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Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…s with, and who has supported them their whole lives,” said Paquette. “So that’s definitely somewhere that we could grow,” she added without hesitation, noting that they could add essays to the resources or new scenarios that address sensitivity toward the experiences of believers and would-be believers. The desire to make the app work better seems sincere from the interface itself: Atheos features an option for users to leave comments on each of…

Fear Not, The IRS Isn’t Colluding With Angry Atheists

By Sarah Posner

…enforcement of its anti-electioneering provisions.” Responding to charges that there was an agreement that the IRS would “monitor” churches, FFRF added that it “did not withdraw its suit pursuant to any agreement to ‘monitor’ sermons and homilies for proscribed speech with which FFRF disagrees. As the court documents state, FFRF withdrew the case because it ‘is satisfied that the IRS does not have a policy at this time of non-enforcement specific…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…at the meeting of two streams the ‘sacredness’ of the first river add to that of the second one,” or what I describe in my book as being the reality of a place “almost preternaturally charged with a broken beauty, a tinge of the numinous throughout the landscape itself.” There is a certain God-intoxication here. More than that, however, and central to my argument is that Pittsburgh’s archetypal history—a frontier town founded by settler-colonials…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…tion has been challenged in the way that a workout can be challenging, so that you know that at the end of it, greater health and strength has come of it. We’ve had more visitors than we have in a long time. The youth of the church have engaged in the anti-racism work with the spirit of this is good, but why aren’t we being bolder? Our intention in this has been to invite people into the life-changing, ancient Christian practice of fasting. Fastin…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…angelical fundamentalists, they wrote, is the xenophobia and Islamophobia that promotes “walls and purifying deportations.” “Triumphalist, arrogant and vindictive ethnicism is actually the opposite of Christianity,” they said. AP’s Rachel Zoll called La Civilta Cattolica Antonio Spadaro “a close confidant” of Pope Francis. Conservative Archbishop Charles Chaput responded in a commentary, calling the article “an exercise in dumbing down and inadequ…

Sanctuary and the Second Amendment: Do Guns Deserve Special Protection?

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…Indeed, the tradition of sacred spaces as gun-free (weapon-free, violence-free, force-free) zones makes the use of sanctuary language in recent “Second Amendment Sanctuary” legislation curious. The turn from the use of “sanctuary” from its origins in restricting vengeance, violent enforcement, and weaponry to the protection of gun-keeping within the sanctuary borders, while rhetorically brilliant, feels particularly cynical when research shows th…

Kentucky-Fried Christianity: Governor Matt Bevin Wants to Pray Away Violence in Louisville

By Spencer Dew

…d inequality? Bevin, who said that those who oppose his prayer initiative “hate God” and suggested that his critics in the clergy would be bound, on Judgment Day, for damnation, rejects any way of seeing the world in which the individual is not an agent of free choice—a conception of the Christian soul that fits with the wider American notion of the citizen as consumer, as Sean McCloud has detailed in his fascinating American Possessions. Bevin’s…

Court Rules in Favor of For-Profit Employer Seeking Exemption from Contraception Rule

By Sarah Posner

…be required to provide contraception coverage under their self-insurance that that provide to the company’s employees, and that the government had not implemented the least restrictive means of carrying out a compelling government interest. The case is significant because most of the other lawsuits involve religious institutions, such as hospitals, schools, and Catholic dioceses, rather than private, for-profit companies. Judge John L. Kane reje…

Obama Administration Gives Free Pass for Faith-Based Groups to Discriminate

By Sarah Posner

…arise with respect to these programs and try to ensure that we—make sure that we ensure that we fully comply with all of the applicable laws. SCOTT: Does that mean they can discriminate… ISSA: The gentleman’s time has expired. SCOTT: I think it was a yes or no answer? ISSA: OK. Mr. Attorney General, go on and if you would, answer the question? HOLDER: As I said, we try to do this—we look at these policies and try to make sure that they do—they ac…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Nazi,” since this was not an insult but a “value judgment based on facts” that’s covered by freedom of opinion. Both rulings are telling given Germany’s strict libel laws. Those who argue against defensive measures often claim that it would be fundamentally un-democratic to protect democracy through such restrictions. The “paradox of tolerance,” as philosopher Karl Popper called it, describes the biggest internal conundrum democracies have to solv…