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The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…r, in a contemporary way, what religion does. Fans mourning at the Staples Center over the loss of a sporting icon demonstrates, to many observers, that there’s a universal human need during these moments to express their grief and shock publicly and collectively. Although Bryant was a practicing Catholic, the ritual mourning and collective expressions center around a sports stadium and a sporting icon. Every day in other contexts religious people…

Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…ic theology held at the Institute in the basement of the St. John’s Newman Center residence halls right on campus. In some respects, of course, this agreement to offer theology courses in a public university may be controversial. However, it was never funded from departmental coffers. Even if we wanted to squabble about the cost of library Web space for electronic reserves and test booklets for exams, we would need to remember that the Religious S…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…ple’s Campaign that is also an important part of the history of the Kairos Center and its predecessor, the Poverty Initiative. Organizations like the Kairos Center have been building toward the new Poor People’s Campaign for many years, primarily through raising up grassroots leaders from the ranks of the poor and dispossessed, and connecting organizations and leaders across color lines and other lines of division in their many struggles to end po…

Park51 And The Roots of Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…mela Geller was the source of the Islamophobic fervor in opposition to the center, which threatens to linger over the midterm elections and has Democrats inexplicably running scared. Geller is a well-known agitator and propagandist, the proprietor of the Atlas Shrugs blog. Elliott carefully details her role in spinning the anti-center hysteria not just to her readers, but to press, most particularly the New York Post. While Geller is widely read w…

Trend Watch: “Progressive Christian”

By Daniel Schultz

…York, Eden Seminary in St. Louis, the Beatitudes Society, even the Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation (at least when its website is up and running), which is a progressive retreat center of sorts. That, if you can believe it, is just a quick and dirty list. I’ve probably missed somebody. But it’s sufficient to demonstrate a couple of things, I think. First, more people are willing to wear the “progressive” label as relates to their faith, not just…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ells a different story. It suggests that the proposed mosque and community center, which is modeled after the New York YMCA and Jewish Community Center, is a continuation of century-old efforts at community building and an attempt to represent Islam in lower Manhattan as American Muslims have understood and experienced it rather than through the actions of terrorists. The decision to allow the building of the mosques and community center is yet an…

I Believe You’re Wrong: The Trouble with Tolerance

By Charles Randall Paul and John W. Morehead

…ld Williams do about the current conflict over building a Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center? More than likely he would welcome the arrival of yet another venue where, after listening carefully to his opponents, he would be afforded the opportunity to persuasively preach his form of religion to anyone who didn’t get it right (that is, everyone but him). He would be less likely to think of the nearby crime scene as a bea…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?” It was this statement that finally got Steve King, the former Iowa Republican, stripped of his committee assignments in the House of Representatives. This wasn’t the first time he’d signaled sympathy for the far right—after all, he’d had a long history of ra…

Journalistic Blind Spots and the “Centrist-to-Liberal” Christian

By Mark Hulsether

…dramatizes the shifting balance of power between the evangelical right and center. Still, we might ask, how much of this shift results from people like FitzGerald paying attention to moderates who were there all along? Much of FitzGerald’s own evidence undermines her spin. She notes that a third of evangelicals voted for Bill Clinton; she might have added that nearly 30% supported Al Gore in 2000 and 60% voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. She is awar…

Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…ich it has become.” In a post titled “Help Expose the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Lively protests that he is “not the violent hatemonger they [the SPLC] portray me as.” Apparently, Lively has tried to get himself off the hate group list. But as he’s not willing to repudiate his theories about “the homosexual roots of the Nazi regime,” he’s going to be on the list for a while. Mark Potok, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern P…