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The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads

By Peter Laarman

…it’s hard to explain why they would by buying into (or borrowing into) the high-priced college sweepstakes to begin with. Unfortunately, even as cries of “Go to college!” grow louder, the premium received for taking that costly plunge grows ever smaller. Higher Ed’s dirty little secret is that real earnings for U.S. college graduates have declined since 2000 (and were already declining before the onset of the Great Recession), even as the number o…

Should Biden Reach Out to White Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…ing by the Public Research Religion Institute showing Donald Trump with sky-high approval among WEPs in March, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, but a 10-point drop a month later. Cue predictions of doom. The president’s approval was sky-high across all demographics in March, because he was at the time enjoying what’s called, among demographers, the “rally around the flag” effort. As the country faced an emergency, many people who would n…

Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ally excommunicate themselves. It all sounds rather contorted. In this soon-to-be-published document, the ordination of women is said to be spelled out as one of those dicey matters which is not only a violation of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but so serious as to warrant the attention of Rome. Perhaps they reason that the women’s ordination cases will keep them so busy that the pedophilia crimes will go away. Maybe they think people will be so s…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…and a sweeping financial regulatory bill.” So who do you suppose is buying high-priced tickets to these events? Well, you could get an idea about that from a profile in today’s Times on the rise and rise of corporate fixer Tony Podesta (“The Proud Lobbyist” reads the Times headline). Tony boasts that he lobbied on 25 different issues related to Wall Street regulation for major players like Bank of America. And yes, this proud lobbyist is indeed th…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…astor and blogger, lambasted T4G and TGC for effectively giving Mahaney a “free-pass [for] his alleged role in the largest sex scandal-cover-up in recorded evangelical history.” In response to the May 14 amended suit, Lumpkins has proposed a “Resolution on Sexual Abuse of Children,” urging Southern Baptist churches to strengthen their policies on sexual abuse and cut ties with any leader or organization who is or has been involved in criminal or c…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…x,” which includes a meetinghouse (used for weekly worship), a residential high-rise building, and commercial spaces. In short, it’s carving out a distinctly Mormon enclave. The temple has received largely positive media coverage and one architecture critic celebrated it as “the most radical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century.” Constructed in an area populated by some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions, in…

‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy

By Sara Williams

…epentance to many of his critics, as Slate’s Ruth Graham and many others attest. These feelings point to a recognition that “apology” doesn’t amount to “repentance:” the active and constant turning from sin, which in this case amounts to the patriarchal logics that caused the harm. Though Harris may have shed his evangelical institutional affiliation, he is still an active member of the Church of Patriarchy. I do not write such words lightly, so l…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…oung people meeting in casual settings for prayer groups, and mosque doors opening to non-Muslims. Meanwhile, in an attempt to curb religious extremism, the Islamic Preaching Bill in Nigeria would criminalize “insulting or inciting contempt of any religious belief which causes a breach of the peace.” Saudi cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi challenged the notion that men and women should not mix in public places, sparking a controversy that led another…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…was presidential candidate Alejandro Guillier, who will face anti-marriage-equality candidate Sebastián Piñera in the December 17 runoff election. Activists announced that majorities in both chambers of the national legislature are committed to marriage equality. Democratic Republic of Congo: Pro-LGBT radio host profiled NPR’s Christopher Clark profiles Patou Izai, a self-employed IT technician in Kinshasa who produces “Jeuniafrica,” a weekly rad…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…ce at Pete’s Candy Store, a deceptively-named bar nestled between the brand*]}*-new high-rise condos over McCarren Park and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Joining me in the cramped back-room theater of Pete’s (about the dimensions of an old-world railway car with a vaudeville stage at the far end) there happened to be two reporters from National Public Radio and the Associated Press, respectively. I happen to go to a lot of philosophical lectures abo…