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America Does Not Have a Religious Identity

By Dennis J Goldford

…he Constitution of Religious Freedom, with the deliberate double meaning of 1) the Constitution as a charter of religious freedom, and 2) the act of constituting religious freedom, and Baylor came up with the clever subtitle, God, Politics, and the First Amendment. I was able to give my concluding chapter the title, “One Nation under Whose God?” How do you feel about the cover? I’m actually quite happy with it. Beyond being aesthetically attractiv…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…taxonomies—good bodies and bad bodies, dirty acts and pure acts, flesh and spirit, those in authority and those under authority. I think that tendency has hurt people, and I think it’s implicated in rape culture. And that matters: this is not an interesting little theological problem for specialists to rub their chins over and try to work out in the abstract. But. You know what? I just can’t, right now, mock the parents on Preachers’ Daughters fo…

Pope Francis Distances Himself Further from the Right in New Interview

By Peter Montgomery

…It is necessary to accompany them with mercy. When that happens, the Holy Spirit inspires the priest to say the right thing…. We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter,…

Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?

By Paul Harvey

…gliding and riffing played well outside the South and among the very small number of Southern liberals already aware of the sins of segregation, but it seems almost calculated to make the vast majority of white Southern Christians dismiss King as some highfalutin’ liberal with grandiose ideas, rather than a minister of their own Christian faith calling attention to laws that contradicted the spirit of the Gospel. This, about a man who led doubtles…

The Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart

By Paul Harvey

…is dressing room to the set. The reverence on the set and in the film paid spiritual dividends. Years later, according to DeMille, a minister told the English actor who portrayed Jesus: “I saw you in The King of Kings when I was a child, and now, every time I speak of Jesus, it is your face I see.” 2. These films quickly become part of particular evangelical subcultures, giving them a long life long after the initial publicity of the premiere show…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…ren’s submission to father figures, and individuals’ surrender to the Holy Spirit. Leaders like Feliciano seem to value these perspectives over constitutional principles—principles that were hard-won after the collapse of the military dictatorship less than three decades ago, and cultivated during the slow restoration of democracy ever since. When Feliciano was nominated on March 6, a coalition of gays, lesbians, trans people, women, feminists,…

Dispatches from the Beltway: Beyond the Graying and Greening Religious Right

By Robert P. Jones

…and right evangelicals on each of these issues. Importantly, more than 8 in 10 in the evangelical left/center want to find middle ground on abortion laws, while 6 in 10 in the evangelical right think there’s no room for compromise on abortion. On gay and lesbian issues, while only a quarter of the left/center evangelicals support allowing gays and lesbians to legally marry, a near majority (49 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to e…

Grading Geltanthropy: The Case of Kellogg’s

By Peter Laarman

…edding of a corporation’s pecuniary interest to the public’s philanthropic spirit. Hungry kids: we all know about them. We hate the idea of eight million American children living in extreme poverty. We shudder to think that as many as one in five American kids is not fed adequately and may go to bed hungry. We cringe at the idea that for so many of our youngest, getting a free or reduced-price breakfast or lunch at school is such a nutritional lif…

Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…y rectified the situation. But it is fascinating to note that many of those 118 cardinals who will elect his successor are not competent enough in the ancient language to understand, “Quapropter bene conscius ponderis huius actus plena libertate declaro me ministerio Episcopi Romae, Successoris Sancti Petri, mihi per manus Cardinalium die 19 aprilis MMV commissum renuntiare ita ut a die 28 februarii MMXIII, hora 20, sedes Romae, sedes Sancti Petri…

Ray Lewis Isn’t the Only One Bringing Religion to Super Bowl Sunday

By Joanna Brooks

…cast judgment on his conversion. I will keep the Diet Coke cold. I will keep the queso hot and bubbly. I will care for the children whose parents are caught up in the SuperBowl spirit. And I will vacuum up the mess when the Bowl is finally over. I may be a sports atheist. But I know when I’m outnumbered….