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Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…ley on the show to vow that if anyone harasses young Mr. Phillips, he will come to the school and bring with him “a world of pain.” Foley also said that he would rip out the harasser’s small intestine and use the person as a human tether ball. See? Adorable. (Actually, can you imagine Will’s day at school the next day? That must have been priceless.) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Gaywatch – Peter Vadala & William Phillips<a…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…Ziegler Hemingway about religion and politics was featured on the NYTimes.com site, others argue that journalism has replaced religion as the source of public morality. Or does religion reporting serve as public therapy? Offering a pularistic balm to the wounds of religious difference. At the Guardian, they wonder if inmates should get religion in prison and the American Association for the Advancement of Science tries to help scientists get reli…

The Social Cost of Atheism

By Lauri Lebo

…inor social repercussions in the workplace if they came out as an atheist, compared to only 35 percent of respondents in Canada, 24 percent of Australians, 15 percent of residents of United Kingdom, and 12 percent of Western Europeans. More than two-thirds of Americans said they would suffer stigma in their community and 61 percent said they would suffer stigma from their family. When broken down in by region in the U.S., those who live in Souther…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…not followers of Christ? Or do people stop being Christians only when they commit or are alleged to have planned to commit violent crimes? If so, having appointed ourselves as the arbiters of apostasy, we then cannot describe such people as Christian terrorists or Christian militias because by definition they have auto-excommunicated themselves. Finally, what terms we use depends on the occasion. While the media term of choice for the Hutaree was…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…environment, you simply don’t know where to plug this port in. You long to commune with a holy, green, transpersonal home, but you realize that you are destroying the closest thing you’ve got to that. It’s time to get back to the garden, your spirit whispers to you, but there is no garden, it appears, to get back to, and, what’s worse, it’s all your fault. As symptoms of PAEDD intensify, what was once considered merely unsustainable becomes unendu…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…aths of liberal Supreme Court Justices? Pondering such matters led me to a comment thread about Robertson on Salon.com. Amid the predictable responses (much hateful mocking, a few claims that he was quoted out of context, and conflations of his Christianity with “religion” at large) someone posed this challenge: Given that all Muslims are incessantly challenged to repudiate Osama bin Laden, why aren’t liberal Christians under similar pressure to r…

Graham Whistles “Dixie” on Morning Joe

By Anthea Butler

…eek” Easter Sunday in 2011, when host Christiane Amanpour interviewed him, complaining that he couldn’t understand why President Obama had not produced his birth certificate. He also took the opportunity to brag about his own Christianity and to question Obama’s definition of what a Christian is against his own. Moreover, he continued to repeat, and he did on Morning Joe, that Obama’s Muslim heritage was conferred because his father was a muslim….

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…h a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.” Still, McConkie’s own book, Mormon Doctrine, which propounded racist legitimations for the priesthood ban, remained for sale in LDS bookstores and on the shelves of LDS homes. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when questioned about the ban in public, LDS Church leaders continued to sidestep its origins and rationale. Mormons hungry for a more direct appr…

It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging

By Hollis Phelps

…ntification to stated, or even non-stated, beliefs. Religion is a far more complicated affair, encompassing a convoluted mix of material practices, along with other identities as well. It’s also not clear the extent to which the proposed research definition is biased, and this hinders its usefulness. One could argue that isolating particular beliefs from political demographics actually allows for a greater appreciation of the relationship between…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…the protests against the mosques, the standard stuff—the stories that kept coming up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJQr1Go9ldw&t=2s You work as an actor, a writer, a comedian, in a lot of creative spaces. What’s the line between free speech and bigotry? Wow. What is the line between free speech and bigotry? Look, there’s always going to be free speech, and it’s a fundamental right. We are allowed to speak our minds. But bigotry will always exis…