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Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds

By Sunnivie Brydum

…o secular groups equally available to religious groups “raises an enormous number of church-state questions,” Platt added. “And it really puts the state into a very tenuous position, in terms of other potential Establishment Clause violations.” That was essentially the argument advanced by Missouri’s former solicitor general (who argued the case from a position that Missouri’s new governor officially abandoned). But the argument didn’t seem to win…

Is the Rise of “Nones” Actually the Decline of Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…long time to come, there is another largely unnoticed trend lurking in the numbers: just how much the growth in the nones has been fueled by the disaffiliation of Roman Catholics. According to PPRI: While non-white Protestants and non-Christian religious groups have remained fairly stable, white Protestants and Catholics have all experienced declines, with Catholics suffering the largest decline among major religious groups: a 10-percentage point…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…diously avoids mentioning God until the book’s final chapter. Instead, the bulk of his argument revolves around fossils, mutations, and proteins, not the puzzles of metaphysics. As Meyer points out, Darwin thought that evolution happened gradually, with slow, steady changes eventually leading to life’s diversification. But there are gaps in the fossil record, especially during the Cambrian explosion, that seem too big to have been hurdled by such…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…ng every debate, candidates like McCain, Romney, and Giuliani received the bulk of the questions just because they had more money in their campaign coffers, while he was lucky to get even one question thrown his way—and when he did, it was inevitably a question about religion. With relish Huckabee rehashes an episode from the debate at St. Anselm College when CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asked for his views on evolution. Fed up with being pushed to…

The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters

By Kristin Swenson

…tian we’re talking about) of a Christian Old Testament, which composes the bulk but not entirety of Christian Bibles, which also include a New Testament. So there’s that. Indeed, besides that, there are several other things about the Bible (any Bible) that make it so unusual. To name a few: it’s actually a collection of books, some of which are themselves collections; it evolved over a long period of time (centuries), in terms of both the content…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…s all the way down to the level of the family. This division gives men the bulk of the institutional power in almost every respect. If this binary complementarianism isn’t maintained then men stand to lose some of their power. Homosexual relationships, by their very nature, problematize this patriarchal division of labor. So homosexuality is out. But when the church wrote the Proclamation they lacked the foresight to use language to exclude trans…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…and academy, but between the institutional voice of the episcopate and the bulk of the Catholic population.” The impetus for the “More than a Monologue” conferences was the growing support by U.S. Catholic laity for full LGBT equality. According to a 2010 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 49% of white Catholics support gay marriage—up 5% from the previous year’s poll. A 2011 study by the Public Religion Research institute found t…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Tree of Life, Book of Job

By Jay Michaelson

…the psychic center of the film, is an eleven- to thirteen-year-old for the bulk of it, and a brooding fifty-something (played by Penn) in occasional flash-forwards. (I actually found the Penn sequences the least satisfying of the film and the most prone to bathos—Penn is a good brooder, but he doesn’t do much.) We watch, largely through his eyes, as his parents turn from perfect angels to imperfect human beings. His heroic father (Pitt) turns out…

One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…in 2019, more than one in six reported experiencing such pressure. But the bulk of them persevere. In the same survey, about 67 percent of these teachers reported emphasizing the broad scientific consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism—encouragingly, up from 51 percent in 2007. When it comes to evolution education, the very last thing American science teachers need from their state legislatures is interference motivated…