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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…both the Obama and Trump administrations (the litigation spanned the presidential transition, and the incoming administration maintained the position of its predecessor), Crabb concluded that the housing allowance exemption fails the Lemon test. The exemption for church-provided housing, which excludes from taxation the cost of housing provided directly by a religious employer, has secular analogues and can be construed as falling within the long…

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…e there, they pursue independent research projects and hold discussions around a common theme. For the astrobiology inquiry, scholars were invited to apply if they were “open to new ways of thinking” on questions like “If there are many different forms of life…how would philosophy relate these diverse forms life to one another and establish the limits of what it means to be ‘alive’?” or “How might the world’s religions respond to the discovery of…

The Deafening Silence of “Religious Freedom” Defenders on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…“for your right to freely live out your faith” has apparently not yet felt compelled to comment on the most direct attack on that right in our lifetimes. While ADF’s history makes clear its Christian orientation, the group’s newly installed leader, Michael P. Farris, spoke this weekend about what he sees as the true test of religious freedom advocates—but it’s one that, by his own definition, ADF has just failed. “I think the test of religious fre…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t stake, adding emotional and legal weight to the specific impediments faced by the organizations who are party to the suit. Administration officials have not yet commented publicly on the latest lawsuit, or the religious discrimination complaints it advances. …

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…it, at the Festival of Colors, “everyone is just the same,”except, when it comes to understanding of what the Festival is, what it does, and what it means, this might not be precisely true. ______ The author was part of a group of scholars researching and conducting interviews at the Festival of Colors in 2015 through the University of California’s “Religions in Diaspora and Global Affairs” initiative, sponsored in part by the Henry R. Luce Founda…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…estle with is how the movement will carry on after the election. With President Trump being seen as the savior of the republic in the White House, one who’s poised to usher in the collapse of the deep state, his defeat in the election could very well be seen as the ultimate failure of prophecy. As such, the theoretical framework presented above is important to keep in mind once the election is decided. If Trump loses the election, we foresee poten…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…itics, worldviews, religion, education—the whole way a society approaches being community, and connecting with one another, and understanding their God or their gods—it all changes. My book examines that change and tries to make it very clear about where we might be going in the future. You also write about the rising number of “nones”—those who claim no religion—and how church attendance across the board, even in more evangelical churches, is in…

‘Murder Among the Mormons’ Ep 2 Recap: A Family Man With a Wild Side

By Benjamin E. Park

…ierarchical censorship, even murder—unveiled the faith’s true aura, the hidden underbelly that they’d carefully hidden. Such was the tenor of the bestselling book on the case, anyway. Attacking this larger legacy was too large a step for Murder Among the Mormons—though the directors do address some broader questions in the third and final episode—as they instead focus on the enigma of Hofmann himself. That they chose not to dig into his personal p…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…ink sin is doing something that harms others and the earth—eventually this comes around to harm our own selves. I think the metaphors of heaven and hell work for a more immature state of human reasoning, when some people need a boost. But I am clear of this because of the Qur’an itself. I also believe it when it says: “Everything will disappear, illa wajh-Allah except the countenance God. To this, I add, what every Muslim says when some one dies,…

Perry Endorser: Mormonism is a “Cult” (Updated)

By Sarah Posner

…tist Convention’s position as proof.) There is no constitutional religious test for president, Jeffress admitted, but voters can impose such a test themselves. He described Romney as a “fine family person” but that “a lot of good people can be misled.” Jeffress insisted that “only belief in Jesus Christ will get you to heaven,” and dismissed my question about whether he understood that Mormons did believe in Jesus Christ as their savior. “Mormons…