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Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…. The impetus for the novel (which follows the story of a handmaid called Offred, because she’s assigned to a commander named Fred) was the seismic transformation in postwar American religion: the emergence, from hibernation, of fundamentalist Christianity as an active social and political force in the nation. Beginning in the 1970s, conservative white evangelicals began to organize and make demands across the public sphere. Their demands entailed…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…y last drop. They roll in the mud. They drink water. And their caretakers offer them leaves and their milk solution. They run along the rope and the tourists grow silent as they pet the curious pachyderms—a kind of awe at the ordinary life of these animals. One of the calves makes a grab with her trunk at the television crew’s camera hovering over her, just barely missing. The crowd giggles. A caretaker in a bright green jacket advises us not to p…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…marry, violated the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The decision, affirming an August 2010 ruling by US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, will almost certainly be appealed to the US Supreme Court. Today’s ruling states: All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the right to be granted marriage licenses and thus legally to use the designation of ‘marriage,’ which symbolized state legitimization and societa…

Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…: in the United States, participation in traditional religion was falling off rather hastily. “One in five adults now has no religious affiliation,” trumpeted the poll. Although the South, predictably, still contained the fewest number of “nones” compared to other regions, even this small southern band had increased from 12% to 15% in five short years. The Bible Belt was, at long last, losing its religion. The day after Pew announced its findings,…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…. Mark Takano, co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, kicked off an event sponsored by the LGBT Faith and Asylum Network (LGBT-FAN), a network of faith leaders, LGBT center staff, LGBT rights advocates, and people who work in refugee settlement. LGBT-FAN works to provide services and find support for asylum-seeking LGBT people who have experienced violence or persecution in their home countries based on their sexual orientation or ge…

An “Atheist Church” Schism

By Sarah Posner

…ckground on the Sunday Assembly, why atheists want church (or not), whether atheist churches need charismatic leaders, and what the future holds for these congregations….

Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…religion from whole cloth. “All religions were invented at some point,” I offered, reminding him that while Jesus may have assigned Peter to be the rock upon which the church would be built, it was up to everyone else to determine the details. It’s fascinating to watch the young (with a smattering of older) students invent a new belief system. I give them some guidelines: their religions must include some common elements such as doctrine, dogma, s…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…nal Journal’s Alex Seitz-Wald gives an overview of American evangelicals’ efforts to encourage passage of anti-gay laws around the world. Among the items mentioned is the work of Scott Lively and others to launch an anti-gay group in Latvia that believes “there is a war between Christians and homosexuals.” At the Religion News Service, Gay Clark Jennings, an Episcopal priest, examines “Homophobia in Christian Africa.” Jennings notes that many poli…

Maryland Nun: Most Catholics Disagree with Bishops on Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…Sister Jeannine Gramick of New Ways Ministry spoke at the Maryland Marriage Equality clergy press conference last week, in support of the bill introduced in the state legislature to legalize gay marriage. “I speak on behalf of the majority of U.S. Catholics who favor legal marriage for same-gender couples,” she said, adding that this position “flows from our own church’s social justice teaching.” Watch:…