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There is Another Reason Trump Refuses to Concede the Election

By Chad Bauman

…evaporating into the ether last Wednesday, White-Cain broadcasted a prayer service in which she spoke in tongues, called on God to discharge angels from Africa to aid the president’s reelection, and rap-prophesied that she could hear “victory, victory, victory, victory in the quarters of heaven.” What was she doing? Exercising positive confession on behalf of the president and the large percentage of conservative Christians who support him. (When…

The University of Vermont Might Be Done With Religion, But Religion Isn’t Done With Us

By Megan Goodwin

…has taught us anything, it’s that people need to know more about religion. Americans certainly do. Public schools in the U.S. don’t offer religious literacy courses, which means most Americans are shockingly ignorant about religion. Even if we weren’t dumb bunnies (as my ninth grade algebra teacher Sister Gertrude would have said), the U.S. Constitution enshrines specific protections for religion that it does not afford any other subject in, say,…

For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

By Lynne Gerber

…rightward turn is the way that AIDS and Covid revealed the often implicit American political calculation of whose lives are valued. The contrast between the anti-gay backlash in the first years of AIDS and the backlash against people of color evident in both epidemics is “helping me to understand that the original lie of America is this white superiority and all the kinds of supremacy that allows some people to think that other people don’t matte…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…churches in the paper around that time, about this new way of worship that Americans were flocking towards. But I had never seen one. I had seen these small businesses and knew about them, but had never seen these megachurches, since I live in an urban environment, and they’re mostly in exurban or suburban environments. That’s when I started going to them and photographing them. It was a companion project to the small businesses project since they…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…cluding the history we just talked about. And yes, this idea of protecting American innocence is really at the core of it. And you know there’s a great irony here. For a people who talk so much about sin and guilt, they simultaneously have this external insistence on their innocence. Heresy is a word that comes to mind. Let’s try to end on a more positive note if we can. The egalitarian current in American religion seems to be doing okay, even gat…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ian and gay pairs to adopt children as a couple.” Israel: Profile of trans servicemember In a week in which the US Defense Department said it is reversing a ban on transgender servicemembers, Karen Ocamb profiles the first openly transgender officer in the Israel Defense Forces. France: Pride parade cut in half due to security concerns Citing security concerns, police have cut in half the length of the Paris pride parade scheduled for Saturday, Ju…

How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

…ce him and maybe even harm him. Last month, Carson claimed he needs Secret Service protection because “I’m in great danger because I challenge the secular progressive movement to the very core.” Carson also appears to see himself as a prophet warning of the subterfuge used by “secular progressives.” As is evident if you watch the exchange with Camerota, or Carson’s hectoring news conference yesterday, questioning him is trying to “change the subje…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…, while fewer (60%) say the same of the American Bishops. 4) Few religious Americans support service refusals to gay and lesbian people on religious grounds… Nearly six in ten (58%) Americans—including 53% of Christians—oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse products or services to gay and lesbian people, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. On the other hand, roughly one-third (36%) of the public support such a policy. Maj…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…t out is what you will get back. So, the golden rule may still receive lip service, but it is too expensive to practice, according to the rich nations of the world. What about reparations or repentance? Karmic thinking alerts us that it is too expensive not to practice repentance and repair. Everything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection be…

A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

By Robert M. Geraci and Nat Recine

…rk moral decisions the players make, with their own loyalty (and continued service) dependent upon each player’s choices. It is common for people to treat computers as though they were people, and this is clearly magnified in the accountability systems of SWTOR’s companions. The computer controls the companions—but they accompany the players, fight with them, and respond to the decisions that the players make. The companions will like or dislike p…