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The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…not religious, and the art world is not religious. The people I came into contact with while shooting the images were all super friendly and excited about the project when I explained what I was doing. People I know who were raised in the church, but have since turned against it, were totally freaked out by it. They found it creepy. But in terms of actual religious people, I haven’t seen that much reaction yet or had those conversations. Are you…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…oy to learn which plans aren’t offering contraceptive coverage and whom to contact to let them know their insurer will cover contraception anyway. It seems to envision some form of the “compromise” it suggested in its equally bizarre request for additional briefs after the initial hearing. Under this compromise, the plaintiffs would contract for a plan that didn’t provide contraceptive coverage in the first place, which suggests that the Little Si…

Unmasking the “Veiled Prophet” Behind a 135-Year-Old St. Louis Tradition

By Spencer Dew

…n anthropology textbook. Program title page, Sixth Veiled Prophet Festival, 1883, produced by the Compton Litho Company The year 2017 marks the 135th instantiation of what has long been known in St. Louis as the Veiled Prophet Parade, a public event hosted by a secret society founded in 1878. Organized around a gun-toting, masked mystic (the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan), the VP Organization, as it is commonly known today, functioned simultaneously…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…severe flooding” and gave a list of shelters that would be open along with contact and location information. By Sunday evening the first round of tweets were swirling, asking why Lakewood wasn’t open as a shelter. And a subsequent video showing flowing and standing water in an underground garage of what was presumed to be Lakewood began circulating—as if to suggest that Lakewood was flooded and therefore not a place for shelter. It seemed as thoug…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…upport for LGBT Rights Among British Muslims Pink News reports on a poll of 1000 Muslims commissioned by Channel 4: Just 18% of Muslims surveyed agreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, while 52% said it should be banned. Nearly half (47%) said they would not be happy with a gay person being a teacher, while they were also overwhelmingly opposed to equal marriage. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party a…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…ployed by Moscow to influence U.S. policy. A sentencing memo filed on April 19, 2019 in this case describes a technique known as “spot and assess,” in which Russians who may be only loosely affiliated with the Kremlin set up private meetings to gauge who might have influence in the U.S. government and how to approach them. While the focus of the memo is on Butina’s connections to pro-gun organizations (most notably the NRA), the memo also cites he…

I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me

By Deirdre Sugiuchi

…tead, Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo hosted a fundraiser to support 17-year-old domestic terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed two Black Lives Matter protesters and wounded a third. Again, having grown up in the Christian nationalist tradition, none of this is surprising. As Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, explained to me recently: “Some of the extremists involved…

QAnon Didn’t Just Spring Forth From the Void — It’s the Latest From a Familiar Movement

By Adam Willems

…holics. Even 20 years prior that would have been completely unthinkable. So 1973-74 is when we start seeing the Moral Majority take off. In 1960, Kennedy’s having to get in front of the Southern Baptist convention and assure them that he’s not going to let the Pope run the country. By the time George W. Bush is in office, he’s showing up in front of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, assuring them that their concerns and their agenda around co…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ssor Paul Butler states, “the flames that engulfed Watts in 1965, Newark in 1967, Miami in 1980, Los Angeles in 1992, Ferguson in 2015 and Minneapolis in 2020 were in response to police violence against Blacks.” These forms of unrest reveal the persistence of the racial contract as well as challenges to its legitimacy—even in the midst of a pandemic. Black feminist and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s definition of racism as the “state-sanctione…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…church and state. As Vermont’sWindham Ministerial Association proclaimed in 1803, “family government is the basis of all government, and family religion of all religion.” Household prayer—part obligation, part spiritual impulse—undergirded the social and political order. Clergy guided families’ efforts with guidebooks for worship: prayers, hymns, and devotions; directions for leading Sabbath; and instructions for conducting funerals at home. Famil…