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“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…nt on a Love Wins book tour, made the cover of Time, and left Michigan for California to develop a television show. After that project fell through Bell developed a talk show for Oprah’s OWN network, and he recently joined her on the eight-city “The Life You Want” tour. (Oprah “has taught me more about what Jesus has for all of us, and what kind of life Jesus wants us to live, more than almost anybody in my life,” Bell told Religion News Service i…

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

By Xarissa Holdaway

…ter all. Patrick J. Nolan, the former Republican leader in the assembly in California, who served time after being caught in an FBI sting known as “Shrimpscam,” said to PBS NewsHour, “I think we have incarcerated a lot of people we’re not afraid of, we’re just mad at.” Is it possible that, despite all our good intentions and rhetoric, what we’re really looking for is revenge? Justice does not require revenge Shortly before his sentencing, Dzhokhar…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…long shot. There are only slightly fewer than 500,000 Southern Baptists in California, for example, which sounds like a lot until you realize that it’s about 1 percent of the population. In other places loaded with the religiously unaffiliated, such as Oregon or Washington state, the SBC is virtually unknown. It would take a tremendous amount of time, energy, and money to expand the church in places with rich potential for new converts. Even if th…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…for Roof’s actions; or those who, after Elliot Rodger’s shooting spree in California, blamed white male privilege. I don’t mean to equate Islamism with patriarchy and white supremacy. “Islamism,” which reflects a fairly specific set of institutions and political positions, is regularly used as code for “most of Islam.” And those who obsesses about Islamism often flirt with more bald-faced statements of Islamophobia. Critics of white supremacy and…

The Sacred and the Dead: Deadheads Are Not a Deviant Subculture

By Deborah J. Baiano Berman

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California To marginalize Deadheads is to do them a grave injustice. In my thesis I did not want to refer to them simply as a subculture, a “less-than” culture. I believe that Deadheads should, instead, be understood for what makes them universal—and not as an exception, but rather as a prime example of natural human association, what Rousseau calls socialité. The community…

Sterilization Denial for Woman with Brain Tumor Highlights Religious Liberty Conflict

By Patricia Miller

…preliminary sucess. Mercy Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Northern California, recently relented and allowed a woman to have a tubal when the ACLU threatened to sue for sex discrimination under state law. For now, the ACLU of Michigan has sent a letter to Genesys invoking state law that prohibits hospitals from failing to exercise due care or provide the accepted standard of care and asking it to reconsider the case “in light of the hospit…

Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”

By Peter Montgomery

…he former CEO of Mozilla who was chased out of that company for supporting California’s Proposition 8. Dreher renews an earlier call for what he calls the Benedict Option: One can certainly understand the joy that LGBT Americans and their supporters feel today. But orthodox Christians must understand that things are going to get much more difficult for us. We are going to have to learn how to live as exiles in our own country. We are going to have…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Wheaton is a school that had (and still has) a long list of ways you were supposed to believe, behave, and become. It was constructs of truths built upon so many constructs of truths that real truth didn’t matter anymore. Wheaton continues to be a place where intellectual dishonesty is favored over difficult truths. Fundamentalist and conservative evangelical mod…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California While the location changed from concert to concert, Deadheads found the same spiritual camaraderie and community in whatever parking lot, field, arena, or festival grounds they found themselves in as they followed the band across the country and in some cases around the world. Inside the sound, swaying and dancing and spinning with abandon, many of the Dead’s fan…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…laboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California It is in that compassion, non-judgmental love, and grace extended to the dispossessed that I see a resonance with the teaching of my tradition, which repeatedly tells of Jesus’ radical commitment to love everyone, family, friend, or foe. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that just as God “makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the…