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We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…eteronormative uncontracepted sex in monogamous marriage.” Sections 243 and 299 would also disappoint any divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion openly. Pope Francis says they should be treated with care and kindness and respect, but he stops short of giving them access to receiving Communion. He offers the same condescension to LGBT Catholics in Section 250 when he says should be treated with care, kindness and respect, bu…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…t of us today. Grappling with that reality is one of the challenges of the book. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are hundreds! Let me name two. First’s there’s Jill Lepore’s The Name of War. It’s the book that is the most direct (I hope not derivative) influence on Race and the Making of the Mormon People, especially in its analysis of the relationship between the written word and the construction of racia…

Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

By Paul Rosenberg

…eligion Foundation told RD. Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, agreed. “We think this opinion is unconstitutional, that this violates the religious freedom and the separation of church and state,” Luchenitser said. They’re not alone. A retired senior Department of Defense attorney called the opinion “highly strained” at best. Religious freedom “doesn’t mean that you can proselytize i…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…slim-majority countries have written to me asking if they can purchase the book as an internet file or an e-book, because their country censors book purchases and deliveries through the post. I have not yet worked this out with the publisher Oneworld Publications, but hope to do so, considering the political situation in many Muslim-majority countries and the tenuous privacy that people have within their families. I believe that—for better or for…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…s to continue. Presidential candidates continue to extol the virtues of this nation and the God-directed values that supposedly animate the country. Americans continue to be enamored with and active consumers of sports and military-based products and ideals. While Americans venerate sports heroes and dead soldiers, the stories continuing to unfold at both Penn State and Dover Air Force Base demonstrate that there really is something “rotten” here…

Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society

By Jason Josephson Storm

…so I discovered that the sociological data suggested that the majority of Americans believe in ghosts or demons. Indeed, a surprising 73% of Americans have at least one paranormal belief, and while the data is less robust it looks like there are similar belief patterns in Western Europe. At the very least, it seems hard to argue that the “modern West” is straightforwardly disenchanted. So I asked myself how did we get the notion that “modernity”…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…on the other side. When he and his brother Peter Lalonde first turned the best-selling books into movies, they argued it wasn’t possible to make Left Behind in a way that would appeal both to people who were waiting for the rapture and people who thought the whole thing was preposterous. You couldn’t do both. They made the movie cheap and released it to the home market. It only had a limited run in theaters the following year Peter Lalonde said s…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…ed to a smaller venue (600 seats) and ticket sales remained low even after ticket prices were cut in half. There were still probably 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door….

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…Newspaper and the Chosen Nation is that, in the decades leading up to the American Civil War, black Americans used their newspapers to not only proclaim their status as God’s chosen nation on Earth, but to then apply that faith in black chosenness to a range of on-the-ground struggles for black liberation. So I hope that readers of the book not only come away with a better understanding of the contours of black chosenness, but also with a sense o…

Virtual Book Burning and Its Consequences

By Laurie Patton

…ayed ignorance of the contents of the Qur’an (an all-too-frequent trait of book burners), he intuitively knew that book burning could involve all three aspects of this complex symbol. It could be a politically purifying act on the part of the dominant institution, a way of clarifying religious canon, as well as an act of protest on the part of a religious minority. And in his rhetoric, Jones used all three stances involving the symbolism of the bo…