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Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

…June 1, 2020, Federal officers violently cleared peaceful protestors from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square in order to make way for Trump to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church and hold a Bible.* He had just given a speech at the Rose Garden, vowing to use military force to quell national protests over police brutality and the recent murder of George Floyd. As soon as he finished, he walked across the street with Attorney General Barr a…

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…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…ted to address “an audience that included many bishops” at a conference in Washington that spring. He told them with typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were cl…

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

…ultures that often provide few other spaces for them—and there are a large number of gay and lesbian practitioners in Santería—the practice itself is deeply interwoven with discourses of freedom and liberation, and power and oppression. This is why the main focus of my work now includes gays and lesbians and women of all sexual orientations. So what have you learned over the course of your research? I’ve interviewed women of all sexual orientation…

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,…

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…