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“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now

By Ed Simon

…of liberty, equality, and fraternity. These are the best of those French values, attacked this weekend. To paraphrase an American poet, there is nothing wrong with France that what’s right with France can’t fix. There is no figure that better embodies the French character than Montaigne, the writer who in many ways invented the modern person. A Catholic, he was horrified by the terror enacted in the Paris massacres. For him humanity is best if it…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…ality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests]. The legislation, introduced by Bernard Drainville, the Minister for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship, sought to affirm the religious neutrality of the state, in particular by prohibiting public sector employees, including those working in hospitals, schools, daycares, and universities, from wearing “conspicuous religious symbols” [signes ostentatoire…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…rtance of Christian service, forgiveness, and obedience, and offering spiritu*]}*al encouragement to families caring for children with disabilities. Which image is correct? The sharp split between two reflects a persistent divide in representations of Mormons. Nineteenth-century stereotypes depicting Mormons as secretive, deluded, and possibly dangerous persist, while contemporary Mormon efforts have promoted friendly, hardworking, family-oriented, we…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…orable wonders was a small group who called themselves the Sisters of Perpetu*]}*al Indulgence. On and off over the decades, I have thought of those drag nuns, rollerskating along the Castro, throwing flowers into the crowd (and kisses) and hooting and hollering with the best of them. Years later, when I co-edited Que(e)rying Religion with Gary David Comstock, I really wanted to have a picture of those nuns on the cover. To me, they were a vision of t…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…The California Democrat suddenly became uncharacteristically emotional, requesting that people tone it down, and recalling the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk as an outgrowth of the hate-filled discourse of its time. Warning that people might have to “take responsibility for any incitement that [the person’s words] may cause,” Pelosi could scarcely have come up with a better example t…

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ong or listening in about how to effectively argue against homophobes. Eventually, though, the exercise became painful; mainly because the “tie” Michaelson says he hopes to achieve is unreachable. Those who disagree with homosexuality, no matter how compassionate they may feel toward gays and lesbians, will never even agree that a “tie” can be reached. While I admire Michaelson’s attempt to redefine the battle over scripture by requiring “that peo…

In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…the Constitution running through your veins.” If the Constitution could actually flow through the human circulatory system, there’s one part I might imagine Sasse omitting: the Establishment Clause, or at least the Establishment Clause as interpreted by the Warren Court, whose church-state decisions of the early 1960s form the lynchpin of Sasse’s 2004 doctoral dissertation. It’s that dissertation, not the right’s adulation of their Ivy-educated e…

Why Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats

By Sarah Posner

…merican church, and in particular from business interests who found useful allies in religious leaders who helped define American evangelicalism as being against a government-provided social safety net. That’s not a view inherent to evangelicalism, though, as Bean found in the Canadian experience. What lessons lie in Bean’s findings for political organizers seeking to mobilize progressive faith communities, which have “thinner” identity formation…

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

By Michael Schulson

…t easy to classify the church that has emerged. In terms of theology and ritu*]}*al, its flavor is firmly pentecostal and charismatic: Church members receive baptism in the Holy Spirit as adults, undergo ritu*]}*al healings, and occasionally speak in tongues. Interior of the LLDM Temple. In its history, aesthetics, and social structure, though, Luz del Mundo’s closest relative is probably the Mormon Church. There are Catholic overtones in LLDM, odd echoes…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…e school), and who, for 20 years had traveled the world with them as “spiritu*]}*al counselor” and chaplain to the small city of technical, artistic, and support crew that tours with the band for months (and sometimes years) at a stretch. The Rev. Heaslip, known simply as “Father Jack,” was a subtle if stalwart omnipresence. He was known to walk the perimeter of each performance venue, praying for the band, yes, and their crew, but also for the people…