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Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…mes to my parents’ home and has meals with us. They were with us this past Thanksgiving, a few months ago. So you’re participating in the sort of experiences you were looking at as an ethnographer. Yes, but not by choice. The avenue of participation has been as a dutiful daughter. Well, ancestry is a family affair, right? There you go. Going back to this event in Atlanta, how did people seem to react to the reveal of Martin Luther King III’s ances…

The Creepy Surveillance of Elf on a Shelf

By Kelly J. Baker

…rpose of monitoring children. Yes, this might ensure good behavior between Thanksgiving and Christmas (child psychologists worry about what happens when parents farm out discipline to Santa). More importantly, these elves teach children that they should expect to be watched even in their own homes. This expectedness of being watched disconcerts me. Surveillance is now a part of childhood with video cameras everywhere; monitoring every action in fe…

A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine

By Cristina Rosetti

…expressing that the Brigham Young conspiracy would make a great movie. Well, they’re in luck. Phil Davis and the Doctrine of Christ anticipate a movie premier, The Return of Joseph Smith, on April 15 at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, UT. The movie offers an alternate history to the LDS succession era, and answers people’s deepest questions as they seek meaning in an uncertain world….

“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…porting the House bill that limits Syrian refugees (passed the week before Thanksgiving), Marco Rubio said: “We can’t allow anyone in this country that we can’t vet.” (Refugees currently undergo a vetting process including interagency screenings, biometric checks, forensic documents testing, medical screenings, and in-person interviews in a process that takes 18-24 months. If one wanted to harm the U.S., it would be far easier to come as a tourist…

Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rt of okay to be gay in our family, but please don’t bring your partner to Thanksgiving, because Uncle Max couldn’t handle that, and for God’s sake stop posting all those pictures of you and your partner to Instagram I mean why do you have to just throw your gayness in everyone’s face all the time? Samuel Johnson maintained that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and on the internet these days you often find an unattributed variation in…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…group up in Utica, where we have huge immigrant populations, and we had a Thanksgiving service that was about bread. Everybody brought bread from their background, and we all sat around and talked about bread for half an hour: here’s my mother’s recipe, here’s the kind of things we used back home in Bosnia, or back home in Burma. You don’t have to feel like I’m gonna get it right or wrong, I’m going say something bad about God, I’m gonna say some…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…e more product. It’s a hideous theological model—the community gathered in thanksgiving and not the presence of a priest constitutes Eucharist—and a futile struggle for the Roman model. Another issue that arose was the ordination of women as deacons. By all accounts, women already do the greatest share of the pastoral work in the region. They realize that unless the ecclesiology is flattened out from a pyramid to interlocking circles with commensu…

The Other Puritan Dinner Party

By Joanna Brooks

…irit they found through their faith, no matter how the human institutions of religion closed in on them. I’m sure that if I were lucky enough to share a Thanksgiving dinner table with Anne Hutchinson, we’d have a riotously good time….

Gingrich’s Anti-Secularism Greatest Hits

By Sarah Posner

…on of church and state was most recently on display at the FAMiLY Leader’s Thanksgiving Family Forum, where the now-frontrunner told the Iowa church audience, “A country that has been now since 1963 relentlessly in the courts driving God out of public life shouldn’t be surprised at all the problems we have.” He was referring, of course, to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions holding officially sanctioned prayer and Bible reading in public schools unc…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…n,” and likens student loan reform to “stage-three cancer.” Akin said that Thanksgiving should be remembered as a day to renounce “unbiblical” socialism and that the U.S. should use the Pilgrim society as a model because the Pilgrims used the Bible as a “blueprint” for economic, educational, and government policies. None of those statements were enough to cause the GOP to abandon him. During his presidential campaign, Rick Santorum said rape survi…