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Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…ed that they were speaking for the American Jewish community at large. The center endorsed enthusiastically the Bush administration’s Iraq War, and in 2006 it dubbed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez an anti-Semite. A museum of tolerance: a center for human dignity built over a graveyard? The very idea seems grotesque. Is this a sick joke? It seems not. It is a political statement: All issues in Jerusalem will be decided by the Israeli government,…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…nd youth groups. So many believers have rearranged their practice that the Center for the Study of Religion in American Culture has partnered with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media to sponsor Pandemic Religion: a crowdsourced collection of images, videos, and other evidence of the religious response to the COVID-19 crisis. Contributors offer glimpses of spiritual life at home: makeshift communion tables, a Zoom LifeGroup meeting,…

Judge Denies Church Graduation Ceremonies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hool graduation was held in the school’s auditorium, but the Baccalaureate service was held at the First Baptist Church in my hometown—the church where I was a member. At that service I learned an important lesson: my church was not as open as I thought it was, nor was my own mind. My high school was actually majority black—but my church was 100 percent white. As we prepared for the service that night, I did a double take when a black woman, the m…

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…r colleagues, reopens her mentor’s former clinic as the South Wind Women’s Center, that fight begins again. Full-Spectrum Care South Wind Women’s Center is now housed in a building so central to Wichita’s recent history that it’s often referred to simply by its street address: 5107 E. Kellogg Drive. The clinic is a flat-roofed, largely windowless structure, partially enclosed by a tall wooden fence and fronting on a busy road that doubles as a sta…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…de to the play. Show me why I’m doing this rather than going to the actual service at my local church a few blocks away. But writers with time to kill are not the kind of people Trinity Church is after with the Twitter play, according to Hanick. They want to reach the folks who would love to go to a service but can’t, who have to run around frantically all day with nothing but a Blackberry and imagination available to mark this most solemn day, wh…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…s an example of exactly that, and it doesn’t represent my service, nor the service of the many people I worked alongside. Most of the enemy fighters I encountered throughout my service were avowed Muslims. I am an avowed Christian. I know that Jesus is my lord savior. However, I was there neither on behalf of my God nor to battle against theirs. Far from being there to impose our own religion on foreign country, we were there to battle the resurge…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat chaplains “will not be required to perform a religious role…in worship services, command ceremonies, or other events, if doing so would be in variance with the tenets or practices of their faith.” At the same time, regulations state that “Chaplains care for all Service members, including those who claim no religious faith, facilitate the religious requirements of personnel of all faiths, provide faith-specific ministries, and advise the comman…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…liefs, they are required to support the “free exercise of religion” of all servicemembers and their families, and enter service with the knowledge that they will serve “a religiously diverse population.” In any case, if there is disproportionate opposition to repeal among chaplains, it’s a trend that was created by the effort to recruit evangelical chaplains who opposed open service by gays and lesbians. If it’s unconstitutional for them to prosel…

Expansion of “Conscience Clause” Could Redefine Birth Control as Abortion

By Kathryn Joyce

…caid, and Medicare Advantage). Similarly, we propose that the term “health service” means any service so provided. The total number of health care entities affected by the new proposal is 584,294, and includes 8,494 Residency Programs (accredited), 4,578 Health Insurance Carriers and 3rd-Party Administrators, 58,109 Pharmacies, 76,088 Grant awards, 57 State and territorial governments, 92 Pharmacy Schools, 2651 Nursing Schools, 234,200 Physicians…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…s of church: a community of friendly, generous, caring men and women. Some customers, comparing the store to their congregation, even found the latter wanting. Wal-Mart epitomized Christian service and, thanks to its homely displays and low prices, did not hallow the kind of conspicuous consumption common to many malls, gallerias, and shopping districts across the country. If anything, Wal-Mart sanctified a sort of stylized frugality, bringing the…