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Does God Hate Health Care? How About Public Schools? Or Bridges?

By Joanna Brooks

…ever mind the outrage over the alleged ugliness of this campaign. Remember California’s anti-immigrant Proposition 187 and anti-marriage equality Proposition 8? It’s one thing when powerful men backed by multi-billion dollar corporate political funds hurl insults at each other; it’s another when everyday citizens vote away the rights of their minority neighbors. Setting aside this week’s distractions, the ideological centerpiece of campaign 2012 r…

Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’

By Beatrice Marovich

…k The Constant Fire: Beyond the Religion vs. Science Debate (University of California Press, 2009), the astrophysicist Adam Frank borrows the term “hierophany” from historian of religion Mircea Eliade to describe the strangely spiritual things that science produces. Science, he argues, is a “spiritual endeavor” (like almost any human thing, I might argue). We need the language to speak about this, and Frank attempts to provide it. He contends that…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Marco, who “went postal” on seven people before killing herself in Goleta, California in 2006. But by and large the common denominator in mass killing is gender; the intimate enemy is almost always a man. If God is male, then male is God Left unexplored in commentary such as that offered by Sen, Thistlethwaite, and Juergensmeyer is the role masculinity itself—not the biological fact of being male, but the behavioral and ideological markers of male…

How Sikhs Handle Hate

By Rajdeep Singh and Simran Jeet Singh

…ericans. In recent years, for example, the Sikh American community spearheaded the passage of the first anti-bullying law in New York City; the repeal of an 87-year-old Oregon law that prohibited teachers from wearing religious dress in the public schools; and the introduction of a California bill that protects workers from religious discrimination. Attacks like the one in Oak Creek will only encourage us to respond with the spirit of Bota Singh,…

Obama and the Louie Giglio Controversy

By Sarah Posner

…and pertained to the still-fresh Proposition 8 fight in his home state of California, Giglio’s comments were unearthed from an archive of old sermons, and there hasn’t been any evidence, so far, of anything more recent. What’s more, since the Warren pick, Obama has established his bona fides on marriage equality, and has tapped Richard Blanco as the first openly gay inaugural poet. Obama’s selection of Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocat…

Just a Mirror of a Mirror of Myself: Episode Three Recap of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…because she needs to sort out how she feels about dating. That was an ambivalent moment: Kolby does seem confused about dating, and good for her that she doesn’t fear singleness too much to quit dating someone she’s confused about. On the other hand, I wish Kolby’s takeaway from Teryn’s self-disclosure had not been that purity must be even more high-stakes than she’d realized, and dating even more dangerous. I’ve said it before, but it bears repea…

Confessions of a Former Gun-Worshipper

By Joanna Brooks

…in a long while, guns meant a drive into the manzanita-thicketed Southern California foothills with Dad to aim into the dusty hillsides. Guns were what boys got to do. More precisely: guns were what sons got to do. How could I not have a thing for guns? Second confession: I no longer have a thing for guns. Yes, Newtown had something to do with it. But I have more private reasons as well. Suffice it to say, I sat up one morning last month and said…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…of strangers in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Local TV stations in California, Michigan, and New Mexico also had zombie hackers co-opt their emergency systems. Add to that list states where aid in dying legislation has recently been introduced (New Mexico, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, and Hawaii) and states where it is already legal (Oregon since 1994 and Washington since 2008) and you’re likely to conclude that dead isn’t what it use…

Christians v. Gays: The Damage Done

By David Gushee

…996 Defense of Marriage Act and permitting same-sex marriages to resume in California. These Christians are doubling down, and doubling down, and doubling down again, on the same arguments and strategies that have failed in the court of public opinion and today in the Supreme Court. Many are already arguing about the great damage that will be done to marriage with today’s decisions. I would suggest that a more important damage to Christian witness…

Why It’s Okay to Criticize Fundamentalist Evangelicals

By Tom Eggebeen

…tion of American Historians, and professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, calmly and firmly lifts up the legacy of Ecumenical Protestantism (EcuP): our recognition that marriage is more than procreation, our challenge to Billy Graham’s reduction of sin to something personal and private, offering a larger worldview for missions addressing the cultural imperialism regnant in missionary projects, with advocacy for racial and ge…