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Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…abbis was about $140,000, Catholic priests averaged $25,000 and Protestant ministers $40,000. Should we begrudge them the opportunity to save a little money? To my mind, the more intriguing suit was filed by American Atheists, who want the IRS to require churches and religious organizations to fulfill the same obligations as other nonprofit groups. Currently most nonprofits are required to file Form 990, “Return of Organization Exempt from Income…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…tigating the activities of six televangelists, including Copeland, to determine whether they were misusing their tax-exempt ministries for profit. Copeland didn’t cooperate with the investigation, and used his connections to fight back, claiming that then-presidential candidate Mike Huckabee provided assurances he would “stand with” him. Copeland had long enjoyed relationships with Republican candidates, including former presidents George H.W. Bus…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…erpretations completely alien to my experiences of the tradition through family and swamis, the Hindu communities I was a part of, trips to India, and my own reflective readings.” Shukla explains that “while there always have been and now are a growing number of scholars who are committed to presenting emic understandings of Hinduism, we find each year that the ‘in crowd’ created by Doniger at the AAR has yet to shift in terms of power and influen…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a conservative Jew. He then offers clues as to why he targeted fellow Norwegians, even though he claims to lov…

US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…grassroots power to bring politicians to task on justice issues from economic inequality to immigration reform. On the other side, stands a male hierarchy that has wielded conventional political influence and spent considerable money on issues from marriage equality to abortion. Uncomfortable conference rooms aside, it is possible to read between the lines of both the official and unofficial messages that slipped out of the LCWR conference: The s…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…have been organized around it, but it is almost invisible outside the academic world because the text is nearly 800 pages of dense, jargon-filled prose.” Rest assured, we do not need to read Taylor for ourselves because David Brooks can be trusted. His ongoing effort to distill for us the density of jargon is a choice well-honed. The result: a column that we have chosen to read (again, wisely) and, moreover, a readerly choice that becomes a sign t…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…hat fixated on his personal feelings about becoming president, “repeatedly minimizing Trump’s most dangerous promises as mere campaign talk.” The description of the media’s treatment of president-elect Trump as a normalizing tactic leads me to ask: why would they do this? How can they say that the anti-Trump protesters just don’t understand who Trump is, which is what he said to Stahl when asked about the people protesting him. Exactly how are his…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…1990s after several high-profile child sexual abuse cases resulted in multimillion dollar payouts to victims and their families. The Mormon Alliance, a grassroots Mormon organization that monitored abuse within the Church, published a study documenting negligence on the part of local members and leaders in addressing abuse—and even the excommunication of some victims and accusers. In 1995, the Church established stronger guidelines and new protoco…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…—body, life, circumstances, the whole deal—better than does the average voter, even a well-meaning voter who doesn’t like to think about pregnancies being terminated. So. In light of that, might I suggest that framing this exhaustively in terms of innocent fetuses and guilty fathers is… maybe not as compassionate as I hope we all try to be? …

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…ne writing that its “passionate and unruly explosion of Americana” that “reminds us not just of the unlimited possibilities of outside cinema, but of something true and intrinsic within ourselves.” Others have withheld such adulation citing the film’s “screw-tightening methods,” smothering musical score, and “a distrustworthy slickness reminiscent of a British Petroleum oil spill clean-up commercial.” Much of the applause is directed at the film’s…