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Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…t of free speech, but it is also incumbent to teach the responsibilities accompanying free speech; that of accuracy, civility, truth and good taste.” —David Barton If any question remains about the religious and political motivations of certain members of the Texas Board of Education, one need only read the words of their social studies curriculum experts. Rev. Peter Marshall (one of their appointed academic experts), for example, wants to restore…

The Contraceptive Mandate and Animal Suffering

By Frances Kissling

…ther blogs has accused Singer of an “advocacy sleight of hand” in equating freedom of religion with “freedom to worship.” Smith and his crowd want not only an expanded definition of what is to be a religion, they want any activity a group or individual claims is “religious” to fall outside the scope of government control. He says “the exercise of one’s religion involves how the faithful live their lives outside of the church, synagogue, temple, or…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…people and scaring the hell out of others: the stadium rally was its stock-in-trade—the praise band, the testimonies, the marriage advice, the Jumbotron video collage, the tearful reconciliations between father and son. The hugeness of these events and their emotive power were key ingredients to the spectacle. It was something to be seen, something to be felt. At the Boulder rally this past weekend, much was familiar to anyone who followed PK dur…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ications include an article called “The Myth of Sexual Orientation,” and a book, co-authored with WCF founder Allan Carlson, called The Natural Family: A Manifesto. So how did a straight, married father of six, who’s spent most of his 30-year career professionally opposing LGBT equality, emerge as one of the few religiously adherent voices calling not only for mere tolerance of LGBT rights, but also for passive acceptance of legal equality? And, m…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…anding American standards that (at least in theory) champion a vibrant and open socio-political national conversation. Finally, draft versions of the president’s proposed immigration restriction suggest that all the nations involved will be Muslim-majority nations, which makes is difficult to square with the principle of religious freedom. As The Atlantic explained: “If implemented, the Trump administration’s order would suspend the entire U.S. Re…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…’s premise is as formulaic as it is thrilling. The handsome and personality-free hero Robert Langdon, a professor of “symbology” at Harvard, must try to rescue a friend in danger: his mentor and confidant, the rich and powerful Peter Solomon. The mysterious kidnapper isn’t interested in money, though. He’s after secret knowledge that Solomon possesses as a high-ranking Mason. The villain forces him to admit that there is a secret Masonic pyramid c…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…d. Words leaped out at her from the newspapers, signs, and cartons. Crash, high-way, salt, tires. The world was suddenly full of words that Ramona could read.” Cleary’s stories about the wrong words—including Ramona’s attempt at a shocking curse word (“Guts!”)—are sometimes funny, but her books are the opposite of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” Isn’t it funny when children try on words? Maybe. And, if you laugh at them, they may stop talking to y…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…ns. The process of remembering, rebuilding through story, is incredibly eye-opening. And the temptation is always to make it into a neat narrative, instead of to actually pay attention and say: where are the ragged edges in this story? Instead, make it a parable, not a fable. A fable has a point, a single moral, but a parable is like a koan. It just opens up more and more layers of meaning. You can get lost in a parable. It can mean all kinds of t…

As Pat Robertson Retires, Here Are 10 of His Most Cringeworthy Moments

By Chrissy Stroop

…nd 55 hosting its signature “news” magazine broadcast, The 700 Club, the 91-year-old Southern Baptist minister and Christian media mogul Pat Robertson is retiring. Many religion journalists and commentators are writing about the news in ways that normalize Robertson, a right-wing Christian extremist whose legacy shouldn’t be soft-pedaled. This piece is meant in part as a corrective. To be sure, many of the outlandish things Robertson has said over…

South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Called “Raghead”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntended in jest,” Knotts said in a statement. “Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ “Since my intended humorous context was lost in translation, I apologize. I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not, much as Obama did, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur.” But, as the Free Times reports…