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Standing Up for Contraception Education in Utah

By Joanna Brooks

…o pressure from a broad coalition of Utah families and vetoed a controversial bill that would have outlawed discussion of contraception in tenth-grade health education classes. Utah already has a conservative approach to sexual education that allows school districts to choose “abstinence only” curriculum or “abstinence-based” curriculum that includes basic information about contraception. House Bill 363 aimed to ban all discussion of contraception…

Who Cares about what Augustine had to Say about Akin and Rape?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ed by Lincoln Cullen’s post.) And if the interview prompted something for you, please do share it in the comments. Once again, thank you—to Drs. Burrus and Laqueur, and to everyone else who chimed in in a non-shouty fashion. The notion that people can still get excited by talking about Augustine and/or early modern notions of sexual difference, to say nothing of the evidence that the internet can foster really high-level discussion… well, it did…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…ose. Although their application says it’s for people interested in Islam, will they allow anyone to register? Does that include people from the Islamophobia Industry? Or the Ahmadiyya community? Turkey, which is a predominately Sunni country, is an odd place to register the “.shia” gTLD from. (More logical choices would have been Iran, Iraq, or Lebanon, where there are large numbers of Shi’ah, and well-established hierarchies. Although, looking ov…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…What did that matter, however, when he had angered the city with his critical, dialectical and unprejudiced thinking? Socrates was sentenced to death and, refusing to run away, although he was given that option, he drank down a cup of poison in cold blood, hemlock. Have you forgotten the circumstances under which Stephen, follower of the Apostles, ended his earthly life? “Then they secretly induced men to say, ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…ism is reminiscent of a barefoot Gandhi taking up residence in an East Bengali village after fighting between Hindus and Muslims threatened to destroy the region. Of the many new religious movements of the 1960s and ’70s, Peoples Temple is probably the only one that can boast an agenda that remains enormously relevant to us today. That its genesis was admirable makes the implosion of the dream that much more tragic. Following Fondakowski, who seem…

Cyclops Baby of the Apocalypse? Another Day in ISIS Fundamentalism

By Joseph Laycock

…described in certain hadith (sayings attributed to the prophet) whose arrival signals a final battle that leads to Judgment Day. Some analysts believe the rumor is a recruitment tactic by ISIS, intended to persuade young Muslims to participate in an end-times scenario now unfolding in Iraq and Syria. While the “apocalyptic cyclops baby” could be a calculated propaganda campaign it also demonstrate the inventive nature of fundamentalist religious m…

What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…” argues Staley, drawing a direct contrast between this view of technological salvation and his own evangelical faith. “If you eradicate God from the picture, you have no other means to achieve that end. There’s no other way to achieve victory over death other than by some hope that you have the technological means to make it possible. And it’s a huge dream to put on technology.” Plenty of us, of course, aren’t looking for immortality anywhere—not…

Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

By John W. Morehead

…violence. In two RD posts, one from March 18 and another from March 22, Murali Balaji argues that the attacks were rooted in white Christian nationalism. But is Balaji defining Christian nationalism correctly, and is it the best way to characterize Tarrant’s ideological narrative? I will argue below that the answer is “no” to both questions. To the question of defining Christian nationalism, there is a helpful body of academic research in politica…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…h words that denote transformation. But the new micro-institutions of journalism already bear the hallmarks of the restrictive heritage they abandoned with such glee. . . . Remaking journalism in its own image, only with better hair and tighter clothes, is not a revolution, or even an evolution. It is a repackaging of the status quo with a very nice clubhouse attached. A revolution calls for a regime change of more significant depth. Slate’s Aman…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…will probably be in the thousands. The numbers may be low compared to global-scale disasters of recent years, but there is a wrenching poignancy to what is happening in Uttarakhand right now. Many of the forces that frame daily life in South Asia are suddenly on display like a raw wound: the wages of development and globalization, the power of the natural world, divine agency, altruism, self-interest, and the political nature of both government a…