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Mormons Prepare to March in LGBT Pride Parades Nationwide

By Joanna Brooks

…any political group, and we are asking people to have no signage for political causes. In this Pride Parade contingent, we are not taking a stand either way on marriage equality. Our signs are quotes from LDS Church General Authorities, the Bible, and LDS hymns about loving your neighbor. You once had some concern about how the LGBT community would respond. What preparations have you been making? We initially entered the parade as the LDS Toleranc…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…we started the prayer. Okay then. Before we had completed silent rakaat, a call came in on my cell, and Rihanna started singing from my bag in front of me on the floor. Ms. Niqabi nudges me and signals my bag. I wait until we prostrate then switch it off while still in the bag. Phew! Minimal damage, I hope. No chance. Ms. Niqabi asks me first do I speak Arabic. Then, noticing my nametag, she asks do I speak English. No friendly greeting seems emin…

What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]

By Daniel Wise

…cademics would call a form of metaphysical spirituality. Historian of American religion Catherine Albanese traces metaphysical religion or spirituality through New Age spirituality back through late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Theosophy and back to Spiritualism and Mesmerism. It’s a type of spirituality concerned with intuition, the therapeutic, and the flow of spiritual energy. More and more Americans are embracing metaphysical forms o…

The Lady Vanishes: Trump’s Communications Team Tries to Topple a Monument

By Spencer Dew

…her “everybody’s gal.” In wartimes she’s carried a sword, placed an urgent phone call for financial help, and even scolded her citizenry. As a mascot for our country, she’s been given the face of a skull on the streets of Tehran and been beheaded by Trump in a famous Der Spiegel cover from earlier this year. In the religious and cultural imagination of America, she’s been denounced as a demonic idol, revered as a Wiccan goddess, reimagined as a Ch…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…in 2000. Kaylor wrote, “You were correct to connect the news about Perry’s phone call with Robison’s effort in 1980. In fact, the connection is much stronger.” Kaylor reported in June that although Robison denied that his group was supporting a particular candidate—in fact, the group was divided over who to support, as was the religious right leadership in 2008—the televangelist appears to be a prime motivator of Perry’s prayer rally scheduled for…

Sex, Violence, Art, and Religion

By Kent L. Brintnall

…those who don’t possess full humanity up to full humanity, I offer an ethical, political and theological vision that emphasizes that “humanity” is riven with trauma, fracture, loss, and pain. Recognition of a shared vulnerability, a mutual laceration, a “universal” crucifixion, I contend, has the power to disrupt mechanisms of comparison and differentiation that fuel and foster violence. Finally, I am trying to make a methodological point. By tur…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tors are caught in the middle, and the voters themselves are… well… making phone calls and holding marches, because what else is there to do? (When I called the office of one member of the Public Health Committee to register my opposition to SB-1433, the staffer on the phone said, “Goodness, it seems like everyone in Oklahoma is calling.” I wearily replied that most of the calls must be in support of the bill, right? “Oh, no,” she said. “Against i…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ing an Orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned figure in a wheelchair with several caricatures of the Prophet on its inside pages, including some of him naked. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera last Friday, the editor defended his decision to publish these cartoons arguing that the problem is the indignant, violent reaction of Muslims. He says nothing wrong has been done, and that his magazine hasn’t violated French law, where a publication has th…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…t’s the source of ethics. That’s been lost entirely. And it’s really practical, it can happen. But people can’t do it. They don’t do it. They don’t know they have this capacity. They think listening is simply waiting for you to pause so I can come in. Speaking of listening, you use stories from your teaching experience to such great effect. It sounds as if teaching for you has been a laboratory… Absolutely. That is exactly the word I would use. An…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…ws is an imaginative reconstruction. ___________ Dear Father God. Hello? I can call you Father, right? or maybe Jesus? And who’s the third guy? I forget. Whatever. I’ll just say “God.” OK? I’ll take that as a yes. Beautiful. So, God, I’ve got this breakfast thing tomorrow, which is really more Mike Pence’s crowd than mine. They’ve been so good to me. But boy, they love Mike, this crowd. I looked at the speech Steve gave me. I’m definitely gonna us…