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News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…on: The Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas, yet another notch in their brutal belt. But Burma’s Muslims have been suffering from long before. We reflexively associate Buddhism with pacifism and Islam with violence; the regional situation, namely across ASEAN and in neighboring countries, shows that Buddhist-majority countries are as complicated as Muslim-majority countries (both after all being populated by humans). While Thailand fights a Musl…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…innumerable hours and countless dollars spent reassembling now-waterlogged lives. The news crews will be long gone by then, chasing someone else’s pain. Some of the stories they will miss are those with the deepest meaning: the next Thanksgiving dinner at my great-grandparents’ table, communities coming together to help those who don’t look or think or believe as they do, hours of hard labor and simple acts of hospitality extended to those left wi…

Photo of a Dying Man: The Journalist’s Job

By Jason Anthony

…er tastes for gore, sex, and voyeurism. By this measure, the Post is a bad news outlet. But it doesn’t change the fact that a death on the subway is news, the story of life as it happens, the impartial mirror we rely on to tell us the real story about ourselves. In this regard, the Post is within the larger mission of journalism to print a photo of a subway death. If that raises our hackles, well, it should. Journalism is unsettling, on both its g…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…nstrating the Catholic hierarchy’s sometimes criminal efforts to sweep bad news under the rug. Then came a follow-up federal investigation, the resignation of Archbishop Donald Wuerl for his part in the cover-up, and the mass resignation of Chilean bishops for the same thing. It was enough to lead Catholic theologian Mary Hunt to wonder whether the entire structure of the church needed to be replaced with something more lay-driven. The usual malar…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ding the message being LGBT means we are defective, broken, and wrong. I struggled with substance abuse, struggled to support myself, and struggled to obtain an education. Kendall, who is now a second-year law student at the University of California Los Angeles, highlighted the deeply religious roots of conversion therapy, even when practiced by licensed therapists who, like Nicolosi, claim their personal faith does not influence their practice. “…

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

…consistently upheld the DOE’s policy—until 2001. The Supreme Court’s 2001 ruling in Good News Club v. Milford Central School changed everything, opening up new possibilities for the Bronx Household of Faith to challenge the City’s policy, and the court proceedings began anew. The Good News Club decision created a new legal theory for opponents of church-state separation. The Court held that religion is nothing but speech from a certain point of v…

To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd

By Joshua L. Lazard

…en recent news about black clergy in battleground states endorsing Donald Trump, cable news outlets are likely to pit a clergy member against a Democratic strategist as the typical point-counterpoint. There is never a space given to black Christian intellectuals who function as interpreters of what is happening. Even when Donald Trump made an appearance at Great Faith Ministries International and received a Hebrew prayer cloth, no news outlet in e…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ys usually penalized by Dominican law,” a statement reads. They add that Cyrus “uses inadequate attire, corrupts language, uses perverse imagery and phrasing, uses phrases with double meanings, glorifies crime, violence and denigrating acts against civility and promotes sex, lesbian sex and the use of inadequate objects in public.” Being gay or lesbian is not a crime in the Caribbean island but religious fundamentalists have grown increasingly voc…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…ildren, but of everyone else’s, too. After all, isn’t it good to know the truth, and isn’t it good to share it, even if that means stacking school boards and inciting legal battles? It’s the truth, and nothing justifies like the truth. Facing the Unknown But some churchgoers do not attend every Sunday in search of answers. These people understand the church not as a provider of answers but as a poser of questions. That is, for these Christians the…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…ast’s many adoring fans don’t see the irony in fawning over a Christianity Today product for its marketing metrics and emotional pull, when the episodes are meant to investigate how these very same factors contributed to the real-life rise and fall of Mars Hill, means that the podcast by design sublimates self-awareness. It’s true that some have found the podcast helpful to work through their own issues with church communities and spiritual trauma…