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Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

By Sarah Posner

…olic Bishops said HHS had granted it exemptions from similar language. The new interim rule, then, seeks eliminate that negotiated exemption, and to codify the requirements for a full range of services. That codification would prevent “taxpayer money being used to harm others,” according to the American Civil Liberty Union’s Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling. In other words, the taxpayer money argument goes both ways: taxpayers who support thes…

The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…on Mall, and more recently, Oklahoma City, the Pentagon and Ground Zero in New York). Perhaps most important, the US civil religion boasts its own calendar of “secular” holidays. These days, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire calendar year: New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, President’s Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, and now, at long last, Thanksgiving Day. One of the inter…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…e remarkable and persistent magazine editor, Sarah Josepha Hale, also from New England. When New Englanders participated in the western expansion of settlements, they frequently campaigned to continue the thanksgiving tradition in their new locations. Hale became their most prominent national advocate, serving as the editor (she preferred “editress”) of Godey’s Ladies Book, the most widely read magazine of its time in the United States. Described…

Newt Gingrich, New Catholic, Presidential Hopeful

By Joanna Brooks

…at’s really up with his Catholic makeover? 1. Newt Gingrich has really, truly found a new religious lease on life. 2. Newt Gingrich is hoping evangelical social conservatives will forget their deep-seated anti-Papistry and love his new Jesus credentials. 3. Newt Gingrich is hoping the Latino base will forget the Republican’s deep-seated anti-immigrant politics and love his new Jesus credentials. 4. Mrs. Gringrich the third (the former Callist…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…well. Harriet Tubman’s hymnal, Collection of the Smithsonian A Los Angeles Times piece by Jaweed Kaleem accused the museum of giving Black Lives Matter but a small cameo in its exhibit. Were you satisfied with the museum’s representation of BLM or did you find it cursory? The museum wants to do justice to everything and everybody, but only has so much space. I know people will look at the museum and think we have a lot of space, but there’s so muc…

Yale Clings to Racist Legacy… And Cash. Lots of Cash.

By Peter Laarman

…DuBois’s take-them-down campaign was not very much on the minds of Yale’s trustees in May 1931. Their defiant response: name a gorgeous new gothically-crafted residential college for the man who epitomizes white supremacy, Sen. Calhoun. Calhoun College originally featured a large stained glass window with shackled slaves kneeling at Sen. Calhoun’s feet. The offensive part of that window was discreetly removed in 1992, but many smaller windows with…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…y and craft policies that could undo that historic harm. Predictably, this new policy has unleashed a new wave of anguish. Queer staff and students report feelings of “trauma,” “hurt,” “heartbreak” and “betrayal.” Since this spring, Oneida Chi, a former InterVarsity student leader in the 1990s has counseled close to 40 InterVarsity staff and students who feel traumatized by the new policy. Chi, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ visibility in the churc…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…people attending Latin Mass each week. Among them we can see the full spectrum of lasting reactions to the modernizing reforms of Vatican II, including the new Mass. Father Gordon and his Fraternal Society of St. Peter (FSSP) are offering the area’s only Latin Masses that have the approval of the Bishop, but only a minority of the county’s Latin Massgoers are attending St. Joan of Arc. Most attend the Immaculate Conception in Post Falls and the ot…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…uccessful elements, sometimes achieving a nonsectarian approach, but other times lapsing—sometimes considerably—into religious bias of the kinds noted by federal courts. The courses of twenty-one districts were thoroughly religious in nature, sometimes openly promoting particular beliefs. The most successful courses typically had several characteristics in common. They recognized that no single religious tradition had a monopoly on the Bible, but…

Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

By Jonathan Larsen

…stian event. “It is the heart of our Capitol, the heart of our democracy.” Word of the new location comes as tensions over the breakfast have reached historic levels, paralleling both the political rise of Christian nationalism and a growing willingness by some Democrats to confront it. This week alone has seen multiple examples of Republicans pushing conservative, theocratic religiosity into public spheres, and some Democrats increasingly standin…