middle-income voters who do…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…de of white evangelicals; the Utah College Exit Poll, however, with a much higher number of Mormon participants, put the number closer to 45 percent. Both figures are well below previous Mormon voting percentages for the Republican candidates, but they indicate that at least half of Latter-day Saints were willing to stomach Trump’s apparent moral deficiencies. This turn of events has historical precedent. Though the LDS Church’s political affiliat…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…an called Wyler’s therapy “a softer, conversational treatment that allowed him to return to his conservative Christian roots.” In addition to mislabeling Wyler’s church, Schumacher-Matos misunderstands Wyler’s therapy. At Religion Dispatches, Ted Cox and I gave brief descriptions of what Wyler now offers. Male leaders cuddling male participants like babies and vicariously beating their fathers into a pulp are not features I would associate with so…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e persecution, including labor camps and expulsion. It remains to be seen which historical precedents will inform Cuba’s overall democratic transition and the inclusion (or lack thereof) of LGBT Cubans in that expansion of democratic citizenship. Will Cuba’s path resemble the roads taken in South America, where the democratic transition from military rule proved particularly robust and where national leaders promoted LGBT human rights at home and…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…diana University (Bloomington) Walter E. Fluker, PhD, Professor Emeritus Ethical Leadership, Boston University School of Theology Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, Contingent Faculty, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University Tamura Lomax, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan State University Brian Bantum, PhD, Neil F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Brittney Cooper, PhD, Associate…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ontract establishes the moral and political superiority of whites over nonwhites. It is this racial contract that sacrifices the equality, freedoms and often the very lives of Black people and others who are nonwhite. The police are the enforcers and representatives of the racial contract. Trevor Noah, comedian and host of The Daily Show has breathed new life into this idea. The racial contract allows Noah to connect Amy Cooper calling the police…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…everything; that is their virtue. Scientists are willing to say almost anything—which is not quite as virtuous. The latest scientific salvo fired across the bow of religion concerns, of all things, the size of the religious brain. Here’s the storyline as reported in the media: “Study suggests ‘born again’ believers have smaller brains” (USA Today) “Study suggests ‘born again’ believers have smaller brains” (Beliefnet) “Born-again Chri…

Do iPads Cause Religious Experiences?

By Andrew Aghapour

…activated specific parts of Brooks’ brain, and whether this might say something about his psychological devotion to the brand. The result: Brooks’ brain showed similar patterns of activity when viewing Apple products as did religious practitioners who were shown religious imagery. According to Dr. Gemma Calvert, the expert who led the experiment, it seems that technology brands “exploit the brain areas that have evolved to process religion.” This…