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White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…as the “blatant denial of gender differences adds to the disorientation of American’s working class.” Ah, so that’s what’s got working America gasping for breath! It’s not that good-paying jobs in the manufacturing sector of the economy have pretty much evaporated; it’s not that a majority of the Americans who work now make less than $30,000 per year for their trouble; it’s not that service sector employers have created a wretched temp economy in…

Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hat those three criticisms appear to conflict with each other. How can one manage to be all at once a tepid puddle of politeness, and a rigid politically-correct squadron battering down the doors of hapless churches in the heartland and setting fire to any hymnal with the word mankind in it, and a bunch of chin-stroking tweed-clad fogeys unaware of anything after the Enlightenment? Eh, who knows? But allegedly we’ve managed it, as our critics are…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…, six-foot-tall Cylon prototype that her essence is trapped in. She’s also managed to access Adama’s daughter Tamara, and takes Tamara along to Club V with her and Lacy. The decision to let Tamara go off on her own in Club V without Lacy and Zoe will definitely have some interesting ramifications, since she does not seem to be aware of her “avatar” status, and still thinks she’s human—even though she can’t feel her heart beating. Sister Clarice, m…

Religious Freedom is Impossible… Compared to What?

By Austin Dacey

…r” as an “eminently malleable category that can be deployed to advance any number of competing ends.” Perhaps when she claims that the category of religion has reached the end of its useful life, Sullivan is not suggesting that it serves no one’s purposes, but rather that it serves no defensible purposes. Perhaps hers is fundamentally a moral case, a case about the injustice of protecting “religious freedom.” Then the claim would not be that such…

You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…television so often, you hardly think you can be surprised by anything an American says anymore. But “The Party surrenders” was an instance of legitimate astonishment for me. In Arabic, Islam means “surrender”—as in, surrendering oneself to God. I’m not sure if that was a deliberate resonance, but the coincidence is telling. Because Douthat just compared the most Islamophobic candidate in American history to Islam. Trump is the guy who, may I rem…

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…hate at all. This is big conceptual shift for most ordinary Christians to manage, needless to say. But I believe that McLaren is absolutely right to argue that it’s not possible to break open a fossilized and socially regressive American Christianity without first breaking apart the bad theology that places an all-powerful and thoroughly vindictive God at the center of the universe. Before they can be liberated to struggle and serve in what McLar…

The Night of Power: Laylatul Qadri

By Amina Wadud

…eturning to the mosque after midnight. I had no major epiphany and did not manage to do the one thing I had hoped to do on a practical level—and that was complete the remaining few parts of the Qur’an. Just to have that sense of accomplishment. I guess I can say, I did not get a lightbulb moment. Neither the grandiose kind of “experiencing” the power of Laylatul Qadri, or the pragmatic kind of a job well done. Our weekend retreat is done, most of…

Discrimination on the Taxpayer’s Dime? The Fight To Curtail the Overreach of RFRA

By Sarah Posner

…ntracts,” and could present a RFRA claim. But Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said RFRA “should not be invoked to discriminate or harm others, especially in context of government-funded social services.” The government, Mach said, “has a vital interest in preventing discrimination in taxpayer-funded jobs.” Applying the World Vision Memo Beyond Hiring Although on its face…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…he 1990s. But the internet has profoundly impacted the Church’s ability to manage messaging and information and breached the boundaries of the still socially insular community. Studies show that rates of disaffiliation have risen significantly among Mormons in the first decade of the twenty-first century. According to a survey of more than 3,000 disaffiliated Mormons conducted by the Open Stories Foundation, thorny historical issues top the list o…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…administration and the mandate. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of white Catholics who said the Obama administration was “unfriendly to religion” more than doubled from 17 percent to 36 percent between 2009 and 2014. And starting around 2012, white Catholics broke for the GOP by historic margins. It’s also worth noting, as Michael Sean Winters has, that this occurred around the time the administrative staff of the bishops’ confer…