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My Business, Myself: Piercing the Corporate Veil

By Howard M. Friedman

…ligious freedom rights separate from those of the “real people” who own or manage it. An Oklahoma federal district court, rejecting a challenge by Hobby Lobby Stores to the coverage mandate, thought it was, finding: General business corporations do not, separate and apart from the actions or belief systems of their individual owners or employees, exercise religion. They do not pray, worship, observe sacraments or take other religiously-motivated a…

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

By Peter Laarman

…ligion to organizing religion” that can serve the common good. The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian Brian D. McLaren Convergent Books September 20, 2016 Every theme that McLaren has been carefully developing for years is present in the new book, only amplified with a new sense of urgency that seems to be informed by the climate change crisis, the new Movement for Black Lives, and…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…es have also stood up for such measures. The debate has largely focused on spirituality and ethics, but experts say new medical technology that has opened the door to the practice leaves religious organizations in a bind. Catholic leaders have long been supportive of pain-management measures, up to and including high doses of morphine that slow a patient’s respiration to the point of death, said Courtney Campbell, a professor of religion and cultu…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…ast (where Syrian Christians had lived since the time of St. Thomas) in the 15th century did not come peacefully. The systematic destruction of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and even Muslim holy sites (and the erection of churches in their ruins) was a central component of the Goan Inquisition, a nearly two-century campaign sanctioned by the Catholic Church to convert non-believers—often violently—into Christianity. But the violence of the Portuguese era…

Op-Ed: A Few Things I Wish Barack Obama Had Said

By Garret Keizer

…ore surprising: that so many African American women, men, and children can manage so much as to be proud of themselves in the midst of a culture that continues to telegraph the message that black is ugly, black is inferior, black is dangerous, black is the color of evil incarnate. During this campaign people have asked me about my belief in God. Let me say this: Even if I ceased to believe in God, I would still believe in miracles, because I have…

Faith is Not the Enemy of Feminism

By Frances Kissling

…and the turbulence that accompanies the internal struggle regarding how to manage those challenges. Indeed, there is a disconnect between two of the three sections in the report. The extraordinarily strong section on scholarly work by religious feminists really grapples with issues of patriarchy, power, women’s nature and theo-political issues, in other words, the internal dimension of the encounter between women and religion. The section on activ…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…open bribery and corruption in politics. It was during this same era (from 1880 to 1910) that the Social Gospel took root under the leadership of figures like Gladden and Rauschenbusch. More influential by far than these Protestant prophets, however, was the doctrinal and practical support given to workers and worker movements by Roman Catholic prelates and priests in the major urban centers. Do we have anything like a solidly-rooted and theologi…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…sover cannot be combined successfully. In many interfaith families, people manage to do just that. One of the families that I interviewed during my fieldwork had chosen Judaism as their household religion, and they observed Passover from the night it began until they left Hebrew School on Sunday morning to drive to Grandma’s house for Easter dinner. The father, in this particular family, grew up on a hog farm in South Georgia where Easter dinner i…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…ublican Party. Unlike some evangelicals, however, the Catholic bishops did manage to maintain some semblance of a cross-party policy agenda because of the church’s progressive positions on the death penalty, refugees and immigrants, social welfare programs, and its preference for peace over war. Over time, however, as the Reagan-era GOP coalition frayed and mainstream Republicans were eclipsed, the bishops found themselves aligned with an increasi…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…he 1990s. But the internet has profoundly impacted the Church’s ability to manage messaging and information and breached the boundaries of the still socially insular community. Studies show that rates of disaffiliation have risen significantly among Mormons in the first decade of the twenty-first century. According to a survey of more than 3,000 disaffiliated Mormons conducted by the Open Stories Foundation, thorny historical issues top the list o…