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Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017

By Peter Montgomery

…rvative Black preachers. “I decided early on I wasn’t giving up none of my cards. I’m not giving up my Black card. I’m not giving up my church card. I’m not giving up my fundamentalist Holy Ghost card. I’m not giving up a doggone thing…Your authentic self is the gift.” “What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb?” asked Valarie Kaur, “What if our America is not dead, but a country that is waiting to be born…

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

By Sunnivie Brydum

…f of people detained while trying to re-enter the country with valid green cards and visas. Five federal judges issued nationwide injunctions to secure the release of detained migrants, refugees, and permanent residents already en route to the U.S., but the bulk of the order remains intact and continues to be enforced. Amid the chaos, a crucial detail of Trump’s unconstitutional order has been sorely underreported. Despite assurances from administ…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…le Harry with his resonant voice, or the professional handing out business cards at the bridal show—is a large part of the reason why. As the ranks of the spiritual-but-not-religious have grown, celebrants have emerged to fill a practical need: a made-to-order ceremony that includes as much or as little God-talk as their clients desire. (Many of them do funerals, too.) While I’d like to think most couples are comfortable enough with Christian fait…

Should Satanic Temple Have Threatened Netflix Over Baphomet Statue in ‘Sabrina’ Series?

By Joseph Laycock

…idence”: “If you look at Goya paintings, if you look at a lot of the tarot cards, or the Alistair Crawley [sic] iterations of him—because there’s hundreds and hundreds of iterations of him, he’s always seen with his people around him and it’s more of like a father figure kind of thing. So depicting his children with him, that kind of stuff, and those kinds of elements are all kind of the same.” But looking at the two images side by side, this defe…

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism

By Mary E. Hunt

…uence on private matters? That swishing sound is a Roman Catholic house of cards falling in on itself. Left standing are all queer Catholics and allies who will struggle as hard for trans and intersex rights as we have for LGB ones. The three suggestions the Education folks use in the document to frame their repetition of the long-touted message—Listen, Reason, Propose—are the very dynamics they violate. There is no evidence of listening to the vo…

What’s In A Bible Version? Trump’s Choice of Photo-Op Bible Tells its Own Story

By Daniel Schultz

…onal Version for scholarly translation, the New King James Version, or any number of paraphrase Bibles. Likewise, Catholics—one of the other religious demographics Trump has recently been sliding with—seemed to have used the RSV for a while in the 1960s, until the New American Bible came out in 1970. Of course, the largest single hit Trump has taken recently among white Christians has been with his own mainline Protestants, a whopping 18 point dec…

The Latest on Zubik v. Burwell: Religious Orgs Propose a Compromise That They Themselves Would Oppose

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…raceptive coverage policy)” with “separate enrollment processes, insurance cards, payment sources, and communication streams.” Unlike the current accommodation that provides for “seamless” birth control coverage, the brief states “if the contraceptive coverage is to be truly separate, not just an automatic and unavoidable component of the petitioner’s plan, then it must have an enrollment process that is distinct from (and not an automatic consequ…

The End of My Line: It’s Okay to Embrace The ‘Covid Baby Bust’

By Monica Byrne

…Color,” “Hair Type,” and “Eye Color.” I even drew their pictures on index cards (though curiously, I only made portraits of the girls). Etheria Latifah had straight black hair and violet eyes, and worked as a cosmologist. Ilúvatar Mia was a professional swimmer with a blonde bob. Elbereth Ajenta was a dancer with green eyes. They were all spaced one year apart. My older sister looked over it with amused appreciation, and asked, “How will you cont…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…lidays, just a day off from work, complete with Juneteenth sales, Hallmark cards, and frenetic commercials? Unlike other civic holidays that obscure a more complicated truth behind a symbolic celebration of a lofty ideal, such as faith and freedom on Thanksgiving or the 4th of July, Juneteenth is a much-needed reminder for the chronic case of historical amnesia that plagues large swathes of the American public. While Texas is not the first state t…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…freedom-loving urban constituency. Throughout Afghanistan people have cell phones and access to the internet. It’ll be difficult to have the same kind of social control two decades later. Another factor is the way the Taliban came to power in recent months. In February 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo represented President Donald Trump in meetings with Taliban representatives in Qatar. Trump essentially surrendered to the Taliban in excha…