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The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism

By Lauren Sutton

…ng for people to buy better light bulbs. Might we be moving back to a more community-focused brand of environmentalism? I don’t know if we are or not. That’s a good question. Some sort of governmental or international effort has always been a part of the equation. In that sense it’s not really a change. But even the light bulb movement had a government law component, and now [in many places] you can’t even buy the incandescent bulbs anymore. If we…

Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books

By Sarah Posner

…, and perhaps a campaign didn’t explicitly brag about reading a particular book, but considering that conversion of non-believers is a standard evangelical imperative, it shouldn’t be too terribly surprising that an evangelical candidate would brag about reading a book that contained such an exhortation. And as I’ve argued before, creating candidates like Perry (or Bachmann) has been years in the making. Doug Wead, in his 1985 memo to George H.W….

A person holding a sign that says "If you're not angry then you're not listening."

Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. And after a 10–way auction, “The Failures of Forgiveness,” will be released by Princeton University Press in September 2023. Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and N…

Hating God: The Untold Story

By Bernard Schweizer

…nal, antisocial, or even cranky behavior. The misotheists I studied for my book are committed humanitarians, great artists, profound thinkers, and decent citizens. This would be grist on the mill of secular humanists who claim that morality is not dependent on religious reverence, and it surely is a comfort to those who feel guilty for maintaining an adversarial relationship with God, a relationship they cannot shake and yet feel apprehensive abou…

GOP, Gingrich, Perry Team Up to put Satirists Out of Work

By Sarah Posner

…fidelity. The only thing it won’t forgive is being gay. (Ask Ted Haggard.) Open marriage is a new one. We’ll find out how sincerely the signers of the Manhattan Declaration expect their chosen leaders to adhere to this passage from the document: Some who enter into same-sex and polyamorous relationships no doubt regard their unions as truly marital. They fail to understand, however, that marriage is made possible by the sexual complementarity of m…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…his lower back who invited me to check out a church where he was a minister-in-training. I started going regularly and eventually joined. Then I went to divinity school, and now I’m starting my own church in Chicago. A lot happened to get me to the point of wanting to start a church, and at this point I’m in pretty deep as far as Christianity is concerned. However, something I’ve found hard to admit is that the real, physical space of the Christia…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

…the community. It is hard to start over in midlife, but John became a much-in-demand therapist in New York City. He counseled hundreds of LGBTIQ Catholics, many of whose problems were tied directly to the Roman Catholic Church’s theology that he tried so valiantly to change. He wrote several more important books, including Taking a Chance on God (1998), a title that aptly sums up his life. John McNeill’s ministry was legendary. For decades, he co…

Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

…d be pleased to do is take responsibility for all in society, not just the high-born and monied. He attacked corruption in government and in the powerful East India Company and sought to improve the wretched conditions in Ireland and among British workers. The idea that light regulation comes with societal responsibility goes back to John Locke, whose criteria for self-government grounds our Declaration of Independence, and to the economic guru of…

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

By Glenn Branch

…ess than a year ago, would have allowed teachers in the state’s public and open-enrollment charter schools to “teach creationism as a theory of how the earth came to exist.” The bill’s description of creationism wouldn’t be accepted even by creationists, and Arkansas’s previous flirtation with creationism, a 1981 law requiring “creation science” to be taught in the state’s public schools alongside evolution, was thwarted by a federal district cour…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…“irreconcilable differences” between Merritt, Gallagher and interim editor-in-chief G. Jeffrey MacDonald, a UCC minister and religion writer whose RNS bio indicates that he has no previous experience as an editor. While Merritt had initially indicated in his statement that he wasn’t interested in making the details of his departure public, he says that became all but impossible when MacDonald posted an account on the closed, but widely read, Reli…