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The Untold Story of Religious Support for Gay Rights

By Rebecca Alpert

…yed in obstructing gay rights, her examples of sometimes misguided but deeply sincere religious support for gay rights—especially in the pre-Stonewall era of terrible persecution—are important additions to the story. Did Stonewall inaugurate the American gay rights movement? White’s work shows conclusively that the organized fight for gay rights was going on well before Stonewall. Just like Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of the bus could…

God May Weep For Church Sexual Abuse, But Bishop Chaput Prefers to Bark

By Anthea Butler

…abuse scandal has destroyed families, how can it hope to speak theologically or pastorally to the pressing issues of the family? Going back to repair and repent seems to be a logical part of the process of going forward. Attitudes like Archbishop Chaput’s are the reason why the church continues to struggle with that necessary process. The weight of the abused bodies of children, the suicides, the drug addictions, and the terror of those who have…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…thout bothering to understand the theological complexities of the religiously unaffiliated: that they are overwhelmingly believers, not atheists, much less anti-theists, that they feel pushed out of the church by exactly the judgmentalism that Francis works to counteract, that many of them have moved left exactly because they are so disgusted by the connection between religion and right-wing politics. Then there’s the slur that liberal Christianit…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…revealing. And how about this one: throughout the Trump years, but especially early on, we were bombarded with lazy think piece after lazy think piece expressing bewilderment over white evangelical “values voters” supporting an impious, unfaithful, scandal-ridden, and generally immoral billionaire. The head-scratching seemed to be the point, belying a transparently naïve hope that simply exposing conservative Christian Trump supporters’ hypocrisy…

Can You Become Un-Autistic?

By Michael Schulson

…“35 continue to have emotional, behavioral or learning difficulties, and only 10 are in a mainstream classroom with no additional support.” Finally, it’s important to remember that a diagnosis isn’t a natural absolute that scientists set out to discover. It’s a human-made category, which doctors then apply to patients’ symptoms. When a child loses an autism diagnosis, what has changed? The underlying cause? The symptoms? The child’s strategies of…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…here? What is the self? Is there a soul? It seems to cut to these politically and culturally charged questions more than most other fields. I feel very lucky about that, because if I were an expert in soil mechanics or something, my work would be important, but nobody would care about the questions I’m asking. What attracted me to this field is the centrality of the brain to our identities. It’s interesting that you said that the questions it touc…

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…eir religious beliefs.” But by defending Davis, the candidates are not merely defending her “religious liberty;” they’re defending her underlying argument, that what she claims is God’s authority is superior to the Constitution, civil laws, and the Supreme Court’s rulings on those laws. Religious freedom, of course, has long been seen as the hot 2016 culture war issue, so it’s not surprising to see some of the candidates line up to support Davis….

Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette

By Michael Schulson

…church or [a] worship service.” A full 96% of those surveyed chose “generally not okay,” which was slightly higher than those who condemn mobile use in movie theaters. This finding indicates not only that the secular chambers of the cinema still don’t command quite the respect of Good Old Fashioned Faith—but also that the Pew methodology may be a bit out of whack. I make that latter point based on my recent experiences in church—which are myriad,…

Trump and the Bible Dodge

By Sarah Posner

…Heer calls “aggrieved privilege” (not populism), Palin wrapped it in overtly religious gestures. Her gestures, particularly her verbal ones, bore all the hallmarks of modern televangelism: an insistence on biblical inerrancy paired with a claim that the speaker can receive new revelations, directly from God, about one’s social, economic, and political prospects. It’s a perfect model for Trump: reinterpreting the Bible to claim God picked you out…

Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…rly at all. We’re more likely to be—gasp!—Democrats, or Republicans. Actually, mostly Democrats. (See also: Ben Carson.) So why do some people keep confusing these very different categories? And assuming American Muslims are all potentially ISIS fighters? “Many of the people and politicians who make sweeping generalizations about Islamists have never actually had a proper conversation with a real-life Islamist. We don’t have to like Islamists, but…