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Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

…al. So, in order to honor Hughes’ malapropism, RD consulted with a pair of Seattle bartenders to produce this original cocktail recipe (such a cocktail in fact already existed, but ours is designed especially with the Trump campaign in mind). You can make it for your election night viewing party, feature it at your next Jewish event, or sip it alone while contemplating the ambient anti-Semitism that has surrounded the Trump campaign. L’chaim! Maze…

“Under God…It’s a Great Thing”: Trump Delivers for His Christian Base

By Diane Winston

…odist minister, began prayer breakfasts for the rich and powerful in 1930s Seattle. After years of serving the poor, Vereide decided that social change would more likely come from influencing politicians and businessmen. Vereide was so successful that he moved to Washington DC to set up prayer breakfasts for congressmen and other local leaders. In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower was elected president, Vereide, his protégé Senator Frank Carlson, and e…

You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

…about women, were simply disqualifying. Aaron Cho, an associate pastor at Seattle’s Quest Church, works in a vibrant multiethnic, multiracial congregation that, he says, embraces women in leadership positions, affirms refugees, and embraces racial reconciliation. “These are all core convictions that we have had for years” he tells RD. “It was really hard to navigate seeing his platform getting so much support when it is contrary to the message of…

Tennessee Anti-Evolution Update

By Lauri Lebo

…oning.” The bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes intelligent design. David Fowler, head of the conservative Christian Family Action Council of Tennessee, which is affiliated with Focus on the Family, and is one of the bill’s primary lobbyists. In defending the bill’s language, he has tried to draw on comparisons to the famous Scopes monkey trial that took pl…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…calling for the organization to revoke the policy. Within InterVarsity, a number of LGBTQ and ally staff, including Vasquez, have formed “the Queer Collective,” which for months has been pressing executive leaders for unity amid theological differences. They have elevated stories of LGBTQ-affirming people in the organization and documented the mental health impact of LGBTQ exclusion. Despite their advocacy, InterVarsity announced its policy in a…

How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride

By Joseph Winters

Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference, opting instead to give a plainspoken but powerful speech on the police killings of black men and the damage it does to black communities, especially the youth with whom he volunteers. He said: When you tell a kid, “When you’re dealing with police, just put your hands up and comply with everything,” and there’s still a chance of them getti…

It’s Complicated: When “None” Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It

By Tucker FitzGerald

…st-like person in the room. Another time I sat in a dear friend’s one room Seattle micro apartment as they welcomed friends back home. The group had all graduated from an elite, private, evangelical Christian high school that cost as much per semester as my seminary had. They had composed the school’s “Geography Club”. Ostensibly for students with enthusiasm regarding geography to gather and share in their common love. In practice, it was the scho…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…f the total revenue of American religious congregations. To get that final number, the Grims took one estimate of the total number of congregations in America (344,894) and multiplied it by another estimate of the average revenue of each ($242,910). Depending on how you look at it, $378 billion is a lot of money, or it’s not very much money at all. It’s more than the net worth of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet, combined…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…an religiosity—about religion as it is lived in the United States today? A number of what I would see as problems in the Pew report suggest to me that our growing fixation with religion-by-the-numbers may be distracting us from richer, more nuanced understandings of American religious practice. Wanted: A Community that Doesn’t Share My Beliefs and Values Take the demographic category of “Nones” itself. The Pew report notes the difficulty with sur…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…their sexual orientation. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers “that the global response to the Pulse nightclub massacre is a direct challenge to the so-called Islamic State and those ‘who foster hate and division’ in the U.S. and abroad.” Activists worried about the potential for additional attacks against LGBT events. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reported that “anti-immigrant politicians in Europe seized…