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In OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative

By Joseph Laycock

…shattering it, the Satanic Temple released a statement condemning the destruction. Headlines initially described Reed as a Satanist, but he has now been identified as someone who suffers from severe mental illness. He’d actually declared his intention to go to Bible college in a recent Facebook post. The October 30 decapitation also occurred one month after Alton Nolen, a convert to Islam, decapitated a co-worker in Moore, Oklahoma. Before conver…

Hobby Lobby, Bill Gothard, and the Submission of Women

By Sarah Posner

…of perfecting the goal God has for every one of us.” Vyckie Garrison, who runs the website No Longer Quivering, “a gathering place for women escaping and recovering from spiritual abuse,” told me that she and her now ex-husband, although they lacked the money to attend Gothard’s seminars, followed his teachings through his homeschool curricula. She said her husband had believed, based on Gothard’s teachings, that he was responsible for his family…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…de devices—all of which were common and widely used in the early Christian world-to frustrate conception. The first formal theological condemnation of contraception was made by St. Augustine in the early 400s, when he declared that it is “a procreative purpose which makes good an act in which lust is present” and that married people who contracept “are not married.” It was a proclamation that would guide Catholic thinking about contraception for t…

The Washington Post’s Marriage Counselor

By Sarah Posner

…its website.” Let’s remember, of course, that editors, not writers, create headlines. But the content of the piece isn’t much better. Wilcox and Wilson claim that women and children are “safer in married homes,” that married men “behave better,” that women who are married tend to live in “safer neighborhoods” — you get the idea. Why bother addressing misogyny when marriage will fix sexual violence? In fairness, Wilcox and Wilson admit that “marria…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…any? Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, something else, or nothing in particular?” Pews researchers said they believe, “by explicitly offering respondents the chance to identify as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular,’ the Religious Landscape Study question may make it easier for marginally religious people who once thought of themselve…

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…he name of Christianity.” He also observed that this denial “collapses the world into ‘true Christian’ (good) and ‘not true Christian’ (bad), so that anyone who is not Christian is lumped into the ‘bad’ category,” adding that this “flattens Christianity and denies the diversity that is inherent within Christianity.” Further, Price maintains, “When this happens, because of the power and status of (white) Christians, the diversity of others’ traditi…

Good News for Jewish Justice

By Ruth Messinger

…who want to act as “Jewish global citizens” in pursuing justice around the world. As Pew notes, most American Jews are finding meaning as Jews outside of Jewish institutions. Therefore, we need to listen carefully to the innovative ways in which most Jews are experiencing Jewishness today. From the yearning I witness among American Jews to play a role as Jews in “repairing the world,” I believe that supporters of global justice are tapping into th…

Forget the “God Gap,” the “Union Gap” is Bad News for Republicans

By Daniel Schultz

…, but I can’t help seeing this as bad news for the Republicans in the long run. It’s true that unions are considerably smaller than the evangelical population—about 11% of working Americans, compared to roughly 20-25% of the population that is evangelical—but as we know, religious practice is on the decline in the US*, and boy, it sure looks like organized labor has been mightily energized by the events of the past couple of weeks. What’s more, th…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…ings, so as to appear a seamless part of the school day. And finally, Good News Clubs instructors tell kids attending the clubs to recruit their peers at school. It turns out that Encinitas public elementary schools that sparked the national outcry over yoga stretching are rife with Good News Clubs: all nine public elementary schools in the district have a club, reported Assistant Superintendent Miyashiro. And their presence has been made possible…

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

…consistently upheld the DOE’s policy—until 2001. The Supreme Court’s 2001 ruling in Good News Club v. Milford Central School changed everything, opening up new possibilities for the Bronx Household of Faith to challenge the City’s policy, and the court proceedings began anew. The Good News Club decision created a new legal theory for opponents of church-state separation. The Court held that religion is nothing but speech from a certain point of v…