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ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…e authority of its Iraqi branch and instead pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda central, while the Iraqi branch, never very comfortable with Bin Laden’s less murderous savagery then declared itself independent. They called themselves the Islamic State in Iraq, and subsequently the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. So they’re ISIS, right? Well, not so fast. ISI…S? The group’s Arabic name is ad-Dawlah al-Islamiyya fi’l Iraq wa ash-Sham, or the Islamic Sta…

Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

By Sarah Posner

…fs of certain employers. Last year he blamed “Uncle Sugar” for handing out free contraceptives to women who “cannot control their libido or their reproductive system.” Huckabee announced his anachronistic candidacy just as a video about access to contraception–and religious efforts to block it–has gone viral. In this Comedy Central send-up, a satirical birth control pill commercial, comedian Amy Schumer tries to get a one-month prescription filled…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…Thomas Jefferson), martyrs (Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr.), and central shared beliefs (freedom, equality, a divine purpose for the nation). Over the years, scholars have debated this idea of an American civil religion. Is it actually a religion or is it just similar to a religion? Should more traditional religions like Judaism and Christianity see a national civil religion as a rival, or can they be combined? Good questions. This relat…

Atheists Who Don’t Like “Under God” Can Leave

By Rob Shryock

…aps the most popular stereotype about atheists: it’s the “Muslims hate our freedom” of atheist-bashing. For example, just a day prior to The Five segment, Fox and Friends’s Steve Doocy questioned the patriotism of the family that brought the case in Massachusetts. There’s a central irony to all this: the idea that atheists are unpatriotic appeared around the same time “under God” entered the Pledge of Allegiance. Originally, adding “under God” to…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…m scripture (and I’m not the only one who has concluded this) is that very central to God’s purposes in marriage is to give people a means of grace to help them grow into the image of Jesus’ self-giving love. Marriage is this arena where we can totally give ourselves to another person in body, spirit, and life and commitment and grow in that total gift of self which winds up being an image of Jesus’ total gift of himself for us. Critics say that m…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…tle that is actually stable about them over time, even as they continue to promote the eternality of their claims. Many have also noted this trend, and usually they describe these changes as smaller or peripheral in light of a rigidly maintained core. Others have simply called it hypocrisy. Neither one of these explanations was satisfying to me, however, as they did not seem to acknowledge the gravity of the shifts that are often taking place, nor…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…at birth, and even though you don’t claim to be on The Daily Show, Comedy Central and Stewart et al could take you to court and get you to stop using that name to promote your comedy, because doing so harms him by confusing people about who is performing what comedy. Another is that the term Mormon has already been used to promote professional endeavors. In the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, a race car driver from Utah named Ab Jenkins set records for spe…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…“truth” is thus everywhere assailed, but we still demand that it remain a central category (if not for politics as such, then for our affective experience of the political). This partly explains the zeal for evidence, for observability and substance. But when “religion” enters the swirling tide of words and allegations, it complicates things. On the one hand, “religion” has played a role in two hidebound discourses: we must use it to steer the sh…

What do Crystal Meth and Contraception Have In Common?

By Kara Loewentheil

…itating communion with the divine. And in a religion like Wicca, without a central authority (like the Pope, for instance), how do we determine that the use of meth is not in fact central to this particular Wiccan’s religious exercise? I’m not suggesting we can’t determine that, but I am suggesting that if we think that’s an easy question we should be more cautious about the willingness thus far of courts to throw up their hands and refuse to prob…

Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)

By Eric C. Miller

…family at the center of their political agenda. This agenda—defending and promoting family values—resonated with evangelical Christians because it spoke to two of their central convictions. First, evangelicals believed that gender was part of the created order, that men and women were created by God to fulfill different roles. In traditional families, men provided and protected, while women bore, reared and nurtured children. Movements that viewe…