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Will Anti-Gay Churches Have Their Tax Exempt Status Revoked?

By Sarah Posner

…y doubt that racial discrimination in education violates deeply and widely accepted views of elementary justice.’ We have not reached this deep consensus on sexual orientation discrimination.” What’s more, Corbin added, the Supreme Court ruling in the Bob Jones case “confined its holding to religious schools and suggested that its ruling may not apply to churches,” as the Court noted, “We deal here only with religious schools—not with churches or…

Mormons’ Puzzling Indifference to Easter

By Holly Welker

…nothing in our meetings that day directly acknowledged the atonement, the crucifixion, or the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Mormon indifference to Easter can puzzle pretty much everyone who stops to think about it: Mormons, post-Mormons, non-Mormons. I doubt mine is the only post today or this week addressing the strange situation. (Jana Riess wrote about it on Ash Wednesday.) The church has created media to encourage people to think more of Easte…

The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them

By Carlos Wilton

…hildren and grandchildren of their own. (“See Dick. See Dick run. See Dick run away from church.”) Back then, the cultural mainstream proclaimed that God was firmly installed in the churches and all was right with the world. (Except for the Godless Communists. But we knew our hymns were the talisman that kept them at bay.) “American Christianity—especially its Mainline Protestant variety—has largely forgotten how to seek out and visit the ad hoc p…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…but rather concerned “a whole bundle of social traits—education, civics, trust, crime, governance structure, different conceptions of order and power and freedom”—persist today, nearly four centuries later, among the descendants of these colonists in the different regions of the US where they initially settled. “In America,” he explains in one example, “Swedish Americans tend to be more civic than French Americans, who are more civic than Italian…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…ing able to do “many things better than men,” as he did on the papal plane today, why can’t he conceive of one of those things being the priesthood? Pope Francis repeated again today his idea of the “feminine dimension” of the Catholic church being represented by Mary, and also said once again that Mary is “more important” to the spirituality of the church than the apostles on Pentecost. What the pope is neglecting to acknowledge, however, is that…

RDBook: There is Nothing New About the New Atheism

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…lorification of man on the mind. Christopher Lasch’s question is as urgent today as it was when he posed it 18 years ago in his book The True and Only Heaven How does it happen that serious people continue to believe in progress, in the face of massive evidence that might have been expected to refute the idea of progress once in for all? Reitan raises in separate chapters the key arguments that atheists have used or attacked, including theories of…

Court Rules in Favor of For-Profit Employer Seeking Exemption from Contraception Rule

By Sarah Posner

…s attempts to drive religious activity from the public square and confine it within the four walls of a church.” But Brigitte Amiri, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project countered, “That is a gross exaggeration of today’s ruling, which was limited to one company and temporary. We hope that as the case progresses that the courts will ensure that employers cannot use their religion to discriminate, and that all women have…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…eavals going on around it. The diversity of religiously interested fiction today is astounding. The novels I examine involve themes of religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. [Fiction] writers today are our version of Hebrew and classical prophets: they try to speak to society, to diagnose our social and spiritual condition. I read…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…lated with German societal and cultural reckoning, then one can see their fruits in Germany today. Last month, following a number of horrid, hateful slogans chanted at Jews (in the context of otherwise legitimate protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza), and a number of violent incidents, there was a large public vigil in Berlin to protest anti-Semitism. Among the attendees were German President Joachim Guack, members of Germany’s parliament, lea…

The Only Common Denominator of American Conservatism is Anti-Blackness

By Yannick Marshall

…d ended up in white hands because of the “white work ethic” or that Reconstruction’s Black farms found today in white pockets got there fair and square. They will believe that the reason Harriett Tubman’s image will not appear on U.S. currency as planned is that the current administration has concerns about counterfeiting. Or that a president who bought an ad calling for the murder of exonerated Black youth and who, according to a family member, u…