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What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…argued that directly subsidizing a house of worship—even for ostensibly non-religious expenses such as playground surfaces—is proscribed by the Establishment Clause. It’s notable that the Court has previously declined to require religious organizations to distinguish between their religious and secular activities. A 1987 decision, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos, involved an Establishment Clause challenge to a religious exemption that…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…holics 48-41, he gets absolutely crushed among Hispanics, 84-12. A few back-of-the-envelope calculations put us firmly in “Holy shit” territory. Even assuming a generous 50-50 split of black, Asian, and other Catholics, Clinton comes out ahead something like 56-36. It’s highly unlikely the race will be that much of a blowout among Catholics, much less Americans overall. Still, strong turnout from Hispanic voters could do serious damage among the r…

Markets and Morality: Faith-Based Investment Group Profiles Polluters

By Frederick Clarkson

…nk about business decisions, especially when we look at both short and long-term concerns. Faith-based investors, she says, have been way ahead of the curve on several major issues, noting that they had for years warned of predatory mortgage lending and called for full disclosure of risk. “One hesitates to use the term prophetic in this context,” she said, underscoring that they had “flagged a number of issues that could have been addressed sooner…

How to Make Nones and Lose Money: Study Shows Cost of Catholic Sex Abuse Scandals

By Kaya Oakes

…suing disaffiliation isn’t necessarily about the abuse, but about the cover-up. Clohessy reports a drop-off in younger people contacting SNAP, but says that’s “largely attributable to an enormous backlog of survivors who told no one for decades.” He notes that church officials may report that abuse cases are declining, but that it must also be taken into account that given the history of secrecy in the Catholic hierarchy, it can be difficult to tr…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…to them. This changed when I became visibly pregnant. My status as a mother-to-be was a bridge into the congregation, which enabled me to talk to the women there. And I think that this was one of those moments when I had to recognize the ways that gender does make difference. Serene Jones: It’s not like gender is part of who I am and the rest of me is something else. My first book, Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety, looks at a topic that could appe…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…nton said we need to “inject faith into policy” (CNN/Sojourners town hall 6-26-07). Barack Obama asked a congregation to help him “become an instrument of God” and join him in creating “a Kingdom right here on Earth” (10-17-07). Mike Huckabee tells a crowd: “What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards” (1-14-08). 6.) TOP TEN COMPARISONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DENTISTRY: Between…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…onent will hit. Except of course Trump, who went after everybody with a two-by-four. Even the god talk—normally red meat for the Republican base—was strangely attenuated. Walker, as is his wont, dodged Kelly’s question about whether his opposition to abortion even in the case of rape or incest put him out of the mainstream (it does) by saying he is now and always has been pro-life. According to Walker, that’s “a position that’s in line with everyd…

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

By Frances Kissling

…hen I was growing up there were a fair share of what we called Father “What-a-wastes”… outgoing, kind, good looking, mostly young men who made you wonder what they were doing in the priesthood. They’d make, we thought, great husbands and fathers. But alongside them were many profoundly unhappy and lonely men, poorly adjusted and quietly drinking themselves to death. These men got little help from the church who saw their problem as moral weakness,…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…what happened… If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.” As Buddhist scholar Stephen Jenkins counsels, “We must be careful to understand what ‘nonviolence’ means [when the Dalai Lama uses the term]. Under the right conditions, it could include killing a terrorist.” Indeed, the Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism’s co-authors, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., and Robert E. Buswell, Jr., have it rig…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…l system directed mainly by men.” One response came in the form of the self-proclaimed alt-right Buddhist group Right-Wing Dharma Squads. Hiding behind pseudonyms, these four white men have produced a series of podcasts that mock liberal Buddhism and interweave reflections on Buddhist texts with misogyny, antisemitism, and the celebration of Asian Buddhist monastic extremists such as U Wirathu who have incited violence against Muslims. For those r…