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

By Andrea R. Jain

…ual diversity, environmental sustainability, scientific inquiry and historical-critical commentary, and a public space that guarantees both freedom of and from religion. Hence, I am certain the number of self-proclaimed “spiritual but not religious” people at the marches on January 21st was significant. But, more importantly, I wonder what those spiritual people will do now to resist the oppressive policies and efforts of the Trump administration?…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…h 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 affiliation was malleable for the first century of its existence, since World War II, Mormonism has been closely aligned with the Republican right. Several promi…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…ment and is not changeable.” The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, along with numerous other professional organizations, have adopted similar stances. But still young people, including those that frequent the clinic run by Michelle Bachmann’s husband, are encouraged to seek deliverance from their condition. The emerging acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage, claim many evangelical leaders, reflects the mor…

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…ers protesting at the clinic where she was an escort reported her to the local Cardinal. As a result, she was rebuked by her order in 2009, and decided not to continue her work as an escort. Her activism, however, continues unabated, including recently organizing an event, “Contraception Is Not Controversial” in Chicago with Democratic Representatives Mike Quigley and Jan Schakowsky. The doctor said she is worried about the increasing number of re…

The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Sarah Sentilles

…d, fashion magazines are seldom known for their courageous stands, but the caption could have said any number of things. The Woman Against Rape or The Woman Who Kicks Ass or The Woman Who Fights Back—I’d even settle for A Girl Who Fights Back. But nipple piercing? Really? When there’s all that other material? Which sums up the problem with Dragon Tattoo, the movie: not only does it participate in the sexualization of the violence it seems to resis…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…ing the words of some old, white, dead European men,” said Peggy Hagen, sarcastically emphasizing the last five words to ensure that her disdain for feminism was registered. Hagen, the organizer of Friday’s Stand Up for Religious Freedom rally held outside Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Ellicott City, Maryland constituent office, proceeded to read from the Declaration of Independence, using a small walkie-talkie as a makeshift bullhorn. “Our lib…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

The most dispiriting number to come out of North Carolina today was the huge margin of victory for a constitutional amendment that, as Candace has noted, will not only forbid same-sex couples from getting married, but will strip couples of any legal protections that might have been offered through domestic partnerships or civil unions. The broad wording of the amendment is more evidence that anti-gay advocates are lying when they say they’re only…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…daughter of a fairly well-to-do Baltimore family—raised in part by an African-American domestic worker—also understood the struggle for identity did not occur only among the marginalized, though the struggle became starkly manifest there. Like James Baldwin, one of her primary influences, she knew that victimizing groups were also their own victims, imperiled by the injustices they perpetuated and from which they benefited, consciously and uncons…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…o you feel about the cover? Since the book is about the ways in which Americans physically and visually encounter the Ten Commandments, the cover was key to the success, and the integrity, of the enterprise. I had hoped for a graphic design that would signal to the casual reader that what was inside was not what she might expect from a book about these age-old biblical passages: an edgy cover that might feature, say, Keith Haring’s stridently colo…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

While the Catholic bishops are ramping up their political campaign to portray marriage equality and requirements that insurance coverage include contraception (among other topics) as dire threats to religious liberty, some priests and parishes are beginning to resist publicly. In Pittsburgh, four priests met with Bishop David Zubik to tell him that his rhetoric—Zubik accused the Obama administration of telling Catholics “To Hell with you!”—was an…