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New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…PFM continued to minister in prisons and two years ago decided to direct a bulk of its considerable resources toward cutting recidivism, the rate of repeat offenses and incarceration, through the Out4Life program. In the coming year, it plans to launch Out4Life in ten additional states with more on the horizon. In creating Out4Life, PFM says it was responding to a deep need its volunteers and chaplains saw within prison populations. It was also in…

‘The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy’ Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

By Shane Burley

…and the breakdown of civil relationships and family bonds that made up the bulk of Neiwert’s horror as he watched the values that he treasured in America crumble. Age of Insurrection plows through all this at a breakneck pace. The book’s concluding abruptness may be its most profound commentary: nothing has ended. This continuing violence brings us back to the conference. Neiwert’s sense of exhaustion was not new, nor was it uncommon among our pee…

If Apes Could Talk to Atheists

By Beatrice Marovich

…religion” is more biological than many atheists would have us believe. The bulk of the book is spent supporting his central claim that morality comes from the “bottom up”—that it’s an aspect of social life we share with other creatures. In this regard de Waal’s case is deeply convincing. Presenting evidence from his studies of bonobo and chimpanzee communities (as well as work done among other animal populations, by other researchers), de Waal arg…

Leave It to Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old

By Neil J. Young

…arty. With strong Catholic Church teachings that seemed to support both Republican and Democratic positions, Catholic voters have tended to evenly divide between the two parties in most recent elections. Now Trump threatens to disrupt that parity, sending the bulk of Catholic voters to the side of his opponent. What this means for the future of the Republican Party remains uncertain. But for now, Catholic rejection of Trump at least surely offers…

Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…h operations in Ukiah, San Francisco and Los Angeles before relocating the bulk of the congregation to Guyana in the late ‘70s, ostensibly to avoid government persecution for its radical views. About 75% of Peoples Temple members were African American, 20% were white and 5% were Asian, Latino and Native American. The majority of its black members were women, while its core leadership was predominantly white. As per the cultural cliché, black women…

Is Yoga Hindu?

By Roman Palitsky

…list organization, the take on yoga that it has chosen to espouse owes its bulk to the emergence of Hindu nationalism, and to the colonial conditions out of which such nationalism arose. Paradoxically, it would seem that claiming yoga as essentially Hindu cedes a vibrant and important practice with Indic roots to the influence of routine colonial reduction. While it may fit nicely with many an Orientalist construction of what yoga ought to be, thi…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…shing guidelines for writers of textbooks, and Texas is the second largest bulk purchaser of textbooks in the country. But how far publishers will go to sell books in such a lucrative market is a matter of debate. Some writers have argued that the board has gone too far, and no reputable publishing house will present history in the context that the new standards demand. But in an interview this week, McLeroy indicated that the battle over textbook…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…million set aside in the budget, Texas is second only to California in the bulk purchase of textbooks. But Texas, unlike California, approves and purchases books for all the state’s school districts. Publishers often edit and revise textbooks in order meet the specific demands of the Texas board members. Other states pay attention too, and what’s adopted in Texas is also adopted in many conservative states. Now the issue is whether there is enough…

Will Internet Kill Mormonism Too? Or Just Missionaries?

By Holly Welker

…very serious health threat for the 18- to 21-year-olds who constitute the bulk of the missionary force. At least the more familiar approach, of walking up stairs in apartment buildings to knock on doors and of traveling to meetings and appointment by bike, provided good cardiovascular exercise. On my mission, I generally rode my bike at least ten to 15 hours a week. Admittedly, the Referral Center Mission in Provo was created in part to “accommod…