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Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…a scholar of religion and my autoethnography, it’s become clear that we suffer from a taxonomic problem when it comes to religion; namely, making the most central question about whether or not we believe in God. Throughout my life in the United States, the first question I’m asked about religion is: “Do you believe in God?” I use the word god in the singular, as this is the default manner in which I’m asked the question. My answer often confuses…

What Religion Looks Like, Wisconsin Edition

By Kim Bobo

…the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, wrote: The church is well aware that difficult economic times call for hard choices and financial responsibility to further the common good. Our own dioceses and parishes have not been immune to the effects of the current economic difficulties. But hard times do not nullify the moral obligation each of us has to respect the legitimate rights of workers. The Reverend Bruce Burnside, Bishop of the South-Central Sy…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…uilding is not large, and the sound system is powerful. At times, it was difficult to distinguish between the keening of the few dozen worshippers around me and the piped-in wailing of the multitudes in Guadalajara. Forty-five minutes later, I stepped outside to get some air. Standing 30 feet away, under a full moon, you could still hear the worshippers crying for their dying apostle. When I left at around 2 a.m., a devoted group of North Carolini…

Conservative Christians: Think Twice Before Claiming ‘Islam Is Not a Religion’

By Chad Bauman

…t,” and in some cases require that potential converts register with local officials beforehand. While most religious people would agree that conversions by force, fraud, and allurement are undesirable, the impossibility of defining these terms precisely and the vulnerability of the Indian police apparatus to pressure and bias have led to such laws being used to regularly harass Christian evangelists, priests, pastors, and catechists even for doing…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…gion thing? Dead, according to 2018. Young people around the world are disaffiliating from religious faith. Surprisingly or perhaps not, American youngs are leaving evangelical Christianity more quickly than other Christian brands, perhaps because of its full-throated embrace of conservative politics. The trend has been good for at least one segment of the religious ecology, though. The Ex-vangelical movement, in part led by Religion Dispatches co…

From Alito Activism to Sloppy Lemons: 3 Takeaways From the Bladensburg Cross Oral Argument

By Andrew L. Seidel

…that day, representing the American Humanist Association and other plaintiffs challenging a 40-foot-tall Christian cross. On the side of that cross was arrayed a massive force: the solicitor general, bringing to bear the full weight of the United States government; a partner from Jones Day, the world’s fifth-largest law firm, representing the American Legion, which is the nation’s largest military veteran organization (Jones Day was pulled into t…

Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously

By Chrissy Stroop

…ve Christian commentator Bonnie Kristian would have it, Democrats find it offensive when an elected Republican like Rep. Madison Cawthorn brags about converting Muslims and Jews. (In my view, proselytizing is always objectification, and it should offend the sensibilities of those who embrace pluralism.) No, our conversation about Christianity is unserious precisely because it tends to start from a place of unacknowledged Christian privilege, thus…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…ms that these ventures, led by white men, have failed to hire a diverse staff of reporters and editors. Much of the criticism was pointed at shortcomings and even abject cluelessness about hiring women and people of color. But one hire—Vox’s writing fellow Brandon Ambrosino—sparked a side conversation about newsroom religious diversity, and the media’s coverage of religion. First, here’s the history, in brief. At the Guardian on Wednesday, Emily B…

New Challenges to Gay Marriage Bans From Within States & Denominations

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lenging those states’ laws against marriage equality. At least one county official in Pennsylvania is joining the fight. Montgomery County’s register of wills, D. Bruce Hanes, began issuing marriage licenses in the state. On the church side of the equation, in a little-noticed move by much of the media (and even hard to find on their own website), The Disciples of Christ voted at its general assembly in Orlando, Florida this month to affirm LGBT p…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…t hazard posed by religion is that religious people really like burning stuff. Whether they are burning incense or firecrackers or logs or paper or pieces of cardboard put together to resemble a small house, religious believers around the globe can’t seem to get enough of using fire to celebrate their traditions. When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide Jay Wexler Beacon Press March…