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The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…swer to life is not being honored by playing Carnegie Hall and getting the high-paying, prestigious job), it’s not clear what sort of motivation there would be. Similarly, if you’re not innately inspired to want to kick China’s butt, if you ask why?, you are likely to be met with blank stares at best, and accusations of insufficient patriotism at worst. Let me tip my hand. As someone who has lived and traveled all over the world, I find jing…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…olice detained the women for four days, and released them into a government-run, week-long religious “rehabilitation” center. Kumolo needs to recognize that cancelling laws that discriminate against women and LGBT people should be a greater priority than regulations “about investments.” Until the Indonesian government revokes discriminatory Sharia bylaws in Aceh, women and LGBT people will remain vulnerable to violations of their basic rights and…

What If Animals Believe in God?

By Andrew Aghapour

…re is the ability to acknowledge our own deep intuitions that, say, my four-year-old is in touch with something that’s not just material, but is something we’d want to call religious. So excluding animals from religion amounts to a kind of intellectual gerrymandering? Yeah, I think that’s a good way to put it. Excluding animals, when we look carefully, ends up forcing us to conclusions we don’t necessarily want to accept. It is a kind of gerrymand…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…o (indirectly) advance their views on religion. Scholars, while independent-minded, become part of that cycle, whether they know it or not. For the hundreds of citations we make in our own paper presentations or journal articles, how many of those citations were influenced/shaped by one special interest or another? And this is true in any field of study (activism, for example, led to the creation of African-American Studies, women’s studies, queer…

The Mormon Moment?

By Joanna Brooks

…n Wall Street and by the CIA! But it’s not as interesting as the story rank-and-file Mormon bloggers are telling about Mormonism as it enters the 21st century. Here are some key elements of the story Newsweek missed: 1. Spectacular growth rates for the LDS Church once predicted by non-LDS sociologists have failed to materialize. In fact, despite a substantial international missionary force, LDS Church growth rates are flatlining in the U.S. and i…

“Moral Conflict” On Abortion A Result of Anti-Choice Advocacy

By Sarah Posner

…i-choice activists and the majority of Americans. (There even may be a less-discussed sub-conflict between religious rhetoric and reality, as recent data from the Guttmacher Institute shows that three-quarters of women who have abortions describe themselves as “religiously affiliated;” one in five women having abortions are evangelical.) As the Rev. Carlton Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, put it in a statement…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…like global terror. After the Paris attacks, a chart kept popping up on my newsfeed. It showed a circle that represented the entire world Muslim population, and three tiny small circles that represented the relative size of these different extremist groups. Reading your book, though, it struck me that that graph—as attractive as it is to me—probably wouldn’t change a lot of people’s minds if they’re Islamophobic. I don’t want to say that the hiera…

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…ive Catholic/evangelical alliance, The Manhattan Declaration. As an up-and-coming evangelical leader, he has also been busy denouncing proposed federal regulations on contraception coverage in employer insurance packages. But he is unique in employing his status as a Bonhoeffer scholar to claim parallels between the regulations and early Nazi-era legislation, as he did, for example, in an appearance on MSNBC. The Bonhoeffer book itself has drawn…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…ch me.” Shocked was not challenged by organizers or staff. Some of the less-than-affirming messages came from official programming. Tony and Peggy Campolo gave their much-practiced talk, touted in the program as “a model of how to disagree agreeably,” about their differences on the matter of LGBT affirmation (she’s “for,” and he’s “against.”). Off-stage, Campolo lectured LGBT audience members who approached him that “when either side imposes its v…

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…the $40 million raised by the Yes on 8 campaign and the majority of its on-the-ground volunteer labor force. Today, a vocal minority of Mormon progressives are celebrating the Court rulings. Said Spencer Clark, the head of Mormons for Marriage Equality, “We heartily applaud the decision of the US Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8. This is a victory for hundreds of thousand…