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How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…sures— administered by the Human Performance Laboratory and Student Health Services. When ORU’s expanded wellness program was introduced in 1976, a significant portion of each student’s grade in the required first-year introductory fitness classes—Aerobics I and II—came from electronically recorded “aerobic points.” At the “Aerobics Center,” students filled out a computer card with their ID number, activity number, and the time, intensity, and dis…

Are the Girls Scouts Evil? And What About Thin Mints?

By Patricia Miller

…le with Catholic values.” And what could members of the 100-year-old girls service organization be doing that has so alarmed Carlson? Are Brownies dissing Jesus by making Christmas trees out of old Reader’s Digests? Is someone taking that Campfire badge a little too seriously (I swear it was an accident—and my sister’s eyebrows did grow back)? No, what has Carlson concerned isn’t anything specific Girl Scouts or Girl Scout troops in St. Louis are…

“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…hat one person is the son of God in the eyes of many. The life of love and service that Christ embodied—a life that Christians in Baltimore and beyond seek to emulate—seems to coordinate with the social justice messages of BLM. Yet there hasn’t been a party line when it comes to black churches lending support to this movement for black liberation. As Rev. Osagyefo Sekou has noted here on RD, this has led to discord between activists and black chur…

Militias, Trump, Guns, and ISIS: Too much Masculinity?

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

…it could be that certain men—disaffected immigrants or working-class white Americans, who’ve seen their possibilities for concrete provision and protection shrink because of impersonal economic forces—might be particularly drawn to a cause that seems in some fundamental way purposive, regardless of what it is. One way to describe what’s happening is that today there is a surplus of masculine purpose. Purposive energy exceeds the capacity to imagin…

Clinton’s Faith Talk Not New, But Was There a Better Answer?

By Sarah Posner

…o-Clinton project Correct the Record, recently wrote for the Religion News Service about his admiration for Clinton’s faith and how he has “loved every second of getting to know this woman with such strong Midwest, Methodist sensibilities.” Faith Voters for Hillary tweets quotes from Clinton that promote this view of her faith. Quoting her remarks at a 2007 forum on faith for Democratic presidential candidates, the group highlighted that she prays…

Why We Must Reclaim “Religious Freedom” from Christian Conservatives

By Bill Berkowitz

…I think the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., is a turning point in American politics and jurisprudence, the effects of which will be felt for a long time. The case stemmed from a claim by the conservative evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores that the Obama administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act included four kinds of contraceptives that they considered to be abortifacients, and that therefore the…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…merged as the eventual nominee, although both eventual nominees played lip service to evangelical concerns. This cycle, as I wrote on several occasions last year, Donald Trump has scrambled the formula for winning over evangelical voters. Rather than pandering to evangelical voters with talk of “biblical values,” opposition to abortion, or promises to fight for “religious liberty,” Trump has played his own game. While evangelical “leaders” demand…

Wheaton and the “Same God” Controversy: A Theological Opportunity Squandered?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…for relationship with God; moral precepts are ordered to the knowledge and service of this God. This philosophical language and these intertextual themes are less prominent in Christian thought today, especially among Protestants. Where Christianity’s similarities with the monotheisms—whether of Greeks, Jews, or Muslims—were once central to Christian interfaith apologetics, now it is the distinctive marks that predominate. Some evangelicals have a…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…t out is what you will get back. So, the golden rule may still receive lip service, but it is too expensive to practice, according to the rich nations of the world. What about reparations or repentance? Karmic thinking alerts us that it is too expensive not to practice repentance and repair. Everything is connected COP21 is a success. It was more than we could have expected—and the Pope’s moral frame prevailed. The moral issue is the connection be…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…so implicit in the latter explanation is the misperception, common to many American observers, that the United States is at the center of the church’s concerns. In reality, the Catholic Church’s interest in immigration ranges far beyond the Latino and Asian immigrants bolstering the ranks of the U.S. church. “For us Christians [working for refugees] is an expression of the love of the Father in Christ Jesus,” Pope Francis said of working with refu…