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Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About

By Ingrid Lilly

…ife. Honestly, does it matter whether a movie is biblical? Do the spiritual-but-not-religious care? Do those evangelicals who grow tired of the stereotype made of them in the media care? Do secular liberals who have no use for the Bible really care about these questions? America, we can ask a better question, a more crucial and more meaningful question, “Why does The Flood continue to work as a powerful cultural story?” Indeed, The Flood is one of…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…l Rights Amendment and the passage of Proposition 8 and other anti-marriage-equality laws) in the service of the most conservative version of LDS theology. On political-religious matters, we have partnered almost exclusively with “natural allies” like conservative evangelicals, Catholics, and conservative Jews. (Indeed, in his address, Oaks mobilized several rhetorical tropes that appealed exclusively to conservatives, including the idea of a “con…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…comment is the way the USCCB operates; rarely if ever does it issue an off-the-cuff assessment. But the USCCB’s allies — other groups that oppose the contraception mandate — have wasted no time in lambasting the new rule as an inadequate protection of their constitutional rights. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a legal group that has led the charge of litigation against the rule, claimed that the rule “leaves religious Americans at risk.”…

Sure, Evangelical Numbers are Steady… But at What Cost?

By Jonathan Orbell

…al holiness may eventually backfire in an increasingly pluralist, spiritual-but-not-religious nation like our own. Those who eschew Shrum’s “narrow way,” explains Schultz, do so not out of some rebellious response to a pure Gospel. Some have already written off Christian faith as a necessarily exclusivist belief system. Those that haven’t simply crave a less divisive, more socially engaged faith. They’re tired of Culture War posturing and are now…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…he proportion of white Protestants in each of these states, ranging from a high of a 15-point drop in Arkansas to a low of an 8-point drop in Louisiana.” Notwithstanding this dispute between Jones and Grant, the outcome of the election will turn, obviously, on a range of complex factors that are not explained solely by the numbers, even the declining numbers, of white evangelicals in the South, or even of declining numbers of conservative Protesta…

Why Does Abortion Have to Be a Personal Question for Men?

By Sarah Posner

…of course, the heart of the answer to both the abortion and contraception questions. Raddatz gave both men the chance to discuss their faith. Ryan pointed out that faith informs everything he does; Biden took pains to highlight that as important as his faith is to him, he wouldn’t use it to force others to adhere to his beliefs. And as it happens, most Catholic voters don’t really rate abortion and contraception at the top of their list of concer…

Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture? [UPDATED]

By Joanna Brooks

…neered so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” after 9/11 has raised new questions about whether Mormonism condones torture. Washington newspapers are reporting that Bruce Jessen was called and “sustained” (or approved) to serve as bishop by his Spokane-area congregation in mid-October. [UPDATE: Sources have confirmed that Jessen stepped down from the position last Sunday.] In late 2001, Jessen and James Mitchell (both clinical psychologist…

Anti-Semitism Survey Reveals Growing Problem at US Colleges

By Gordon Haber

…zed and underreported 5. A significant minority of Jewish students say anti-Israel protest targets Jews 6. The majority of non-Jewish students do not hold opinions on Israel All of the above is troubling. Sort of. Because you have to wonder how the IJCR defines anti-Semitism and how their questions about it were expressed on the survey. Does the use of the word “confirm” suggest that the questions were leading? I’m also curious about the term “…

Pew Survey Skews Christian

By Hussein Rashid

…s about transubstantiation, the belief that bread and wine of the Catholic communion is turned into the body and blood of Christ. Most other questions are descriptive: When is the Muslim month of fasting (Q5)? When does the Jewish sabbath begin (Q4)? The only question that is near-theological is Q14, which asks about nirvana. The question is framed in such a way that it could also be descriptive, akin to “what religion believes in heaven with ange…

The Atheist Encounter with Christianity: A Failure to Disbelieve?

By Paul Wallace

…t resonates deeply with lived human experience. A true myth brings one face-to-face with reality and has nothing to do with literalism or the ignoring of scientific evidence. To get to my point: There is found in each of these excerpts, a disconnect between the author’s idea of Christianity and what Christianity actually is. Admittedly, these comments may have been written off-the-cuff and perhaps there was not time or space to elaborate fully, bu…