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Seen Andrew Sullivan’s Expose-Style Footage of the LDS Temple? Now Read This.

By Joanna Brooks

…d several other dozen Mormons were inducted into Freemasonry. Joseph’s ritual mirrored Masonry partly in form… and in its construction of an initiation rite through elaboration of Biblical story and drama. Most of all the endowment used ritual to bind people together through oath and covenant. Freemasonry offered the same sense of an ordered world that Joseph was seeking to find in his faith; it is little surprise that he would find in the Masonic…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…probably construct a different Jesus. His Jesus would be colorless—maybe a flash of light—because of his belief in colorblindness and his useful colorblindness rhetoric. I want to close out with some final thoughts about Harvey and Blum’s engaging book. It seems to me that Paul’s comment about social class is crucial for understanding how Jesus— to turn a phrase—has been “deployed” in American culture. On the one hand, he is the faithful friend…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…n I was 23. I’m not trying to preach; I’m trying to encourage. Some people always walk out, I know that. I think you just have to try it and see what happens. In the end, I’m trying to make myself laugh. I’m trying to inform myself and see things. Like I pointed out in the show Circle, this thing from the Catholic Church was to eat the body of Christ and then drink the blood of Christ. Now I know Christian religions were dropped on top of pagan re…

Veep Voter Guide: Comparing Apples to Ayn Rand

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…olic social teaching, according to the group of Catholic theologians, academics, and ministers behind “On All of Our Shoulders: A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good.” I am fortunate enough to know a number of the signers (theology’s a pretty small world) and many of them are very much opposed to abortion. So this is a long way of suggesting that FRC’s Catholic VP voter guide is a bit incomplete. And anyway, a recent poll of Cathol…

Atheist Schism?

By Katie Toth

…e and male. The idea crystallized as most atheist organizing does—over the Internet. Feminist blogger Jen McCreight had already been brainstorming with other activists about a new secular social justice group. But it was McCreight’s personal frustration with online harassment that led her to write a blog post demanding a ‘third wave’ of atheism. We throw up billboards claiming we’re Good Without God, but how are we proving that as a movement? Litt…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…e Pussy Riot trial. As Masha Lipton of The New Yorker noted, during the trial all three Pussy Riot members were found to be suffering from so-called psychological disorders, marked by phrases like: “a proactive approach to life,” “a drive for self-fulfillment,” “stubbornly defending their opinion,” “inflated self-esteem,” “inclination to opposition behavior,” and “propensity for protest reactions.” A few months after the DC trip, both Hilarion and…

Chick-fil-A Has a Right to Open Crappy Sandwich Shop in Chicago

By Sarah Posner

…es” conversation—we know, we know! (I think Rahm is having a 2006 campaign flashback.) But since when do businesses get permits (or not) based on their religious or political views? Chick-fil-A should be permitted by city officials to open its restaurant. If Emanuel is right—that it will be empty of customers—the owners will find out the hard way. But not by giving conservatives ammunition to claim that progressives want to silence their religious…

The Gospel Church and the Ruining of Gay Lives: An Interview with Anthony Heilbut

By Douglas Harrison

…ords, is it the Jesus who appeals to the effeminate preachers and their female flock or the Billy Sunday-Billy Graham [version represented today by] Tony Evans? He is this black football-playing advisor to the Promise Keepers, and they stress that they’re excessively butch. In fact, one of my more playful lines is that muscular Christianity devolves into the image of Bishop Eddie L. Long posing on his smartphone. In recent gospel, [the trend has b…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…a revitalized political, cultural, and religious left in America. Individual ministers still possess the same freedom to speak their minds as Fosdick did—and should; though ecumenical organizations with member denominations split over controversial topics must develop common ground first. Beyond the Binary As a historian whose own research on the National Council of Churches affirms Hollinger’s arguments about the repercussions of past ecumenical…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…group, and under the country’s blasphemy provision, Article 156a, which criminalizes “hostility, hatred or contempt” and “disgracing” of a religion. Article 156a also prohibits attempts to persuade others to leave their religion and embrace atheism. Aan’s small, pro bono legal team is not optimistic. The Indonesian legal system is designed for unequal treatment of unbelievers. The constitution officially recognizes the religions of Islam, Protesta…