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Arguing Liberally: Rift in Religious Coalitions Goes Public

By Mark Silk

…up. Once, the mainline was a robust force on the religious landscape with numbers comparable to Catholicism and evangelicalism. Now, according to the latest American Religious Identification Survey, it has shrunk to just 12 percent of the adult population, and that population is significantly older than the other major religious streams. For all that, the prophets are there to serve their usual purpose—chiding and poking and raising hell. On Mond…

Religious Practices on Trial in Arizona: The Problem With “Experts”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…eone who did “Indian sweats” and presto and voilà, Ray is taking people on spiritual retreats at 10K a head and then people start dying. So, experts have to be brought in to figure out what happened. No Indians mind you, just experts. And the truth is, we don’t want to be experts. Why? Because we know there is no such thing as Indians, redskins, warriors, braves, chiefs, or savages. Those are sports teams and ah, therein lies the rub. Ray sold thi…

Obama Unites Right and Left—In Fear

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…re the Left’s values, or lack thereof, are the rule of the day. Again, the numbers disprove his assertions. Most Americans emphatically do want to live in a world of “Left” values. A Pew Research poll on political value trends from 1987 to 2007 shows growing support for government programs for the needy, shrinking support for “old fashioned values about family and marriage,” and diminishing feelings of religious intensity. I don’t suppose I should…

Mosques and Welcoming LGBT People

By Hussein Rashid

…how large the community of gay Muslims is. While they are not out in large numbers yet, they will be. I think we need to start making the decision now, that a Muslim cannot judge another Muslim’s faith. I think we need to start instilling a sense of equality and fairness to all people now. If our mosques will be open and welcoming to non-Muslims, and even atheists, we cannot be anything but welcoming to anyone who identifies as Muslim. I do not wa…

Mega-Church and State Separation? Not in an Election Year

By Daniel Schultz

…debate; it carries a lot more cultural influence than, say, a coalition of 100 congregations of 200 members each. And since, as pointed out earlier, larger churches contain a higher proportion of people with high incomes, they are even more likely to attract the attention of politicians. In this fashion, mega-churches can both reflect the loosening of religious ties and prompt the rise of some churches’ social and political influence. Small churc…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…s can have? I think many people have the intuition that there is something spiritual to childhood. One of the things we foreclose when we cut animals out of this picture is the ability to acknowledge our own deep intuitions that, say, my four-year-old is in touch with something that’s not just material, but is something we’d want to call religious. So excluding animals from religion amounts to a kind of intellectual gerrymandering? Yeah, I think t…

Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…o retain young people raised in their traditions, contributing significant numbers to the ranks of the unaffiliated. The data on Nones also tell us that most of them come from Christian traditions, and most retain reasonably theistic beliefs. My own research with Nones certainly illustrates that a version of progressive Christianity highlighting God’s equal and unconditional love for all and social justice as prophetic action remains a significant…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…ed or witnessed abuse of Palestinians. In response, B’Tselem said that the numbers are shocking, but not surprising. The organization commends the military for initiating the survey, but states that physical and verbal abuse of Palestinians by soldiers, particularly at checkpoints, has long become routine. In spite of official condemnations, the military does not do enough to ensure accountability and to deter soldiers from engaging in such behavi…

New Study: Jews More “Spiritual” Less Ancestral

By Benjamin Weiner

…t they had to lead by following, or be left behind. If nothing else, this “spirituality” survey indicates that Jews are, now more than ever, Americans. The authors do spend some time interrogating the term “spirituality” itself, and conclude that it has something to do with a sense of transcendence—awareness of a power greater than one’s self—and an intimation of holistic meaning and values. They also point out that until quite recently Jews were…

The Uneasy Coexistence of the Cairo Rumor Mill with Muslim Principle of Isnad

By H.A. Hellyer

…sion continues. As the situation unfolds in Cairo, we see that significant numbers (if not compared to their opposition) of pro-Mubarak supporters have come out onto the street. All sorts of rumors abound about them, as well as about the anti-Mubarak supporters – and it’s hard to sift through it all. There are rather more rumors about the pro-Mubarak supporters being paid to go protest, by pro-Mubarak businessmen, although similar stories abound a…