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How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…could be seen to have a metaphysics and cosmology more congruent with the new world than the Abrahamic faiths. But perhaps the best thought experiments about religion-after-first-contact come from literature. Science-fiction authors have long been interested in the implications for both belief and the believer in a universe that is less empty than it first seems. Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel The Sparrow recounts the horrific journey of Fr. Emi…

Will SCOTUS Call the “Bluff” of Religious Liberty Activists?

By Kara Loewentheil

…y Lobby, the Administration took a slow and leisurely approach to creating new regulations for the accommodation process. Finally released in July, the regulations, among other things, instituted a process for those non-profit religious organizations (NPRO) that objected to the original accommodation. Under the revised accommodation process, the NPROs do not have to directly inform their insurance provider or third-party administrator (meaning an…

Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)

By Eric C. Miller

…pporting Christian families and promised to shape young men and women who knew their place. A 1975 promotional brochure for the school advertised, “we have no hippies” and “you can tell our boys from our girls without a medical examination.” The relative lack of explicit racial rhetoric in the family values movement would later open the door for change among some conservative evangelicals. In 1990, University of Colorado football coach Bill McCart…

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

…landscape study, it confirmed what most Protestant mainline denominations knew in practice for years: Americans aren’t going to church like they used to. Beyond that, much of the research around trends—specifically with millennials born between 1981 and 1996—reveals a much more complex American landscape. The larger takeaway in the 2014 study was that the American church was losing members—and that became the sexy cover story. Lost in the weeds wa…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…e European Community and the United States, which they want to impose “the new Moral Agenda” which promotes abortion, marriage between lesbians, gays and transsexuals. The president and director of the Christian Action Group spoke on a panel addressing “The new global agenda and its implications in the Dominican Republic.” They warned that international institutions like the Organization for American States and United Nations are pushing an agenda…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…lement with the FTC. Those comments boosted Herbalife’s share prices and renewed speculation about whether Ackman’s bet would pay off. Since its inception in 1980, Herbalife has survived an investigation from the state of California, a Senate inquiry, the dramatic death of its charismatic founder, and plenty of bad press. It wouldn’t be surprising if it survives Ackman, too. But even if things are legally on the level, a certain kind of razzle-daz…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…ite topic. But I’m never at the merch table like, ‘Have you heard the Good News of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ?’ I would never hit someone with that. I feel that is way too heavy-handed and does a bit more harm than good,” she tells CBC Music. “I don’t consider myself a Christian artist,” she concludes, in the self-contradicting tradition of Bieber. But where musically Bieber professes his faith in opaque gestures, like naming his album “Pur…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…the country and have decided to remain, or return after a few years away. Between the two groups, the self-understanding of the community becomes defined over and against urban life, for good reasons (wanting a small, caring community) and bad (wanting not to live next to black people). All of this can be dealt with, but change comes slow in rural areas. Think generations, rather than years, much less the lightning pace expected by the wired worl…

Anti-Vaxxers Illustrate Danger of Overly Broad Religious Freedom Laws

By Kara Loewentheil

…returned carrying the disease from abroad, but the outbreak has brought renewed attention to the anti-vaccination movement (like this RNS commentary arguing that “Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail”). What hasn’t been highlighted is the fact that the increased instances of measles and other previously-eradicated diseases in this country over the last decade are actually a cautionary tale about religious exemptions. All…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…a vocal right-wing fringe movement (like Farage’s UKIP) that has limited access to political power than to have a quieter right-wing fringe movement that, by taking over a mainstream party, actually has a shot at national office. I suspect Clinton and her campaign made a good bet. Better to face things head on than to pretend they don’t exist, especially when so much is on the line. But the issue remains thorny. Faced with new, muscular expressio…