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Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…d. Awesome. If you’re curious about life in a polygamous community you can skip putting Sister Wives or Big Love in your NetFlix queue and instead take the “Polygamy Experience” bus tour through Colorado City, Arizona. Not only is President Obama a Christian, but, according to his wife, he always carries a picture of Mary Help of Christians in his wallet. Elsewhere in Washington, the National Cathedral is getting a new cathedral cat. Catherine of…

White Protestants in Decline

By Peter Laarman

…d go directly to RD senior editor Sarah Posner’s fine Guardian article and skip this one. Sarah writes persuasively that while creaky Protestant panjandrums will still push cultural warfare in league with equally senescent Catholic hierarchs (via their nefarious new “religious freedom” axis), the more interesting and welcome news relates to what is happening among the 18-29 year-old set: the millennials. Here, white evangelicals make up only 13%…

SCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess

By Andrew L. Seidel

…cation of legal principle and intelligent reason to the case, one needs to skip to the sixty-seventh page, to Ginsburg’s dissent with Sotomayor. “Decades ago, this Court recognized that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution demands governmental neutrality among religious faiths, and between religion and nonreligion,” she wrote. “Precisely because the cross symbolizes these sectarian beliefs, it is a common marker for…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…re that the majority of the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls chose to skip the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, citing deep disappointment in the treatment of Palestinians. However, as Kamala Harris’ photo-op with California AIPAC leaders (taken after committing to not attending the conference) suggests, this may be more about the preservation of optics for the sake of a high-stakes campaign. https://twitter.c…

Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…ne should care about reconciliation—but reconciliation of this sort. And everyone should reject calls to come together that seek to skip every single one of these steps….

Citizens United’s Bad Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ehash of anti-Obama-isms: he promised to unite the country, but stood with Skip Gates and Trayvon Martin. He promised to fix the economy, but he goes on vacation while your house is being foreclosed upon. He’s brought us socialism (health care reform), infringement of religious liberty (ditto), and, the film falsely suggests, was the mastermind of the financial industry bailouts that occurred while George W. Bush was still in office. It’s compose…

Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…experience incredible times of struggle along the way.” And, we can’t just skip by the jab at gay and lesbian Christians who are obviously living on “our terms” and not God’s terms when we reconcile our sexuality and spirituality. I’d like to give Merritt some really good news: you don’t have to “struggle,” because your sexual orientation is not “baggage,” it’s a blessing. This idea of the Christian life as “struggle” with “baggage” is a ruse to k…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…would not be a school for atheists. The idea horrifies him. A child should skip down an idiosyncratic intellectual path. “I am almost pathologically afraid of indoctrinating children,” he says. “It would be a ‘Think for Yourself Academy.’” Dawkins is expanding on a point made in his 2006 bestseller, The God Delusion: There is no such thing as a Christian child, only a child of Christian parents. The same, Dawkins says, goes for all religious and p…

Claremont and the Agony of the Seminaries

By Daniel Schultz

…ailable.) And while education costs rise, clergy pay isn’t undergoing a similar increase, in part because there are more smaller congregations who can’t afford to keep a full-time minister. That leads many clergy to become bi-vocational and/or skip seminary, or find alternative routes to ordination, such as correspondence courses or lay academies. All in all, it’s a tough market. As the LA Times points out, it’s led to some consolidation and some…

How To: Write a Science-Explains-Religion Op-Ed

By Andrew Aghapour

…ost religious people won’t read this far, and scientists and atheists will skip past the introduction to get to the juicy, hard science. 2. Get to the juicy, hard science. Promise the reader that there are robust, objective new studies that have empirically proven exactly where religion comes from and how it operates. This is what your reader wants, so give it to them as fast as you can! You can just copy the sentence before last… really, it’s tha…