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On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

By Betty M. Bayer

…gender, comparing the Stanton and Douglass debate to the Clinton and Obama run for president. Not a word was mentioned on religion or the place of religion in either of these historic civil rights struggles—a surprising omission given how these same candidates (and the nation) invoked religion when they did not want to reveal their support, or lack thereof, on issues such as gay and lesbian rights (including marriage). Today, with another presiden…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…ikened to “Oriental,” “Asiatic,” “Turkish,” and “Mohammedan” peoples. Even today, more than 120 years after the prophet Wilford Woodruff officially disavowed the practice of polygamy, the media routinely conflates the LDS Church with Mormon fundamentalists (more properly called fundamentalist believers in late-period Joseph Smith). In this historical context, The Book of Mormon is light, sweet stuff. It demonstrates the attenuation of anti-Mormoni…

Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

By Cathleen Falsani

…iology professor at Eastern University in Pennsylvania while traveling the world teaching and preaching, is the evangelical world’s Jon Stewart to Graham’s more reserved, buttoned-down David Letterman. He has no poker face, wears his heart on his lapel like a prom boutonniere, and is known to weep, spit, and/or sweat profusely while he preaches. (Maybe that makes him the DeVito to Graham’s DeNiro?) When Campolo came to preach at Wheaton, as he oft…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…keep returning. It offers a conclusion that brings me some chastened hope today: The most troublesome task of a reform President was that of bringing the Senate back to decency. This is the lesson I hope our current president can bring himself to learn after this midterm election. Not more coddling of old and new right-running Republican legislators. There has been enough of that already, and he has reaped a bitter harvest. He has emboldened some…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…very day! Raquel: There are certainly many things to be concerned about in today’s political reality. However, the things that trouble us today are the continuation of the very same things that plagued our society during the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush senior, Reagan administrations, and beyond. Racism is not new. Misogyny is not new. Xenophobia is not new. Our government’s continued alliances with fascists and theocrats? Not new. The things margin…

#Churchtoo: Apology of Evangelical Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault Shows Why Sorry Isn’t Enough

By Jessica Johnson

…overwhelming support shown by white evangelicals for the likes of Donald Trump and Roy Moore, they distinguish the “true” from the false evangelicals via “theological criteria,” which they use as a shield and weapon. However, the public performance by pastors Savage and Conlee serves as a stark, ugly example of the self-serving limitations of the generalized, 4-point theological criteria. Such a list of characteristics does not suffice for determ…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…e, this study uses them as windows into the incalculable sites of the construction, dissemination, and practice of yoga. I had to carefully select from case studies in my effort to demonstrate that the postural practice we most associate with yoga today underwent global popularization as it coincided with transnational cultural developments. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? Given that we see yoga practically everywher…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…l, and economic liberty.” King’s, a Christian school rescued from near bankruptcy in 1998 by Campus Crusade for Christ, now boasts 400 students and is hoping to double that number within a few years. The college proclaims that it “educates students to lead with principle as they aspire to make America better. We prepare students for principled leadership. And nothing else.” But King’s made headlines in September after its new president, the conser…

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…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…strengthen our military.” Of course, none of those fears came to pass. As today’s Pentagon study notes: “[B]y 1953, 95 percent of all African-American soldiers were serving in racially integrated units, while public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities were still racially segregated.” AFA’s talking points on the trumped-up religious freedom issue are still having an effect on those who have a vote in the repeal. Even Democratic Senator…