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Sanders Gets “B-” for Religious Outreach at Liberty U Appearance

…economic inequality like a six-year-old on sugar. (I’d say like a college student on beer, but you know. Liberty University and all that.) If Twitter is any indication, his fans loved the speech, and everybody else just sort of shrugged. No new ground was broken. Unlike my esteemed RD colleague Sarah Posner, I thought Sanders took most of the usual advice pols get on religion: talk about toning down partisan divides, talk about commonalities, tal…

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Millennials Invent New Religion: No Hell, No Priests, No Punishment

…comparative religion class I teach at a local community college, I ask my students to divide into groups and create a religion from whole cloth. “All religions were invented at some point,” I offered, reminding him that while Jesus may have assigned Peter to be the rock upon which the church would be built, it was up to everyone else to determine the details. It’s fascinating to watch the young (with a smattering of older) students invent a new b…

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About That “Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage”

…ing-esque activism). As I reported in that 2011 story, Staver cited to his students an example of one of his own clients, Lisa Miller, an “ex-lesbian” charged with kidnapping her daughter to avoid complying with a court order awarding custody to her ex-partner: This student and two others, who all requested anonymity for fear of reprisal by Staver (who is also the law school’s dean), recounted the classroom discussion of civil disobedience, as wel…

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What Can Fascination With ‘Sister Cindy’ Teach Us About the ‘None’ Generation?

…eing. They embraced her denunciatory labels as badges of honor. Some queer students watched with apparent good humor as she condemned their sexual orientation. Several Jewish students cheered as she declared they could only avoid eternal torture by converting to Christ (which she declared “the most Jewish thing” they could do). Tri Delta sisters came out en masse, screeching with pleasure when Brother Jed (Cindy’s husband and cut-rate collaborator…

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As a Religious Studies Professor I Disagreed With the Hamline Firing — But Now I’ve Changed My Mind

…seded academic freedom.” Later she said, “it was important that our Muslim students, as well as other students, feel safe, supported, and respected both in and out of the classroom.” For the record, I do not see López Prater’s actions as “Islamophobic”; Edward Ahmed Mitchell’s term “un-Islamic” seems much more accurate. But “undeniably inconsiderate” seems fair. In the end, what might have been a valuable learning moment has instead become a lose-…

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Dialogue or Demonization? Where Gays are Concerned, Focus on the Family Wants it Both Ways

…s is the lack of attention to how to listen to others. Amid discussions of student’s legal rights to participate, parental advice, and access to ready-made conversation cards and posters, there is scant attention to the meaning of the day’s very title: “Dialogue.” (That is, with the exception of a page dedicated to “Responding to Challenges” students might encounter and the advice to avoid speaking in overused slogans like “hate the sin, not the s…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…enforcement abuse. Twenty years ago, when I worked for the independent BYU student newspaper Student Review, we regularly ran exposés on honor code enforcement abuses of students whose differences—anything from protesting the Iraq War, to having a tattoo, to being black—made them vulnerable in a community that placed a high priority on conformity. In 1994, the Student Review also ran a story alleging widespread alcohol use by star basketball, foot…

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AP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”

…agine one of my students writing a whole thesis on it. I would advise that student to start by asking: Who exactly are the “friends” for whom over 4,000 U.S. warriors have laid down their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan? Let’s stick to the text, I’d say (in good academic fashion). The first clue it gives us is that they have died “for the cause of freedom.” So presumably the “friends” for whom they died are people whose freedom they were gaining, o…

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Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

…en he says the game transcends all race, creeds, and tongues. In that, the student of theology revels in the grandeur, emotion, and beauty of a clear moment of human interconnectedness. It is the student of ethics, however, that lets her eyes wander further beyond the pitch. With that drift the existential beauty becomes more complicated, potentially tragic. The Long Shadow of Apartheid Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon will get more eyes than most this ye…

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As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

…sed not on the Jewish community writ large but particularly on the “Jewish student”—those whom today we call “heritage students,” who take Jewish Studies courses to affirm, enhance, or cultivate their identities as Jews. This is also why Greenberg argues that resources for Jewish Studies should be focused on universities with a high density of Jewish students. Greenberg’s vision dovetailed with the formative concerns of the AJS: concern for the Je…

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