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2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…e with the religious community to lobby for greater acceptance of LGBT Israelis in religious life, and the other is to raise awareness among members of the public.” Her most visible campaign, titled ‘Our Faces’, targets young, in-the-closet Israelis who perceive a contradiction between religious observance and homosexuality. The campaign, launched two years ago, produces and ublicizes headshot collages of headshots of members of Israel’s Orthodox…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…s to give criminals their just desserts. The endorsement of punishment is relatively uniform across all groups. More than three-quarters of the public see punishment as the primary justification for sentencing. More than 70 percent believe that incapacitation is the only sure way to prevent future crimes, and more than three-quarters believe that the courts are too easy on criminals. This appears to be true not just for capital-C crimes like murde…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…illed when she created RBG needlepoint kits for each woman to make. “They felt she was a role model, such a strong woman.” They expressed that admiration in thread. Matter matters in Justice Ginsburg’s memorialization and emerging hagiography. When you see a white lace collar over a black robe, she is the first person who comes to mind. As Americans mourned her death, memorials popped up all over the country. Of all the votives offered in her memo…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…hance. It was exasperating. He was getting testy. Lalonde, who has been a believer in evangelical movies since he saw his first rapture movie as a kid in a church basement in the 1970s, was frustrated at accusations that the remake was just about money. He was exhausted by questions about whether Nicolas Cage could do a good job as an actor in an evangelical film, since he wasn’t “covered in the blood of the lamb.” He was exasperated at people tel…

Why I Am Still a Christian

By Diana Butler Bass

…not-religious” and the “church alumni club.” And those who might be completely post-religious and just want to read a good story about interesting people in the past. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I always want my readers—of my books, blogs, or articles—to say, “I’ve never really seen the world from that angle before.” It is more than information; I always hope to provide some transformative vision into…

Women’s Ordination Horrifies Traditionalist Anglican Clergy

By Kate Childs Graham

…ension. Voices on the side of women’s ordination in the Church of England believed that the legislation did not go far enough. Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich and a support of women bishops stated: I believe that women should and will be ordained to the episcopate but what I see before me in the proposed legislation is an episcopacy so damaged and fractured as to be scarcely worthy of the name…I cannot see any amendments that would render it s…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…it’s a vital question. Yet it’s also an easy question to approach in an unhelpful way. Precisely because sexual abuse is appallingly common, compassionate people look for patterns to explain why it happened in this instance and not that one. And that’s a good thing: abuse prevention means recognizing common patterns and then looking for interventions that are likely to keep abuse from happening. But our pattern-seeking human brains can also steer…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…le in America’s democracy. Ironically, one of the most vocal proponent of religious activism in politics is Mike Huckabee himself, who has repeatedly called Americans to “take this nation back for Christ” and who, while running for president, proudly declared that “what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Joel Beinin of Stanford University, writing at Middle East Channel, also notes how the Brotherhood was late…

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…d, they have styled their own compromise,” he says, “[and yet] they also feel an unbearable sense of loneliness and despair.” But the extent to which Cohen understands his own motivations for journeying into Christendom is unclear. “I’m hoping to find something in a church that will reconnect me to my Judaism,” he writes, a sentiment that elsewhere he codifies into the more marketable slogan “I want Jesus to make me a better Jew.” But what does th…

Whistleblower Alleges $100B Hoarding Scandal by LDS Church; But There’s An Easy Fix

By Andrew L. Seidel

…which American churches operate leads to copious fraud and abuse. Experts believe that the lack of transparency makes religious charities “among the most vulnerable entities.” This void victimizes the faithful—those who willingly give up a portion of their income—more than anyone else. There is no legal or constitutional roadblock to demanding transparency from all the nation’s churches and no viable claim that it violates religious freedom. Tax e…