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Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…n can be motivated as much by fear as by a sense of privilege—the feeling that what applies to my child is, somehow, different from what applies to everyone else’s. There’s a logic to this idea that’s deeply appealing (particularly, Biss argues, for the educated, wealthier parents who form one of the key anti-vaxxer demographics). The heroes of our fictions are defined by their exceptional characteristics, and by their exceptional invulnerability….

The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…ause I did have Iranian Jewish parents and all the rules and restrictions that came along with that heritage. As cool and open-minded as my parents were, they were still Iranian immigrants who held on to traditional beliefs. How could I explain to my peers that I couldn’t go out on a Friday night because I had Sabbath dinner or that the fabric and makeup of my family was just different than theirs? Jerry Garcia (right) and keyboardist Vince Welnic…

James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…ism as these grave threats to the family. He would dismiss domestic abuse—that’s something that appears in later of his books. He would sometimes accuse women of faking it, just to get attention, that sort of thing. Even where he believed abuse was real, he never really thought of it as a good reason for divorce. Everybody had to stay in their marriage. And when he, when he ended up founding Focus on the Family he really gave all of those ideas th…

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ngly having pastoral care moments where anger is the predominant emotion. What we discovered is that there were no theological or ecclesiastical resources to deal with anger in terms of righteous indignation; to deal with a wrong that one felt the need to right.* Part of our frustration wasn’t just fueled by the actual events themselves, but by the ways in which we felt part of generation that was in-between; caught in the middle of traditions tha…

“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace

By Franklin Strong

…equitable balance; that would be grotesque,” he writes. “But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at that down there. Look at that.” Wimbledon that year was a religious experience, Wallace says, a kind of grace, an experience of another, better world. And the thing about grace is that it’s inherently good; it’s never inappropriate, even when it sp…

Fellow Mainline Christians: Are We Completely Useless?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…had similar results. But what about the mainline Protestants? Yeah, about that. For every 100 churches that responded to white-sounding names, only 89 responded to black names. 86 responded to Latina/o names. And an abysmal 72 responded to Asian names. Also, mainliners’ replies to non-white-sounding names tended to be terser and less inviting than our replies to white-sounding names. My people, listen. There is no sense in which this is okay. Ther…

Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…e Union board members considered him a “crazy bigot” who made the tin foil hat charge that the board had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. At the conference, a Center for Security Policy employee handed out a flyer that described shari’ah as “a supremacist program that justifies the destruction of Christian churches and parishioners” and “the replacement of our constitutional republic. . . .with a theocratic Islamic caliphate governing a…

Praise the Lard This Holiday Season

By Becky Garrison

…of ex-Christians because in his estimation, “We do not have commandments that leave anyone out, and we do not judge, we do provoke questions, mock ourselves and our strange belief and others. But we leave judgement to the courts. We may not agree with every court decision, but we are always looking for proof.” He adds that the reaction he gets from Christians about the UCB depends on the Christian. “There are good Christians and bad Christians, a…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…f purely individual achievement. This is the dream of a just commonwealth that animated what historians call the “long 19th century,” a time when the prerogatives and pretensions of the wealthy were aggressively and repeatedly challenged by self-respecting farmers, by small business owners threatened by the monopolists, and by the savagely exploited people who toiled for endless hours in mines and mills and railways. It is a millenarian dream whos…

Christian Inmate Suing Indiana to Recognize Religion

By Daniel Silliman

…rn Orthodox Christianity. According to court documents, Mr. Glenn alleges that the defendants have violated his First Amendment and (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act) rights by failing to have his Eastern Orthodox religion placed in the IDOC Handbook of Religious Belief and Practices (the ‘Handbook’). He also alleges that he has been denied access to Eastern Orthodox services, communion, and confession, and to other religious i…