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Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…ere in the temple at the time that that happened. There was no doubt in my mind or in the minds of my associates that what was revealed was the mind and the will of the Lord. Now I am told that racial slurs and denigrating remarks are sometimes heard among us. I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ.” But neither Hinckley nor any other Church official us…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…r they considered themselves Evangelicals, and so forth. Gallup said there might be 50 million American who are evangelicals, and journalists ran with that. It was a much higher number than had been assumed before, [which were based on counting members of those denominations within] the National Association of Evangelicals. In addition to changing the numbers, polling also changed political perception, [by implying] that evangelicals were a voting…

Archbishop Nienstedt Admits … No Wrong in Sexual Abuse Scandals; Pledges to Keep Doing What He Does

By Patricia Miller

…at many church officials have become practiced at when dealing with mushrooming sex abuse scandals: admit what they can no longer deny (but no more), deny any actual wrongdoing on the part of those charged with policing priests and abuse, and pledge a “new day” from here on in. In a statement, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said that Nienstedt continues to pretend that his deliberately deceptive behavior—over years—is just well-i…

Vatican Furiously Walks Back Pope’s Understatement of Sexual Abuse Problem

By Patricia Miller

…making any sexual advances and noted that none of the accusations “involve minors or illegal or criminal behavior.” (New slogan for the church: The sex that our celibate priests don’t have is consensual…and only with adults.) So interviews aren’t interviews, diocesan offices charged with protecting children are reportedly protecting their backs, and clerical defenders of “traditional” marriage have an alleged expansive history of (unmarried) homos…

Hopping on the Meditation Brandwagon: “Heartfulness” Makes Landfall in Los Angeles

By Anita Little

…action” videos from friends that pepper my inbox. Despite this, I was determined to approach the conference with an open mind (or open heart as they’d rather have me say). Kamlesh D. Patel at USC However, both Soni and Patel seemed curiously vague when discussing the most intriguing—and some might say eyebrow-raising—aspect of heartfulness, namely something called “yogic transmission,” or the “utilization of divine energy for the transformation of…

Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

…system is one of the things most clearly revealed through this crisis. The millions now being thrown into poverty are joining the millions more who were already confronting a threadbare social safety net that has been systematically undermined for decades, undergirded by a theological discourse about personal responsibility, work reconciliation, and the alleged depravity of poor people. From the start, the U.S. welfare system was constructed to de…

Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

By Daniel Schultz

…d, as Janet Smith, Professor of Moral Theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, recently wrote. “The problem of clergy abuse,” she wrote, “cannot be resolved simply by the resignation of some bishops, and even less so by bureaucratic directives. The deeper problem lies in homosexual networks within the clergy which must be eradicated.” These homosexual networks, which are now widespread in many dioceses, seminaries, religious orders,…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…is deeply rooted in American history. Referencing sociologists Christian Smith and Michael Emerson’s 2000 book Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Harper described a white evangelical church that is structured in such a way as to keep others out. It creates an alternative life for its congregants, one based on church growth models that create “huge churches full of nothing but white people, an enclavish cult…

To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd

By Joshua L. Lazard

…faith informed his social and political ethics in a segregated America. Benjamin Elijah Mays, a preeminent president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, was not only a noted scholar with a dissertation on the sociology of the Black Church, but also a well-known preacher whose Christian ethic publicly informed his role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Towering above all when it comes to notoriety and influence was Martin Luther King, who oc…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…d to decide the race of citizenship seekers. In making that judgment for immigrants from the Middle East, Islam often came into play. “Religion has always served as a proxy for racial identity,” said Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy who studies constructions of Arab and Muslim identity. “Individuals who were Muslim, up until 1944—a specific case—were rigidly deemed to be non-white and thus couldn’t become citizens…