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Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…Interfaith Alliance, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, would be curious to know who made the cut. The project also received statements of support from People for the American Way and NARAL, whose progressive credentials are also presumably challenged by Haffner’s declaration. In contrast to the posture of this new religious left is the more humble, less defensive attitude that is more characteristic o…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…keep rural communities alive and struggling for economic justice.” “At the Center for New Community, our work approach is built on a foundational understanding of the importance of race in America,” says Ostendorf. “We build on the ground in local communities along with states and regions to mobilize progressive populist sentiment that we hope will turn into movements for effective political change. We juggle social, racial, and economic issues, a…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…s not been the case. Through our research on religious creativity, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture has seen Los Angeles’ young Muslims create “third spaces” such as the Ehsan Center and the Women’s Mosque of America—spaces that operate outside the norm of what a traditional mosque looks like. Across the country, I have talked to young American Muslims who are disaffiliating entirely from formal institutions and participating in commu…

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…than we are right now.” If this is true–if there is, in fact, a new vital center among U.S. Christians–is it big enough and strong enough in view of the urgency of the social challenge, notably an unprecedented concentration of economic/political power? Definitely not, not yet. That “new vital center” is real, and I believe it is growing, but it is fragile and in many ways embryonic. It must be nurtured, encouraged, fed, and protected from those…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…istry on the margins. Where the temptation is to try to be accepted by the center you know that you’re prophetic when you’re on the margin and you stop trying to pull the center. You create something new and fresh. It’s sort of like the definition of reformation. Something new and fresh on the margins. And that’s what most of these churches did, but it’s lonely work. Because there’s nobody like you, you think. But then you leave the light on, peop…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

…ve their lives to it. Even as I listened to Elder Packer in the Conference Center and knew his address would be making headlines, what I most wanted to share with Religion Dispatches readers were the “lived religion” images and experiences of 21st century Mormon life in its richness and globalizing diversity: The forward-thinking young Latinas in pantsuits (not traditional Sunday dresses) I saw in the 20,000-seat conference center. The group of te…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…rld. Thus, when humans establish new places, they establish an omphalos, a center around which to organize themselves (and keep others de-centered). In doing so, they mirror sacred reality and thus transform chaos into cosmos. Curiously, modern American city centers eschew the car, preserving it for pedestrians and public transport. Indeed, the epicenters seem designed to embrace not the individual but the public, not the private capsule of the ca…

Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…” Several high-profile opponents of the mosque plan—including the American Center for Law and Justice and the Anti-Defamation League—have in the past defended the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, arguing that it “protects religious land uses from discrimination.” Thus because of Republican legislation, conservative opponents of the Park 51 project have had to fight not on legal grounds, but on the far weaker notion that the co…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…s to end birthright citizenship. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (an anti-immigration think-tank founded by a eugenicist and a White nationalist), suggested that asylum be abolished, and that women visiting the US on a tourist visa should be asked if they’re pregnant, and be denied entry to the country until after having given birth. A war for a Christian nation In a session on “lawfare,” panelists railed a…

Should Chaplains Be Involved in Psychedelic Experiences? Are ‘Trips’ Inherently Religious?

By Hollis Phelps

…that the panelists, Daan Keiman, a facilitator at the psychedelic retreat center Synthesis; Jamie Beachy, Director of the Center for Contemplative Chaplaincy Naropa University; and Trace Haythorn, Executive Director and CEO of the ACPE, were also vying for position in the newly-emerging, eventually legal psychedelic marketplace. Researchers, along with behind-the-scenes donors, investors, and advocacy groups, currently control that marketplace, a…