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10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…or slight, suburbanite women, but also big burly men. 7. The “Yoga Tax” In Washington D. C., yoga was newly subjected to a tax. Though the tax has been popularly referred to as the “yoga tax,” the Office of Tax and Revenue’s extension actually applies to any health club business, defined as “a fitness club, fitness center, or gym the purpose of which is physical exercise.” As a part of a larger movement across the country opposing government regul…

Tony Perkins Puts Foot Down After Republican Bondage Spending

By Mark Bergen

…o me the RNC is completely tone-deaf to the values and concerns of a large number of people they are seeking financial support from,” Perkins writes. If funds stopped poring in from a bloc of social conservatives, the beleaguered RNC would suffer a substantial political hit. Reportedly, the upcoming newsletter also includes Perkins’ disdain for the RNC’s partnership with Ted Olson, the former Solicitor General under George W. Bush. Olson is curren…

Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

By Nick Street

…maintain public health standards in the handling of food), this religious-cultural practice has ritual elements that one ought to respect, in the very same way most of us respect Judeo-Christian religious practice. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, DC. Among his recent work is the co-edited special issue of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society on the topic of “Retheori…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…s done to address sexual abuse within SBC churches.” And, according to the Washington Post: Evidence in the report suggests leaders also lied to Southern Baptists over whether they could maintain a database of offenders to prevent more abuse when top leaders were secretly keeping a private list for years. As the report says, “the primary focus was on avoiding the risk of legal liability, sometimes to the exclusion of all other considerations.” Bri…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ames’ Gang”: “Word was brought to the Fifth Police Station to-night that a number of boys were using the Concord-street School-house for some unknown purpose, and a posse of officers was sent to investigate. The gang scattered at the approach of the police, and in their flight on drew a revolver and fired at Officer Rowan, without effect, however. William Nangle, age 14, and Sidney Duncan, age 12, were captured, but the other five or six escaped,…

You Gotta Have Faith-Based Politics

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…spread to cities and towns across America, eventually making their way to Washington. A short time after President Eisenhower asked a group of Senators if he could join their prayer breakfast, it became a national event. Actually the founder of the prayer breakfast was Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian-born Methodist preacher. Motivated largely by a desire to fight socialism and communism, Vereide described his vision in 1946: One world in active coop…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…the center of American culture. This effort is still underway, led by the Washington, DC headquartered, Institute on Religion and Democracy, which was originally a project of the neoconservative Coalition for a Democratic Majority. The stakes in the decline of prochoice Christian churches, (and the continuing siege against them) aren’t limited, however, to matters of reproductive rights, access and justice. Putnam observed that the trend of overa…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

…penchant for conspiracies, not in spite of it. – Arlie Russell Hochschild, Washington Post, 11/7/16 In mid-October Alex Jones, host of Infowars, infamous breeding ground of conspiracy theories, announced that “high-level sources” connected to Hillary Clinton had informed him that both Clinton and President Obama were demons. As proof of the impact that conspiracy theories are having on this election cycle, President Obama humorously responded to J…

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…and elevate the conversation,” says Gehring, Catholic program director for Washington-based nonprofit Faith in Public Life. But then, in a slippery Beltway appeal to the center, Gehring quickly adds: “If conservatives need to do some soul searching about how they often set back the important cause of religious liberty, progressives also need a better approach that fosters dialogue and common ground instead of division.” Yet Gehring offers just one…

Nearly Half of LGBT People Claim No Religion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y is no worse a sin than thievery or alcoholism? Honestly, I’m shocked the number of non-religious gays isn’t higher than 48% with all that religious “love” floating around. Of course, much can be said for the progress of LGBT acceptance, especially within those non-evangelical mainline churches. Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians all welcome LGBT people not just in their pews, but in leadership ro…