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Christian-Bashing Air Force Officer Story is Just That

By Rob Shryock

…uendo masquerading as fact. “Air Force Cracking Down on Christians,” a Fox News piece by the same author as the Fox article mentioned previously, shows that he’s more upset than ever about the Air Force’s investigation into Monk, an investigation that, ironically, his own poor reporting directly contributed to. As of September 10th, the original article stands without correction. With stories like these it can be difficult to tell whether the reli…

Atheists Who Don’t Like “Under God” Can Leave

By Rob Shryock

…place in his broad vision of American religion, emphasizing in 1957 the “fruitful relationship” between Christians and Muslims, which was quite progressive for the time. Unfortunately, Eisenhower’s idea of the religious basis of American Democracy has historically denied true political legitimacy to atheists. And even as American atheism has been totally disassociated with communism, the idea that atheists aren’t real Americans has persisted. …

Can Jewish Funds for Justice Oust Glenn Beck?

By Joanna Brooks

…campaign delivering more than 10,000 letters calling for Beck’s ouster to Rupert Murdoch at Fox News headquarters. Last April, JFSJ launched a “twitterstorm” against Beck’s comments on social justice. And as we reported here at RD last fall, JFSJ first voiced strong concern about Beck’s anti-semitism in response to Beck’s malicious attack on Holocaust survivor George Soros, who Beck called a “Puppet Master” and accused of conspiring with Nazis….

Doubting Ourselves Through the AZ Shooting

By Julie Ingersoll

…sm of it. But I’m guessing few readers of RD know what those who get their news from Fox News know: there was a similar fundraising appeal from the Democratic Leadership committee in 2004, only with bullseyes instead of crosshairs. I am sympathetic to the counter-arguments that it not the same because liberals don’t bring guns to rallies and so on but debating who is right about this gets us nowhere. Worse yet, we end up sounding like kindergarten…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…st response to this tweet comes from another RD contributor, Sarah Morice Brubaker, who tweeted: “*pinches bridge of nose, sighs heavily* A social construct, being social, exist[s] in some contexts and not others. Jesus was a 1st c. Palestinian Jew so he didn’t have white privilege, a signature style, a favorite country song, or an opinion about the designated hitter.” https://twitter.com/smoricebrubaker/status/1287922127870537735 It remains uncle…

On Historic “Decision Day,” SCOTUS Sends LGBT Americans Mixed Messages

By Sunnivie Brydum

…sagree with.” But that wasn’t even the clearest signal the high court gave today that it’s ready to reconsider the weight granted to legal claims of “religious freedom.” In a not-unexpected decision issued today in favor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbus, Missouri, seven justices concluded that a state program that reimbursed organizations which used scrap tire rubber to resurface playgrounds, but denied those grants to religious institutions…

In Marriage Decision, An Ode to Love and Four Provocations

By Sarah Posner

…ves and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons. In turn, those who believe allowing same sex marriage is proper or indeed essential, whether as a matter of religious conviction or secular belief, may engage those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate. The Constitution, however, does not permit…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…to bury them. That’s the English-language edition of Turkey’s top-selling newspaper; the story is big news in Turkish, too. It means something different to people here. Today, while we fly to Sarajevo, Istanbul’s Taksim Meydanı—think Cairo’s Tahrir Square—will see the gathering of over 8,000 pairs of shoes in a memorial honoring each person who died at Srebrenica. Even the country’s Prime Minister has sent a pair in. The connections between Turke…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…this week and as was hinted at in the Church’s own statement and a Deseret News editorial today—by the need to create an endowment capable of sustaining the global physical infrastructure of Mormonism (temples, churches, universities) even as the bulk of the Church’s population shifts to the global south and tithing revenues flatline or even drop. This is no simple Creflo Dollar morality tale. This is story about history and global patterns of we…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…tion? Must religious protesters be arrested? Many current protesters are already in a position of risk and precarity with respect to the law. What is incumbent on religious protesters today is not just to fill up the jails, but to multiply. The Berrigans created their audience by being paid attention. And this is what religious protesters are doing brilliantly today: in protests, online, in their communities, even in their classrooms. The strategi…