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How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ilding any more, but he does have a space—or rather, many spaces. For this latest book, he’s going on what he calls a “living room” tour. On April 9th, the day of the How To Be Here Experience in Durham, I was running late, and only found the place—a distillery-turned-events space with an unmarked address—almost by accident. I saw that the wide metal-plated door of a low-slung brick building was propped open, and on the stoop outside stood a tall…

Leave It to Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old

By Neil J. Young

Catholics now represent the latest demographic challenge for Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions. As the Washington Post recently reported, a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found that Catholic voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Trump by a crushing 23 percent margin, 55-32. With less than a third of Catholics intending to vote for him, Trump has fallen well below the support GOP candidates typically enjoy from Catholic voters….

Dear Evangelicals, A “Begrudging” Vote for Trump Is Still a Vote for Trump

By Neil J. Young

…strongest man who conquered death is a terrible thing to see.” While these latest #NeverTrump missives repeat many of the same points made over the past year, they notably do not argue that “real Christians” are not supporting Trump as earlier evangelical writings against the Trump movement contended. As I wrote earlier this year, for all their honor in opposing Trump, the #NeverTrump evangelicals were also unwilling to admit Trump’s support came…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…allenging the executive order, the Establishment argument advanced in this latest suit is both novel and essential. It puts under a microscope the faith-based animosity laid bare by the order, which specifically exempts refugees who are “religious minorities” in the seven Muslim-majority nations targeted by the ban (except for Syrian refugees, who are to be denied U.S. entry across the board, indefinitely). Like much of the language in the executi…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

Professor Daniel C. Maguire’s latest book, Christianity Without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative, is an ambitious project that functions as both a primer on the logical and ethical failures of theism and as a reimaging of the biblical narrative to meet the great moral challenges of our day. As a theologian and former priest who teaches ethics at Marquette University, a Jesuit school, Maguire fills a critical g…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…know, a discredited ideologue paid by the American Enterprise Institute to promote public policies targeting people of color, women and the poor. His work has employed a combination of eugenics and other pseudo-science that has time and time again shown to be based on false premises, inadequate research and erroneous conclusions. He is not an academic nor a “critically acclaimed” public scholar, but a well-funded phony. His research is an insult t…

Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…ders and their followers played key roles in campaigns to abolish slavery, promote civil rights and end the Vietnam War, among others. The latest upwelling of left-leaning religious activism has accompanied the dawn of the Trump presidency. Some in the religious left are inspired by Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic leader who has been an outspoken critic of anti-immigrant policies and a champion of helping the needy. The abolitionists weren’t real…

Dear Mr. President: We Get It. You Really Love White Conservative Christians

By Sunnivie Brydum

The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s “religious freedom” memo, which is actually a pair of documents purporting to instruct all government agencies how to be appropriately deferential to those who express religious inclinations. The memo—which does not carry the weight of law—keeps pace with this administration’s fawning embrace of the worldview expressed by the white conservative…

New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…reason for the season.’ But, it does no such thing. At most, O’Reilly just promoted a bullying cultural identity of the god-fearing GOP “us” against secular-humanist Democrat “them.” Or, again, is this not just more identity flashing; more “identitarian Christianity,” courtesy of the mute frozen images of the thriving Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, and Miraculous medal industry that Roy writes about? These guys are on my team. Who’s on…

Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ersal-soul (paramatman).” Yet, Zed now argues that yoga will do nothing to promote Hinduism? Regardless of how Alabama resolves its latest bout on yoga, it seems unlikely that controversies over yoga—or the often-paired practice of mindfulness meditation—will disappear any time soon. Indeed, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has recently renewed its objections to mindfulness. Yoga and mindfulness point to a key cultural divide over fr…