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HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…was merely relabeled creationism. Klinghoffer wrote in his column: While barbarism has been going on for as long as there have been human beings, there was something different about the 20th century. The world had never seen anything quite like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. And it was not only a matter of the technology available to them. Treating people as vermin to be exterminated was a new thing under the sun. Eugenics programs in United St…

Pope Francis Dithering About Women, Skittish About Cops

By Mary E. Hunt

…e lack of theological imagination is evident. There are some improvements particularly in those who must report abuse, in how whistleblowers will be safeguarded, in shortened timelines for handling cases. But the bottom line remains the same: church leaders will police their own. Apparently Francis and his advisors missed the multiple memos from survivors of clergy sexual abuse who insist that only referring cases to lawful civil authorities will…

TV’s Favorite Family Dumps Religion

By Bron Taylor

…ore conventionally acceptable to mock religion? Does nature religion hold particular appeal for post-theists, or agnostics? Will we see in our popular media more expressions of nature spirituality, going forward? I would not argue that golfing should be understood as a new nature religion. I do think, however, that this Modern Family episode reflects a slowly unfolding quasi-secular trend in America, where increasing numbers of people consider our…

Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise

By Josiah Daniels

…macist violence. This reality has so traumatized Black Americans that many are arming up. Dissimilar to the mob that rushed the Capitol, Black Americans have been legitimately traumatized by the state treading on their right to jog, to play at the park—to exist. In response, many are arming themselves and grouping up with like-minded individuals. Philip Smith is the founder and president of one of these groups, the National African American Gun As…

When Children’s Literature is Not Defined by “Innocence”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ney and included a huge swath of twentieth-century children’s literature, particularly classics like Little House on the Prairie, which truly needs more analysis from the vantage point of religious studies. Perhaps that will be a different book. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? When I tell people about my book, they expect it to be prescriptive: a tome in which I tell people what to read to children, or what not to rea…

Is the Pope Francis Media Honeymoon Over?

By Sarah Posner

…broken homes and the growth in gay couples rearing children. He noted in particular the case “of a very sad little girl” he knew of who confessed that her mother’s girlfriend “doesn’t like me.” After citing the example of that lesbian couple he seemed to warn against being quick to condemn: “How can we proclaim Christ to a generation that is changing? We must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to them.” And that was quickly inte…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s in Baghdad. December 10 was proclaimed a public holiday, and a military parade marched down the main streets. But that was about it. The event was scarcely reported elsewhere. In the New York Times the report about the event was a small item obscured by more salacious reports related to Trump-dominated domestic politics. ISIS was over. But no one seemed to notice. Perhaps that’s because few people are persuaded that ISIS is really over. They kno…

“I Think the White Evangelical Church is Dead”: Dr. Russell Jeung on ‘Guilt’ vs. ‘Shame’ and Decolonizing Asian-American Christianity

By Deborah Jian Lee

…e conservative white-centric Christian framework. The journeys people take are varied, nuanced and complicated. In your research of Asian Americans you’re finding that many, including evangelicals, are turning to Asian traditions. What does that look like? For some people it can be abrupt—this is a whole new way of doing things—and for others, it can be a smooth transition that occurs little by little. Maybe in prayer, they shift to silent prayer,…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…it very close to home, forcing Muslims like myself (I was twelve when the war started) to confront an assumed compatibility of the West and Islam. Where Do White Muslims Go? As Yugoslavia dissolved, the most diverse of its constituent republics fractured along religious lines. The Catholic Bosnians identified as Croats, the Orthodox Bosnians as Serbs, and the Muslim Bosnians didn’t know where to go (otherwise, religion aside, Serbs, Bosnians, a…

Gospel and Country Legend Charlie Louvin dies at 83

By Lauri Lebo

…ularity of Americana, becoming the idol of such musicians as Jeff Tweedy, Marty Stuart and Elvis Costello, all of whom recorded with him. In 2001, the Louvin Brothers were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Paste Magazine has a great profile here. I got to see Charlie Louvin in 2006 in a little bar in Nashville. While his voice was a little shaky, the man could still harmonize beautifully. I knew at the time I was witnessing a piece of…