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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…salaries of Christian ministers. (In contrast, and much to its credit, the New York State Senate passed a Religious Freedom Day resolution that commemorates the Virginia Statute and its general purpose and historical significance.) Many of those promoting versions of the Project Blitz resolution would no doubt disagree with the misuse of religious freedom to steer the nation toward Christian dominion. But that doesn’t change the fact that some are…

Is Yoga Hindu?

By Roman Palitsky

…t. Even University of Colorado professor Lorelai Biernacki is cited by the New York Times, attributing not only yoga but meditation itself to Hinduism. Yoga’s Birth Certificate(s) Unfortunately Shukla’s claim falls apart under scrutiny. While the Take Yoga Back movement positions itself against the secularization and de-Hinduization of yoga, it can also be seen as an answer to one of the most fruitful decades in yoga research to date. A corpus of…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…an threat of “radical Islam” and shari’ah law. King lashed out against the New York Times this week over the paper’s recent editorial, which called King’s “sweeping slur on Muslim citizens” “unacceptable.” “I have more contempt for The New York Times than anything or anyone I can think of,” King said this week. (Remember, the Republicans love the Constitution! Especially the First Amendment!) But while King’s planned hearings on the “radicalizati…

“LGBT People Have a Lot to Teach Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…names of those for whom prayers are being offered) flicker in the nave of New York City’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an evensong service in December 2014. Photo by Cathleen Falsani. It’s not about trying to come up with some new, hip way (like fog machines) to get the young kids to come to church. It’s not about trying to make Christianity hip or put coffee shops in the lobby. That’s fine but I don’t think that’s what makes…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…or scold, but he is more like Jerry Falwell with a badge. What starts as a New York voluntary society, with roots in the YMCA, grows into a federally sponsored vice-busting organization. Craddock was, in some ways, small fry in Comstock’s larger campaign, but his power to destroy her is emblematic of his legal and civic clout. It is also common to overestimate the extent of religious freedom in American culture. Craddock gained no traction whatsoe…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…cendant since 1687 had been overthrown by a Quaker in African forests. The New York Times’s headline the following day was “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS – EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS.” At a press conference held at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C. on April 10th, a consortium of scientists working on a collaborative project called the Event Horizon Telescope presented the first photograph of another enigmatic cosmological phenomen…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ial networks lead to actions is illustrated by the recent Saipov attack in New York City. Saipov was Muslim of Uzbek ancestry, but had lived in the United States since 2010 and did not appear to have any direct contact with the ISIS organization. He did talk with other Uzbek Muslims about religious and political matters, it appears, and he likely had connections with the ISIS online community, the baqiyah, through Twitter and Telegram. He likely r…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [For a survey of these and other Islam-related elect…

Abdul-Rauf’s Latest Park51 Fail

By Hussein Rashid

…ence. In addition, they have controlled their messaging, and the view from New York was that they were making progress in repairing broken relationships. All of this work went on while Abdul-Rauf was silent. Now he starts making statements on something over which he has no control, but over which he exercises a disproportionate impact on in public discourse. He does not own the property, he is on the Board of Directors. The Park51 team tried to gi…

Another Bush Comes Out for Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rbara Bush, proclaims herself “a New Yorker for marriage equality.” As the New York Times reports, in the video Ms. Bush says, “New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love.” The 29-year-old Ms. Bush, who lives in Manhattan, ends the video by asking others in the state to “join us.” Over at Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link, blogger Jenny Tyree isn’t surprised at Ms. Bush and Ms. M…