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The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

By Joanna Brooks

…always emphasized that we should tell faith-promoting stories and put the best spin on everything. I think the consequences of that can be devastating for individuals full of flaws and trying to reckon with their own stories. When I think about the girl I was—I was a thief, I was stealing things, I was having an affair—but in truth I was a very human, flawed, striving, seeking young woman. For a long time, I stole things in my life. And I really…

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…pular culture is filled with images of a militant warrior masculinity, an ideal based on mythical cowboys and soldiers, on heroic (white) men who resort to violence to achieve order. As I note in my recently-published book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, favorite evangelical heroes included Teddy Roosevelt, Generals Patton and MacArthur, Mel Gibson’s William Wallace, and the actor John Wayne,…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…re-fast meal prepared for you. This person is your suhouri, your beautiful best friend in the world. No greater gorgeousness can be imagined or described. (Despite this beauty, please keep an eye on small children, who may fall asleep and drown in cereal bowls because they are like ‘dear God why am I awake and these Froot Loops look so comfortable to just rest my face in and….) Surveillance: NSA, FBI and NYPD agents assigned to mosques easier to f…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…s. When asked about the change, Scheidler says, “We searched for the three best photographs we could find because we wanted pictures where people would see the humanity of these people.” Throughout our conversation, he returned to the Christian tenets of compassionate understanding and the belovedness of all people before God, indicating a sincerity that often goes unnoticed in a movement frequently characterized by its violent history. But it is…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…blind spots. The goal for the food movement must be how to make use of the best of rationalism and the best of traditional ways. Believing that tradition will “save us” is as deluded as believing that its elimination will. Jewish tradition itself acknowledges anxieties over law and restricted behavior. One explanation is often cited to suggest that after the coming of the messiah the pig will change its nature—it will start to chew its cud—and bec…

Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…is, Joel Osteen is not selling the preferential option for the poor. Your best life is not being flooded out of your house — ProfB (@AntheaButler) August 28, 2017 Whatever one’s opinion about Osteen, the Twitter storm above Lakewood Church perpetuated misconceptions about disaster response—namely, that all faith communities are naturally adept at it. Lakewood Church may be more typical than atypical, with organizational issues and theology gettin…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…orsens and inaction still reigns, they’re learning how to implement an ambitious environmental sustainability plan. It will make them better caretakers of the land that they’ve committed themselves to live—and die—on. Maybe it’s best to save the word “martyr” for other, more violent witnessing happening now in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. But after seeing Of Gods and Men here, I’m not sure that it doesn’t apply, and in the best…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…erdict, and a gavel. Sometimes God debates will end with an audience poll, but not this one. The question wasn’t finally settled, and still the debaters each did what they do best, despite each other. Sometimes, at a God debate or a football game, the best you can hope for is a decent after-party….

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…hool children author Lance Williams founded, and is, at the very least, a idealized simplification of a complex religious movement. While the Blackstone creed borrowed directly from Ali’s writing, insisting “all members must obey the laws of the government,” when the El Rukns recited this creed they either had some elaborate exegesis in mind or were plain dissembling. Likewise with El Rukn Islam, of which the authors say, “Whether the tenets of Is…

Václav Havel: Democracy as Spiritual Discipline

By Peter Montgomery

…osing means that contradict the ends. As we know from history, that is the best way to eliminate the very ends we set out to achieve. In other words, if there is to be any chance at all of success, there is only one way to strive for decency, reason, responsibility, sincerity, civility, and tolerance, and that is decently, reasonably, responsibly, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly. I’m aware that, in everyday politics, that is not seen as the mo…