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6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…ons. I don’t mean a simplistic parity (e.g., giving each religion an equal number of words or lines). Religious balance instead means presenting each religious tradition as fairly and accurately as possible. While that might seem an obvious good to most RD readers, the textbook review process also taught me that entrenched, politically powerful, and well-organized forces in Texas and beyond are working to undermine that kind of religious balance i…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ars. How did that change your thinking? Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s in Detroit, I didn’t know any gay people who were out, so it was all undercover and I was just naïve. As a younger pastor, I was in a renewalist community and the gay people I knew there all regarded their same-sex attraction as a temptation they were trying to resist. I was just taking their story on its face and had no experience understanding about it; I inherited the tradi…

A person holding a sign that says "If you're not angry then you're not listening."

Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…rary Hub, Religion Dispatches, ESPN’s Undefeated, and YES! magazine. Davin Phoenix: Associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, Davin researches how race interacts with various spheres of U.S. politics to shape people’s attitudes, emotions, and behavior. His book, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotions in Politics is winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2020 Ralph J. Bunche Award for best sc…

Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

By Joseph Laycock

…utcome regarding whether or not these policies pass Constitutional muster. Phoenix city council member Sal DiCiccio has said that The Satanic Temple’s goal is to “ban all prayer.” Is that true? No. You will find that TST never asks for the removal or banning of religious iconography or presence in the public square. If, however, discrimination becomes a part of the process for any government entity, the only legal outcome is that public forum’s re…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…was 11 weeks pregnant by permitting an abortion in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix. I want to clarify a few basic issues lest the move to focus finally on Catholic women backfire inadvertently. While Maureen Dowd wants a nun for Pope, and Nicholas Kristof extols the virtues of “lowly nuns” and all who work for justice, I worry that a lack of nuance can replicate the dynamics of patriarchy only with a few women religious in charge—or held responsib…

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

…os will slink completely into oblivion. Similar to a bigoted, anti-Semitic phoenix rising from the ashes, white privileged men like Milo always seem to bounce back with another book deal, another commentator gig and more notoriety. White nationalism is one very persistent hydra, and those who think this is the end of Yiannopoulos seem to be underestimating what he means to the young “alt-right” movement. Yiannopoulos seems to agree, posting this m…

When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…nother for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medical, and vaccine conspiracists, along with insurrection veterans like Flynn, Eric Trump, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone grab most of the media attention. But a disturbing religious dimension has received far less attention; that is, until November, when Flynn blurted out their broad intention at a San Antonio rally, “If we ar…

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…invites meditation between a Buddha statue and a picture of Christ. Occupy Phoenix built an improvised shrine where First Nations traditions interact with Catholicism and Neo-Paganism. On Zuccotti Park’s makeshift community altar, Gandhi shares space with Alex Grey, John the Baptist, and Kwan-Yin. Here, in sites of religious conjunction that must repel some participants, we can locate the College of Sociology’s “sacred,” but no more than the term…

Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…shes of Mt. Carmel, the largest forest fire in Israel’s history, a strange phoenix is rising: a clash of civilizations. It’s not between Israelis and Arabs, nor between Jews and Muslims. It’s a clash between two worldviews. Let’s oversimplify, for convenience, and call them “ancient” and “modern.” The clash has flared up around the question of why the fire started. The moderns blame people and a drought-parched landscape. A couple of negligent kid…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

…ise of Her is probably familiar to you. A gloomy, introverted guy (Joaquin Phoenix) in the middle of a divorce gets a new intelligent operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) after seeing an ad for it on his way home from his job (penning personalized handwritten letters). Samantha, as the OS names herself, is charming and naïve about the “real world”—a kind of digital Annie Hall—but she’s great at both organizing Theodore’s life and making…