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Former Opponent Invites Gays to the Wedding Party

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ites, much larger numbers of Americans, particularly in middle and working-class America, are abandoning the institution entirely, with harmful social and personal consequences.” Blankenhorn sees this disparity leading to further inequality, a weakened middle class and children in danger. His proposal is to bring together everyone who is concerned with strengthening marriage, including gays and lesbians. The new conversation does not presuppose or…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…where my students are coming from makes me a more effective teacher. In a class of thirty, I was able to get about three-fourths to respond. With the exception of one, each expressed a negative view of “religion.” I don’t teach in some secular bastion of higher education, where such responses to “religion” might be par for the course. I teach at a small, church-affiliated school located deep in the eastern quadrant of the Bible Belt, in rural Nor…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…I facilitated a heated debate about Pussy Riot in my Religion and Society class after a Russian student gave a presentation on the trial that involved her distributing copies of the lyrics of the “Punk Prayer.” That resulted, some weeks later, in a panicked phone call from an administrator asking if I had taught Pussy Riot lyrics. The incident blew over, but the ban on LGBT “propaganda” was passed at around the same time. And I would be lying if…

In Oklahoma, Another Court Against Using Religion as Justification for Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ument as “impermissibly tied to moral disapproval of same-sex couples as a class of Oklahoma citizens. All of these perceived ‘threats’ are to one view of the marriage institution—a view that is bound up in procreation, one morally ‘ideal’ parenting model, and sexual fidelity.” The claim to be “preserving” the “traditional institution of marriage,” wrote Kern, is just a “kinder way” of expressing the state’s “moral disapproval” of same-sex couple…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ckraking journalist Ray Stannard Baker lamented: Not only have the working classes become alienated from the churches, especially from the Protestant churches, but a very large proportion of well-to-do men and women who belong to the so-called cultured class have lost touch with church work. Some retain a membership, but the church plays no vital or important part in their lives. Thousands of men and women who contribute to the support of the chur…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…courses had long been on the books at a number of institutions across the United States, in literature courses and sociology classes and beyond. Scholars like Kim Paffenroth and Kelly Baker, among others, had already firmly established the relevance and importance of studying zombies and other monsters within the field of religious studies more broadly. Yet between the excellent work of CMU’s media team and the strange world of the internet where…

If Modesto’s Public Schools Can Teach World Religions, It Can Happen Anywhere

By Jonathan Homrighausen

…ing interreligious dialogue and biblical studies. I don’t think McIntyre’s class is responsible for all of that. But looking back, I can’t help but wonder if this class ignited a spark that would eventually become a flame. So Modesto is also the city that implemented a mandatory course in world religions in public high schools. The city designed that course in consultation with local religious leaders to ensure that every group is represented fair…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ize coverage. “…at the very moment when digital capitalism is exacerbating class inequality, social media is catalyzing attitudes of racism, sexism, and nativism among those who fear losing the socio-economic privilege they once enjoyed.” That discrepancy is perhaps unsurprising, given Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous off-hand quip that “a squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa….

The Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response

By Martin Kavka

…to hold any meaningful power at all. It is a technique by which that same class of people can point out argumentative faults and begin to hold more power. In other words, theology is not only an activity that brings norms into being; it is an activity that can and does change those norms. To teach about this activity, or to give it a home on the campus of the public university, is to introduce a university community to a kind of social performanc…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

…sexuals will become part of an elite class’ and ‘Christians will be second-class citizens at best.’” The most powerful person in Texas and a contender to be the most powerful person in the world is hosting a Christians-only prayer rally with an organization that believes Christians are at serious risk of becoming “second-class citizens.” What’s important to remember, though, is that while religious right elites are lining up to endorse Perry’s pra…