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New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…omote one religious perspective over all others, and which encouraged critical thinking, careful communication skills, and creativity. Twenty-eight districts had courses that reflected a combination of successful and unsuccessful elements, sometimes achieving a nonsectarian approach, but other times lapsing—sometimes considerably—into religious bias of the kinds noted by federal courts. The courses of twenty-one districts were thoroughly religious…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…ture. Housed within the new museum will be the Center for the Study of African American Religion, a $10 million project that aims to further research on the inextricable role spirituality has played in black America’s past and present. I took a moment to speak with its recently appointed chief curator [and current advisor to RD’s “Remapping U.S. Christianities” initiative], the Rev. Yolanda Pierce, about the goals of the center and the narrative o…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…ally evangelicals in name only. In pushing these voters out of the evangelical camp, these leaders hope for a purer portrait of American evangelicalism—one where religious devotion matches with proper political decisions. But looking at the data again suggests a more complicated picture, and challenges this evangelical spin. While it’s true that Trump’s support from evangelicals decreases the more they go to church—dropping from almost 55% among t…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…Former industrial cities with once sizable populations of blue-collar African-American laborers were among the cities hit hardest by massive downturns in resources, as businesses and corporations relocated to better markets in the suburbs or overseas and as middle-class populations fled urban core neighborhoods for outer-ring or suburban locales. Both of these dynamics contributed to vastly diminished property values, tax revenues, and local urba…

No ‘Christian Compassion’ in Tony Perkins’ Response to Anti-Gay Bullying, Suicides

By Andrew Marin

…gious gatekeepers trying to trap him about governmental policy to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Jesus also made sure to remind everyone not to ‘love the sinner, hate the sin,’ as many recite, but rather to love the sinner and hate the sin in their own life. A few years ago I was involved in a conversation with a partnered gay Christian and a man who identified as ‘ex-gay.’ The latter said: “It’s not free will unless…

The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday

By Peter Laarman

…sing then, that American revolutionary and future president John Adams was called “John the Roundhead” as a young lawyer. Much later, in 1786, Adams made a special pilgrimage to key English Civil War battlefields, referring to them as “holy ground.” Looking back at the American Revolution during that same period, Adams recalled that “if Parliament could tax us, they could establish the Church of England with all of its creeds, articles, tests, cer…

The Catholic Apocalypse Cometh

By Patricia Miller

…While Clinton did win Hispanic Catholics by a similar wide margin—67 to 26—there simply weren’t enough Hispanic Catholics to make up the difference. It appears the white Catholic apocalypse cometh for the Democratic Party, and with it perhaps an apocalypse of a much broader magnitude….

The Catholic-Evangelical (Non-)Coalition

By Patricia Miller

…A 2009 Gallup Poll found “almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholics” in terms of the moral acceptability of abortion, with 40% of Catholics saying it was morally acceptable versus 41% of all Americans.” A 2013 Pew Poll found that just over half (53%) of white Catholics said that having an abortion was morally wrong, which was slightly higher than general opinion (49%), while three-quarters of white E…

Post-Election, “Is The Black Church Dead?” Redux

By Anthea Butler

…ilization, voter apathy, and a growing number of conservative African-American candidates. A record number of black Republicans ran in this midterm election (some had already lost their primaries), and two are heading to Congress. Tim Scott will be the first African-American Republican to represent South Carolina in Congress since Reconstruction. (He beat out Strom Thurmond’s son in the primaries.) Iraq war veteran Allen West will be headed to Con…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…urch as their sexually repressive nemesis and have engaged in several anti-Catholic campaigns, including a “parade for apostasy” held in Canada in 2002, in which high school students were given crosses and invited to burn them. It is unclear if the Catholic Church was actually involved in the government shut down of the pleasure hospital, though Boisselier made similar conspiratorial claims when explaining why Clonaid refused to present the eviden…