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‘Straight, White, Christian, Married, Suburban Mom’ Calls Out GOP Bully; But are Majority of White Suburban Moms Ready to See Through the ‘Nice’ Charade?

By Diana Butler Bass

…wrote an essay calling Youngkin a “wolf in fleece clothing,” a surprising number of straight, white, Christian, married, suburban moms criticized me on Facebook for not being nice to him. They didn’t address the implicit racism, the anti-LGBTQ scapegoating, or his subtle threats to teachers and education. They said I wasn’t being fair because he was a nice man and should be given a chance. In effect, he convinced them that Democrats were bullying…

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…ndreds of people living in one person’s body. Not many people reading your book have experienced penis theft, but you could imagine a similar study on Dissociative Identity Disorder—and then I think things would get thornier. It’s a really difficult issue. One of the steps is to recognize, I think, that all mental illness and even a lot of the stuff that we think of as just purely physical have a degree of both physical and mental things going on….

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…an L.A. cathedral. Auerbach holds a map she created of all the megachurch sites she’s visited in California You mentioned possibly driving cross-country during the upcoming elections and maybe doing a megachurch series on that? Maybe? I don’t know yet if I’m going to do that. We’ll see. I just came back from San Jose where I photographed 15 megachurches there. Do you have any cities of interest that you’d feel most compelled to go to? Well, Texas…

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…annulment in mind. The price is surely high and it’s women who pay it. The best Catholic response to date has come from the Midwestern-based church reform group Call to Action, launched in 1976 as part of a dialogue initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops and lay people after Vatican II. But when participants at the three-day conference joined social issues like poverty, sexism, and militarism, with ecclesial issues like birth control, homosexuality, a…

Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means

By Katherine Kelaidis

…the 16th century as in the 21st. After Jeremias left, nine out of the ten local bishops in the affected regions gathered in the Brest and voted to join with the Roman Catholic Church. The Greek Catholic Church is a product of this event. Patriarch Kirill also mentioned Ivan Mazepa’s “betrayal” to an audience that effectively constitutes the Russian senate. A Ruthenian-Lithuanian noble man born around 50 years after the Union of Brest, Mazepa was…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…with a stubborn strain of white nationalism embedded in politics from the local to the federal levels across the globe. This parallel is no coincidence. As I discuss in my book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States, refugees and immigrants of color, in particular, have been portrayed as threats to white people demographically and economically by white nationalists for centuries. I…

“Who Prays?” A Soul At War Finds No Refuge

By Paula Cooey

…shot her boyfriend Philando Castile, a cafeteria supervisor for one of the local Montessori schools. So ended the life of yet another man of color at the corner of Fry and Larpenteur in St. Anthony, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul—just one day after the police shooting of Alton Sterling, yet another man of color, in New Orleans. Diamond Reynolds began her prayer, caught on streaming video and posted on Facebook, while being unceremoniously hauled…

‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy

By Katherine Stewart

…infrastructure. As for the networks, Flory and Christerson have done great work in this area. There’s been a real exodus from denominations such as Assemblies of God in favor of informal cooperation networks, where different prophets and apostles are appearing on one another’s Facebook shows, speaking at conferences, cross-promoting books and so on. They recognize that a rising tide lifts all boats, but they’re also focused on maintaining their p…

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…thood Alliance Advocates, and Women4Change Indiana are hosting a “Bans Off Indiana” rally at the Indiana Statehouse on July 25. Indiana Right to Life, meanwhile, which has plenty of good things to say about AG Rokita, is holding a “Love them Both” rally at the statehouse on July 26—“both” referring, of course, to the pregnant person and the fetus, particularly ugly and tone-deaf messaging when you consider what that “love” means to a ten-year-old…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…re congruent with the new world than the Abrahamic faiths. But perhaps the best thought experiments about religion-after-first-contact come from literature. Science-fiction authors have long been interested in the implications for both belief and the believer in a universe that is less empty than it first seems. Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel The Sparrow recounts the horrific journey of Fr. Emilio Sandoz in the year 2019 to the planet Rakhat, and…