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The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…ne in three Americans under 30 are religiously unaffiliated—four times the rate for the over-65 cohort that keeps Rove in business. This isn’t a trickle, it’s a tsunami. Google also shows that there’s no shortage of interest in the Republican Party’s “white problem.” The white electorate, long the bread-and-butter of Republican victories, has declined from 81 percent in 2000 to 72 percent in 2012. But if you look under the hood, the Republicans’ w…

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

…he numbers and the tales they tell, American Christianity is hardly experiencing a Renaissance. But the rise of the “nones” does not equal its wide-scale collapse, either. A better description might be that we are witnessing the decline of “Christendom.” In this sense” Christendom” refers to the broader assumptions we imbibe, often without being fully aware, as a result of the influence of Christianity on the culture as a whole. Under Christendom,…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…34. [31] Carol Mason, “Opposing Abortion to Protect Women: Transnational Strategy since the 1990s,” Signs 44, no. 3 (April 1, 2019): 675. [32] For the full quote (in Russian), see Официальныйсайт Московского Патриархата, “О неприкосновенности жизни человека с момента зачатия,” December 27, 2023; For the Western coverage of the Holy Synod’s document (in English), see “Russian Synod Adopts Document, ‘On the Inviolability of Human Life from the Momen…

Godly Game or Godless Satire? Countering Biblical Ignorance with Heretical Humor

By Betsy Shirley

…eparable. Throughout this long history, religious games and toys are “evidence of the ways in which religious institutions and practioners use cultural trends to breathe new life back into their traditions.” Via phone, Norris explained that one of the ways play revives religion is through humor, an omnipresent way of dealing with the contradictions inherent in any institution. “When you bring two things together and you don’t know exactly how to r…

Gay, Christian, Pagan, Artist: How Matt Morris Defies the Borders of Spiritual Identity

By Jesse James DeConto

…nk that’s one thing I learned from being a Pagan and one thing perhaps I always instinctively understood. My journey is my journey and yours is yours. For me, closing the blog and shying away from a lot of interaction online was a way to keep that fire from raging. You spent a couple of months this year leading worship music at St. Andrew’s All Saints Episcopal Church in Portland and you’re playing at the Wild Goose Festival. What has made you fee…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…ppened to be gay and lesbian. So the coming of folks from Burma and their incorporation, and our incorporation into them, their incorporation into us so that we might be one church, laid the groundwork for us and it paved the way. When we began to have some conversations and began to discern how we were going to be in relationship with LGBT folks in spring of 2013 it became evident to me, and I think to others, that it was a pretty simple move to…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…ace. We’d made plans to meet up in case we got separated and had exchanged phone numbers. In the middle of the tawaf, the call to prayer came. The guards stopped the tawaf. Some people complied and started to form lines. I found a spot between two women, each with their husbands, and sat down on the line. This seemed an ideal spot until a woman in black niqab squeezed in on my left just as we started the prayer. Okay then. Before we had completed…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…atment of Bacon particularly inspiring or insightful.) There were other chance encounters: reading Georges Bataille’s Erotism for the first time and being utterly blown away. The release of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (and the almost complete absence of gender in commentary on the film). And, of course, wondering why so few people share my passion for reading Freud and trying to give an account of why I think he remains valuable to thin…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ple, ‘what do you mean?’ Even the word ‘God’—what do you mean by that? And you’ll talk to them and it’ll end up like ‘basically an old man in the sky who either gets involved or not.’ Well, no wonder it doesn’t work! And you just say ‘there are other ways to conceptualize the possible existence of a divine being.’ And sometimes that’s all you have to say.” I hope he’s right. Also on The Cubit: “As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…s of Black Rock City. Rather than paying or bartering for goods and experiences, participants are encouraged to give their resources, time, and creativity freely to one another. Event organizers also consistently refuse all offers of corporate sponsorship, believing that it would be antithetical to their vision for the event to do so. On the flipside, this means that participants and others sometimes misconstrue the “gift economy” ethos as requir…