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“Soul Freedom” versus “Christian Nation”: Exploring the Legacy of Roger Williams

By Becky Garrison

…granted religious liberty grudgingly, often opposing pluralism in terms of new religious communions or divergent voices. This led to exile and imprisonment of Baptists, hanging Quakers, shooting Mormons in Illinois in 1840s, shooting Catholics in Louisville in 1850s, desecrating synagogues, mosques and certain sectarian/ethnic-based churches consistently. Faith communities and individuals of faith should exercise rights of conscience in the way th…

The Difference Between Conservatives and Liberals, or, How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

By Daniel Schultz

…strictly necessary to wade through that whole thing. Just ask yourself two questions: 1. Does the God of Glenn Beck (or whoever) guarantee the traditional social order, or is this God work free to work outside the lines of the supposedly immutable Way Things Have Always Been? 2. Does this God hear the cries of the poor, or is he a patron of the elite? Answer those two questions, and you’ll know if you’re dealing with a conservative believer or a l…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…father, sent to school with shaved heads for not selling enough candy door-to-door to support the family, or made to leave class during any discussion of history that referred to religion or singing of Christmas carols. Always made to feel different and largely forbidden from socializing outside the family, their alienation became so great it made going home to their father’s violent rage seem safe and normal. When they were home, Nate says, no o…

A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

By Robert M. Geraci and Nat Recine

…nities, debate morality, find meaning, and experience transcendence. The on-the-ground experience of SWTOR is frequently morally progressive, and undermines claims about the supposed evils of online gaming. Star Wars: The Old Republic provides its players with an opportunity to do moral work and envision a more just world even while exploring the darker side of human nature. All of this is to say that we ought to slow down when we read that videog…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…rican troops is sacred through and through, energies that in subtle and not-so-subtle ways strengthen the bonds that tie many Americans together and reinforce a distinctive American identity. On the other hand, what’s more surprising is that peace doesn’t appear to have a chance, and any oppositional movements are absent or at best anemic. And forget about any religiously-inspired critique of this never-ending conflict, since there are apparently…

The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…the caricature of a curmudgeonly, conservative Catholic prelate, or an out-of-touch shepherd confounded by contemporary culture and the actual lives of his flock. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago at the inauguration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, May 2011. Photo by Photobra/Adam Bielawski via WikiCommons During my decade as the religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, I spent a lot of time with the cardinal in Chicago and abroad. In fact I probably w…

Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…r himself, scanned the nearby graves and pointed to an inscription for a 23-year-old woman who died in 1931. “My aunt passed before I was born. She had an illegal abortion,” he said as if our unfamiliarity gave him permission to unearth a family secret. “What a shame,” was all I could muster, having heard the start of a story I did not expect to hear. “It should never happen,” was the curt response. He quickly thanked me for the service, got into…

Cafeteria Christianity in the Age of Social Media: What’s Old Is New Again

By Kate Blanchard

…modern era. But most traditions have at least some who take a my-way-or-the-highway approach and have particular shibboleths upon which no compromise is possible. (What would mainstream religion coverage look like without them?) Nevertheless, despite the best efforts of those who would make their traditions an all-or-nothing proposition, human beings have gone on picking and choosing, if perhaps never quite as unabashedly as young Americans in the…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats, and so on. That view misses the bigger and potentially bloodier point. Democracy’s Dark Side In America, we’re accustomed to believing democracy and diversity go hand in hand—we are obviously pluralistic. But that’s because we assimilate different individuals to a single national identity. Canada’s challenge with Quebecois…

Dubious Diversity at America Mag

By Patricia Miller

…” was “the best thing we ever did.” Alvaré was the spokesperson for the pro-life committee from 1990 until 2000, where she frequently testified before Congress on behalf of the bishops’ efforts to limit access to abortion. She was also a leading proponent of efforts to delegitimize U.S. family planning funding, and contraception use in general, by making unsubstantiated claims such as “when you give money to groups that not only promote contracept…