Religion Dispatches
…They love me. My speech was a the biggest success in the history of black people. The media lied about it, of course. They said I didn’t know Douglass. They just can’t stop lying. Oh, gotta go, that’s my man Douglass on the phone right now. #amen #maga…
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…, and they are certainly not synonymous with history. This was Miller’s first mistake, turning condescendingly pedantic (not a much-loved trait in America) and lecturing Acosta on what Acosta—and, according to Acosta, a great many Americans—believe. History was rallied to counter faith. “I don’t want to get off unto a whole thing about history here,” Miller said, followed by an originalist theory that separated the statue and its meaning from the…
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…iscussion the Secular Survey is intended to spark: https://twitter.com/Artists_Ali/status/1258130531298037764?s=20 https://twitter.com/sooofanxy/status/1258138150033149956?s=20 https://twitter.com/jillianonthehud/status/1258119974264147968?s=2 https://twitter.com/jamiblakeley108/status/1258173442899099648?s=20 While some respondents insisted that being nonreligious is a choice in a way that one’s experience of one’s gender and sexuality is not—and…
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…house. Growing up in a Latina household in south Texas, Maria was told ghost stories like those of the legendary La Llorona, the ghostly weeping woman, and she enjoys what she describes as “Catholic horror movies,” such as The Conjuring in which Catholic heroes fight off demons. Maria drew from these word-of-mouth tales and the media she consumes to conclude that these otherwise unexplainable phenomena were a haunting caused by ghosts. Maria isn’…
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…ltimore. At the first, about a dozen volunteers spent the night making almost 300 phone calls and collecting pledges of volunteer support and contributions from 50 new supporters. Add that to the five other locations holding similar phone banks or collecting post cards of support, and I’m sure we easily got our 300 today. In addition, Equality Maryland hosted an interfaith meeting to mobilize supportive faith leaders. It was so great to see such a…
Read More…nment Announces 7,000 Same-Sex Couples Married Last Year France’s national statistics agency, Insee, announced this week that about 7,000 same-sex couples were married last year, representing about 3 percent of marriages nationwide. Same-sex couples won the right to marry in May over strong objections from the Catholic Church, the far right, and others – cheered on by American religious conservatives. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the far-right Nati…
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…body waging “countercultural” rebellion against what they see as the feminist status quo. “We are believing God for a movement of reformation and revival in the hearts and homes of Christian women all around this world,” one organizer, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, said at the close of the conference. “I just believe there is a massive women’s movement of true women in those millions of women who are able to capture all kinds of battlefronts for Christ.” Th…
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…hurches are not “true” churches, judges priests on their identity (gay priests must leave) rather than their actions, stops dialogue on any topics that do not meet the Pope’s approval (such as the possibility of women priests), sheds gay people from its ranks and fights against their rights, ignores the diminishing number of priests and the effects of this shortage on Church communities, and calls on Catholics to form the “perfect society” resembl…
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…lan Greenspan’s rather shocking testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday. One is struck first by how entirely separate these two events are in current media reportage, almost as if to suggest that there are good economics and bad, and little in between, whereas most of the actual marketplace exists in that bizarre “in between.” Still more to the point, I was struck by David Brooks’s partial defense of the Greenspan testimony. For Brooks, the testimony w…
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…lievers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World, written when scholars were just starting to analyze the rapid ascendency of Christian conservatives in politics. She has led the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association. Elaine Howard Ecklund examines contemporary American religion and its intersections with science—specifically, how s…
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