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Science Mike Building a “Christian Science” Liturgy for the Nones

By D. Ashley Campbell

…theism to something you might describe as scientific faith. McHargue has a new book and a growing audience, but the question is how effectively his approach can speak to young people who feel uncomfortable with the church. Raised Southern Baptist, the church was central to McHargue’s life, and so was tinkering with technology. When he was eight years old he disassembled a VCR and, using found items, built a model of the proton packs used in Ghostb…

Tearing Down Evangelical Icons: Why Penn’s Decision to Remove George Whitefield Statue May Be Good for American Evangelicalism

By Peter Y. Choi

…Coe called a “cathedral mentality,” the desire to build lasting monuments commemorating our own achievements. Such monument-making almost always requires a derogation of historical memory. When an alumni group at the University of Pennsylvania set out to mark the bicentennial of Whitefield’s birth by erecting a statue and calling him a founder of the university, they veered from the facts of history and followed a script of their own revisionist…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…three weeks as they went from mosque to Hindu temple to Baptist church in search of new ways to educate young Americans about religious diversity. No, not a reality TV show, as Kevin joked, but part of a program called “Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity.” Intrigued, we asked him to tell us more about it. RD: A great idea, this program. Who is behind it? Kevin Childress: The Institute is co-sp…

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

This morning, just one day after the son of storied evangelical-advisor-to-presidents, Franklin Graham, bluntly suggested that President Obama should “produce” his birth certificate, the White House has released the president’s “long-form” certificate: The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting fro…

Errol Morris’ Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and ‘Cult’ Deprogramming

By David Mihalyfy

…at actually happened, and how closely does that hew to tabloid reports? In search of answers, Morris presents lengthy interviews with McKinney, her surviving accomplice, and two journalists who reported the scandal. Because Anderson did not agree to be interviewed, his perspective is cobbled together, in part, from an analysis of Mormonism given by ex-Mormon and current gay activist Troy Williams. Williams’ former insider status allows him to psyc…

What’s Truth? Scientific Method Under the Microscope

By Arri Eisen

…the New York Times last week brings many of these issues to a head in soon-to-be-published experiments on extra-sensory perception. Yes, the decline effect also shows up in work on the paranormal. In the current case, a (and this is important) prominent psychologist presents data that people can predict, statistically better than chance, what random erotic picture will appear next on the computer screen. The social psychology academic community i…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…s the “Christian worldview,” which in turn is the product of Christian anti-communist activism from the Cold War era. After the Cold War ended, “Christian worldview” ideologues kept it alive by claiming that Marxism has gone underground as an insidious fifth column that has infiltrated the American government. This is seen now in Tea Party and religious right rhetoric about President Obama and other Democrats being crypto-socialists, as just one e…

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

…h century concepts of feminism and secularism, argues Gale L. Kenny in her new book, Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. Kenny offers a history of White liberal Protestant women’s engagement with multiculturalism and feminism from the 1910s through 1940s, arguing that imperial logics and racial hierarchy guided their embrace of Christian feminism even as they rejected certain forms of American imperi…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…rhoods for low and moderate income households in the future; and that mixed-income neighborhoods remain a hallmark of the New York City environment. It also is an affront to students who have spoken out against this injustice. I stand for bodega owners losing their properties in Brooklyn, for the families that lost their homes in the wake of the Barclays Center, and for the men, women, and children of West Harlem who struggle to make ends meet. My…

Liberal Religion is Not Just Compromise

By Rebecca Ann Parker

…lity and ecological stewardship. Additionally, progressive people need a renewed commitment to building and sustaining communities of faith—houses of hope—that can nourish our values and empower us for the long-haul change needed to establish a just and sustainable society. Is there anything you had to leave out? We love the 19th-century progressive religious leaders, such as Elizabeth Peabody, William Ellery Channing, or Francis Ellen Watkins Har…