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“I ‘Came Out’ For Marriage Equality”: An Anti-Gay Activist Changes His Mind

By Welton Gaddy

…ay not be a perfect reproduction of the above audio —ed.] One of the most frustrating things about today’s political rhetoric is the entrenched nature of those who argue any side of an issue. Political leaders and the media provide a bounty of messages to support a position, and it is profoundly easy to consume only opinions one already agrees with. There are times that it feels as if we are at a permanent stalemate regarding some of the biggest…

January 6 protester holds giant image of White Jesus in a Make America Great Again cap.

America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…n nationalism.” While identity has, of course, always been central to U.S. politics—particularly on the Right—what’s different today is not only the sharp decline in the White Christian majority, but the widespread belief among those who remain that they are persecuted and that their entire way of life is threatened by forces of immigration and social progressivism. As these Christian nationalists scapegoat minorities for the country’s ills, the c…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t even gotten a preliminary reading yet.) We thought we’d have to sue Trump today. But it turned out the order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. — ACLU National (@ACLU) May 4, 2017 Hobby Lobby Still Doesn’t Have to Pay for Your Birth Control (Or Pap Smears or Mammograms…) The order’s section addressing the Affordable Care Act’s so-called preventive care mandate is “another example of a lot of fluff and no su…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…there: In 1967, there were perhaps fewer than 200 mosques in the country. Today, there are likely more than 2,000. In 1967, the single largest Muslim organization in the United States was probably Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam, a group that was not accepted as legitimately Muslim by many Sunni and Shi‘a religious authorities. Today, the sectarian profile of Muslim America roughly mirrors that of the rest of the Muslim world. The majority of M…

Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

By Robert M. Geraci

…lity, but a dive into progressive dreams about what the world ought to be. Today’s media marketplace was constructed on a scaffold of adventures, role-played in the depths of the night, fueled by pizza, soda, and dreams. Today’s videogames are the highest grossing entertainment medium in the world, and they are the direct descendants of D&D. These digital worlds populated by monsters and magic were made possible by The Monster Manual. That volume,…

Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…at transcends the flat ethnicity paradigm and gets the deeper and more persistent question of religion and moral bearings: How does the most religiously devout candidate in recent memory reconcile a life of religious commitment with a values-neutral approach to work, livelihood, and the marketplace? Why does religion play an outsized role in the politics of gay marriage and contraception but apparently has no say when it comes to big-ticket items…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…pi Methodist, December 1931* The Great Recovery is a grassroots movement spread by people who are tired of looking to Washington for answers. The truth is that the government can’t fix this economy. It’ll be restored one family at a time, as each of us takes a stand to return to God and grandma’s way of handling money. —from Dave Ramsey’s The Great Recovery website The Great Recovery for an economy stalled with lingering high unemployment and stag…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…who remember and revere traditional Catholic social teaching (especially Rerum Novarum and Laborem Exercens, pro-union encyclicals issued by Popes Leo XIII and John Paul II respectively). These staunch Catholic friends of labor are usually joined by some liberal Jews and liberal Protestants. But moderate and evangelical Protestants? Among the white ones, not so much. White evangelicals have even been known to create their own entities (e.g., the C…

A Somewhat Cynical Take On The Future And Soul Of Evangelicalism

By Daniel Schultz

…become tainted by its association with divisive politics under President Trump. It runs Monday and Tuesday. Well, I don’t know why they would be afraid of being associated with Trump and all he stands for, other than that 81% of white evangelicals voted for the dude, or 61% percent of them still support him (admittedly down from 78% two months into his problematic spell in the nation’s capital), or that 37% of them said they were more likely to v…

Can the “Spiritual Left” Make the Change They Wish to See?

By Arielle Levites

…ction results, it’s not surprising that they emphasized staying calm and spreading love, as opposed to say, getting angry and running for local office. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Spiritual Americans aren’t blind or uncaring about the problems in the world. But they believe that an important way, and perhaps even the most effective way, to contribute to a better world is through their own spi…