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When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

Historian Colin Chapell’s latest book explores gender in the South through the lens of the Holiness movement. What inspired you to write Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him? I am fascinated by the ways in which people’s religious beliefs change how they see and understand the world around them. Of course, to the faithful, this is axiomatic—they expect their faith to change their worldview. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, I had not seen many scholar…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…rizer, entrepreneur, and guru B. K. S. Iyengar died on Wednesday in the Indian city of Pune at the age of 95. The “Lion of Pune” had a robust persona that will be greatly missed, not only by family and friends, but also by countless students across the world. Students revered him for his fiercely confident, direct, and demanding guidance at his Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune and far beyond. Iyengar’s widespread influence can be a…

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…uctive age now lack access to legal abortion in the state. While the law claims to offer exceptions for medical emergencies, rape, incest, and fatal fetal anomalies, these exceptions are so vaguely written they’ll be virtually impossible to access. A Planned Parenthood-led lawsuit successfully blocked the law’s implementation since Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature approved the ban over a year ago, but the state’s Supreme Court ended the re…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…in 1964. Why have Mormons rejected Trump? As Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins explained over the weekend, while Mormons are overwhelmingly Republican they diverge from the party’s base on several important issues that have animated Trump’s campaign. In contrast to Trump’s extreme immigration proposals, for example, the LDS Church has long pushed for compassionate immigration reform and Mormons generally hold pro-immigrant views. When Trump proposed a ban…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…abuse scandal, which had Boston at its epicenter. That’s a pretty low bar, but of course no one denies that Francis is a change for the better. As Jon O’Brien, head of Catholics for Choice, told The Guardian, Francis isn’t so much “a breath of fresh air as someone who has gone into the Vatican with an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He’s got the church out of a very difficult spot.”…

My Business, Myself: Piercing the Corporate Veil

By Howard M. Friedman

…religious organizations, including Catholic hospitals and religiously-affiliated colleges, have objected to offering birth control services through their insurance plans. The narrow exemption in the original rules, which were not broad enough to cover Catholic schools like Notre Dame, is undergoing a reevaluation. However, in addition to objections by religious non-profits, more than a dozen for-profit small businesses have filed lawsuits objectin…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…urch spokespeople stressed that Conference this year would be a routine affair, attentive Conference observers noticed signs that the Church is aware of what the media has called “the Mormon Moment:” an intensity of public attention driven largely by the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. Political watchers’ ears pricked up on Saturday afternoon when J. Willard Marriott and Jon Huntsman Sr. were among a group of LDS Church off…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

Half the fight against bigotry, to paraphrase Woody Allen, might just be in showing up. When Abraham Hassan stood up at Thursday night’s CNN debate, he introduced himself as a Palestinian-American and a Republican. Plainly, that’s not what I expected to hear. Like any decent observer of the Republican race, I was irritated by Gingrich’s dismissal of the Palestinians, so hearing Hassan immediately got me excited. But what happened next, between hi…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…debt, religion, military excursions, the personal conduct of elected officials, political party affiliation and other putative conservative concerns than they have on the treatment of Black people. The through line of American conservatism has been the work towards the increased injury of Black people at each stage of U.S. history. Whether it’s come to slavery, Jim Crow, convict leasing, incarceration, policing, voting rights or healthcare, the d…

New Poll Reveals That Anti-Trans Rhetoric isn’t Just Affecting Republicans and White Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…o prominence with her powerful and authentic portrayal of trans inmate Sophia Burset in Netflix’s hit Orange is the New Black, which aired from 2013-2019. Cox’s work was truly groundbreaking in terms of on-screen trans representation and helped educate the public about the realities of trans experience. Meanwhile, Caitlyn Jenner came out in 2015, and while her right-wing Christian politics were and remain awful, her coming out generated a great de…