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Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…ribbons differentiating civilians and flight crews from first responders. Orlando, Florida, on the logic that far more were injured in both visible and “invisible” ways, has opted to erect 250,000 flags. It is not death that is primary here, in any case. The flag’s sacrality, to use an oft-invoked religious term for the societal roles this emblem plays, is linked to its resistance of a single straight meaning. The flag’s power resides in its exce…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d.” Less than two months later, someone detonated a homemade bomb inside a Chicago-area Target bathroom. But even after Staver herself admitted on Fox News that the “bathroom predator” myth is a lie, Liberty Counsel continues to peddle the repeatedly debunked scare-tactic. The transphobic dog-whistle contained in Liberty Counsel’s complaints about “bathroom privacy” seems designed to reach out to the right-wing group’s base, and continues the orga…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…petty intolerance and the left for “not getting it”; and Joel Hunter, the Florida megachurch pastor who infamously turned down a stint as the president of the Christian Coalition, and author of A New Kind of Conservative. FIPL has taken a lead role in promoting the “broader agenda” of some of these evangelical leaders. No longer interested in fighting the so-called “culture wars,” these leaders say they will de-emphasize their opposition to abort…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…Hesse, Alessandra Ragusin, Amanda E.K., and Ryan Connell, who attended the Florida roundtable, were traveling the country on The Unapologetics Tour, in connection with which they visited sites important to evangelical history and subculture, interviewed numerous exvangelicals, and held book readings and events related to the launch of journalist and novelist Hesse’s second novel, Carnality: Sebastian Phoenix and the Dark Star. One of these events…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…other of nine, lived in Monmouth, Illinois, a small town 200 miles west of Chicago, near the Iowa border. When she “discovered that beyond a doubt that [she] was pregnant,” she “was not prepared to cope with this physically or mentally, having nine children already,” so she decided to seek an abortion. This overtaxed mother relayed how her husband, a prominent chiropractic physician, asked a number of his medical colleagues “where we could get inf…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…the sticker test to 1,170 kids at schools in six cities—Amman, Cape Town, Chicago, Guangzhou, Istanbul, and Toronto. “Altruism was calculated as the number of stickers shared out of 10,” they write. The researchers also gave the kids another test, in which they watched videos of people hurting other people, and then judged (a) how mean the bullies were, and (b) how much punishment the bullies deserved. Then Decety and his collaborators went to th…

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

…ms was the founder and head pastor of New Destiny Christian Center outside Orlando, Florida. Muggers in the Bronx stole a man’s Bible. Moses’ biblical journey is now a new Facebook game. An Orthodox rabbi from the West Bank matches up gay men and lesbian women in traditional Jewish marriages. The Princeton Review published a list of the most and least religious colleges and universities. Brigham Young University topped the most religious schools a…

Marco Rubio’s “Constitutional Scholar”

By Julie Ingersoll

…im Stratton at the Orlando Sentinel alerted me to an event held in central Florida yesterday in which tea party Senate candidate Marco Rubio aligned himself with Glenn Beck’s BFF David Barton. Barton, the headline speaker at the event in support of Rubio’s candidacy, is the fundamentalist Christian promoter of “Christian American History” and a revisionist history of race in America that paints the Republican party as the party of racial equality….

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…his god in whose name Zimmerman acted under the cover of law on that dusky Florida night? This is the question Dr. Butler rightly—and to the discomfort of many—is raising. Her answer: it’s the “American god,” who is nothing less than “a white racist god . . . carrying a gun and stalking young black men.” This edgy reference to a “white racist god,” drawn from Dr. William R. Jones’s book Is God a White Racist?, is what seems to have stuck in some p…

Waiting for Lightning to Strike: A Wobbly Agnostic among the Atheists

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…applaud this news, a murmur through the convention hall, Blackberries and iPhones tweeting on all sides of me. “When you come out of the closet, shut the door behind you because you won’t need it anymore,” he continues. (Who’s he talking to? He’s preaching to the choir, isn’t he? As far as he knows?) “If you don’t have a deity,” he says, “you are an atheist.” I’m an English teacher and I agree this may indeed define an atheist—someone without a g…