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Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About

By Ingrid Lilly

…ncient and oft recycled stories in world cultures. In looking at The Flood today, we participate in thousands of years of meaning-making. We connect ourselves to world literature, to ancient civilizations, and to a perennial story about a cataclysm that changed the world. Long before the Bible was written, The Flood was a blockbuster of the ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean worlds. It originated in Sumer over 4000 years ago. New versions were…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…who profited from putting up pilgrims and selling food and wares. Then as today, approval by the Vatican involved both strict alignment with doctrine and a spotless personal record for anyone involved. Trends in official sainthood have changed over time based on who best represents the political and theological interests of the Vatican. Still, the Catholic Church tends not to uphold stringent regulations on folk devotion. Most apparitions, miracl…

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…and a more equitable role for women in LDS Church leadership and service. Today, the global operations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are governed and directed by an all-male organizational chain of command. Mormon women may participate in some decision-making at the congregational level. But at all levels most forms of institutional power—from the power to shape the church’s global policies and finances to the power to bles…

No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment

By Peter Laarman

…equality—has been helpful to us. And we have grown relatively more in the South, where there is still the expectation of people going to church. We need to explore new ways to gather, as our forms of gathering and worship are still pretty much rooted in ancient practices that may now be losing their cultural relevance. But let me say emphatically that what grows churches is not gimmicks. Growth comes from mission, ministry, and impact. Growth com…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…taining a prohibition on public funding of abortions justifies support for today’s Republican Party. But bishops should be wary of such a judgment. Today’s Republican Party is not an appropriate or reliable vehicle for the advancement of Catholic teaching in the medium and long run because of the simple but profound fact that no American political party ever is such a vehicle or ever will be. But the association with Trump leaves a particularly da…

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

Today Gallup announced the results of a survey in which 77 percent of Americans “say religion is losing its influence on American life,” which represents “the most negative evaluation” of religion’s impact since 1970. Writing today in Religion Dispatches, I have to wonder about the future of any publication with “religion” in its name. Is it time for a mission overhaul or simply rebranding? It’s not that RD has been oblivious to the trend. An int…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…Saiving and are surprised to discover her work. Witness the blogosphere of today. Theological Nostalgia “I am a student of theology; I am also a woman,” wrote Saiving in the first two sentences of “The Human Situation.” She was recognized in that issue of Time alongside reports of the Nixon/Kennedy rivalry, of unrest at Vanderbilt over the expulsion of “Negro Divinity Student James M. Lawson Jr. for promoting sit in demonstrations,” and of various…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…something about the enduring place of Jewish languages in American culture today. “The Craftsman” was the first television job for a young writer named Paul Wolff, now a professor of screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Wolff’s big break came when his agent secured for him a meeting with Michael Landon. As Wolff recalls, he had written a short story about a coffin maker who didn’t use nails. In the first draft, Wolff’s craftsman…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ty as a faith practice is fringe even within white nationalist communities today, but the language and the ideas have been adopted by several prominent thought leaders in the current far-right, and the fact that these lines are being spoken openly to wild applause speaks volumes about the real opinions of the America First movement as a whole, regardless of their Young Republicans Club aesthetic. That Torba was that open about this language is an…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…t those kinds of things with religious and ritual significance. With diets today, there seems to be a lot of fear involved, too. It’s terrifying to live in a place where the causes of diseases like Alzheimer’s, autism, or ADHD, or the causes of weight gain, are mysterious. So what we do is come up with certain causes for the things that we fear. If we’re trying to avoid things that we fear, why would we invent a world full of toxins that don’t rea…