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Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…ll people. We want people to take another look at some old-school biblical stories, possibly add a woman’s lens to those stories and think about them from a liberating point of view. We’re looking forward to being a part of those conversations. In this new Trump era where anti-choice evangelicalism has reached these terrifying new heights, what are the next steps for your organization? How will you be mobilizing, how can people support you? What w…

Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…or from any non-Muslim religious rights organization. Conservative-leaning news sources that covered the stories minimized the employees’ concerns: one reported that the Wisconsin workers were fired for “violating a company break policy that doesn’t provide extra time for prayer,” while another called the Colorado incident “a Fake Tale of Anti-Muslim Discrimination.” Extremist website breitbart.com, typically a strong supporter of religious exempt…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…ogian Francis A. Schaeffer and the insurgent theocracy of Christian Reconstructionism developed by R.J. Rushdoony. This fascinating historic tour firmly establishes the foundation of the book’s main argument: that the Republican Party has been “shattered” by a right-wing political movement justifying its claim to secular power in theological arguments. Schaeffer’s view was that two incompatible philosophies were vying for power in the modern world…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…eives many pilgrims each day. They come from indigenous nations around the world, and there are many instances of sharing of food and resources. When I was there for the second time, for a few days this week, donations of food were rolling in heavily, firewood was delivered, and for the 9am orientation session inducting novices in the basics of the camp’s principles (indigenous leadership, no drugs, no violence, no unauthorized actions, no propert…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…al Catholic Reporter asked Francis what he would say to someone who “has struggled with their sexuality for years and feels that there is truly a problem of biology, that his aspect doesn’t correspond to what he or she feels is their sexual identity.” Francis replied that “Jesus surely doesn’t tell [people] to ‘go away because you are homosexual,’” and he elaborated on this point with a story of a trans Spanish man who had written the pope about h…

Mennonite in a Midlife Crisis (of Faith)

By Brittany Shoot

…any lived in Ukraine. Feeling a bit righteously selected to witness to the Russians and Jews, the Mennonites had an advantageous social standing to boot. Janzen illustrates her point with photos of wagons taken from a Mennonite pictorial history. Under the photos, the captions are some variant on the same theme: “A Mennonite covered wagon, unfamiliar among the Russians.” Only later, after mass migration to the US, did Mennonites become the social…

Evolution and Creation Fight to the Death: What Emerges from the Ashes

By Philip Clayton

…ll ask what it means to be human, who we are, and how we should act in the world. What stories will we tell about ourselves and the universe? Which of those stories are true and which are false? How should we tell them differently in light of the best empirical data and theories? This new discussion does not entail a different kind of science, though it does call for science without ideology. It does, however, call for a broader view of religion….

DNC Zombie Lie Count: 4

By Daniel Schultz

…the last day, I’ve spotted no less than four “zombie lies”—demonstrably untrue narratives that never seem to die—about Democrats and religion. I should really start tracking iterations of these stories and when they appear before the 2020 elections. Anyway, here’s what we’ve got so far, on day one of the convention: Being Pro-Choice Is Bad By far the biggest, hardest-hitting head-thumper to date is the idea that Democrats are alienating millions o…

The Sacred Myths of My People: A 4th of July Reflection

By Kate Blanchard

…exhibit called “Our Universes” about how “traditional knowledge shapes our world,” which included video storytelling as well as clothing, art objects, and household tools. At first this pleased me, in that it started from the understanding that “we” construct “our” universes through a complex interplay of inheritance and choice. Lakota, Quechua, and Anishnaabe peoples, for example, live in distinct universes that have been shaped over time through…

The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips

By Andrew Aghapour

…meaningful and transformative to you?” We also create narratives and tell stories. This is another way of understanding that doesn’t require appeals to the truth in the same way that explanation does. This way of understanding [involves] emotional patterns. Supernatural explanations may appeal to this side of human nature. They certainly do so much better than the kind of dry, false-memory type of explanation that I was talking about earlier. In…