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Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches

By Yazmine Nichols

…always be re-negotiated. What recourse do our society’s pariahs have? When will their acts be declared righteous, and when will their accusers and attackers be called to account? When will the church become a place of protection rather than a place of rejection? A third potential point of reformation is in the area of color-blindness. This area is perhaps the most important to me personally: I am black, and God made me that way. As a result of sla…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…igious inspiration—a Wahhabi version of Islam fomented in the country’s growing number of fundamentalist religious schools—the victims are not necessarily homogenous in their religious beliefs. Attacks in Bangladesh have targeted atheists and apostates, yes, but what victims have generally shared is something more fundamental: a willingness to live according to the dictates of their own consciences, and to pursue an open, pluralistic, and democrat…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…to note this against the notion that somehow having enough people speak up with moral clarity on an issue will make a difference, a line you often hear from what I’ve in the past called the “religion-industrial complex.” Those stacks of high-minded email petitions you see delivered to lawmakers’ offices pretty much go directly in the trash. They pay more attention to phone calls and letters, but street protests don’t bother them at all, unless the…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…lest building plummet, cracking and crumbling The ground is shaking, swallowing young woman With a baby, daisies, and other flowers burning in destruction Now compare Kendrick’s salvo to Jeremiah’s lament for Jerusalem: My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; … because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city. They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the…

“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…r religious freedom in India will require consistent, intentional work. It will require a certain humble willingness to acknowledge and address our own problems with anti-minority harassment and violence. It will require more frequent expressions of concern not only for Muslims, but also for Hindus, Buddhists, and other non-Christians suffering persecution around the world. And it will require symbolically potent action, like President Obama’s rec…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…w territory. For years now we have been able to escape our physical spaces with our phones. But Pokémon Go doesn’t just allow us to avoid a “real” place in favor of a “virtual” one. It has instead transformed our real spaces into virtual ones. It may have been bad manners to play video games at a cemetery, or to take a selfie at a funeral, but with Pokémon, the funeral, the cemetery, and now even the Holocaust memorial and 9/11 memorial, have beco…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…n?” In launching these critiques, some have contrasted the coverage of the flood with wall-to-wall coverage of the Olympics, the ongoing presidential sideshow, and the riots in Milwaukee. Having your suffering ignored or cast aside only intensifies the pain you feel. And, yet, comparing one’s suffering with the suffering of others, calculating them according to hierarchies of pain, reinforces the logic of oppression. In other words, the standards…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…son we know what happened to Walter Scott is because a bystander filmed it with his phone. In making his plea, Pinckney invoked the biblical story of Doubting Thomas, the one of Jesus’s disciples who would not believe Jesus had risen from the dead until he saw him with his own eyes and touched his wounds with his own hands. “It was only when he was able to do that, he said, ‘I believe,’” Pinckney said of Thomas. Some people, said Pinckney, are lik…

Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ientific basis. Could you walk me through your methodology? We started off with every goal I could think of [with help from my students]. And then we asked other people to add to the list and think of additional ones. We went through books and the index of psychology to come up with more. The first list had 550+ goals. Then we looked at it, and we thought how many of these are really the same? We wanted to eliminate duplicates. That cut it down to…

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…for shying away from hot-button religious culture war battles, “visited by phone” with Rowan County, Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis yesterday, according to a statement issued by his campaign. “I let her know how proud I am of her for not abandoning her religious convictions and standing strong for religious liberty,” the former pastor, Arkansas governor, and now two-time presidential candidate said in a statement. Arguing that “the Supreme Court c…