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Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…ious liberty thing. Liberty is fabulous, the best. All Americans should be free to take religious liberties. Oh, and that Turnbull guy, is he serious? I’m supposed to care about what Australia thinks? Gimme a break. Gonna talk about that tomorrow. Gonna say that I know how to play rough, gonna tell them all that fighting the bad guys won’t be pretty for a while. Let’s see if the Sunday School types at the Hilton tomorrow are ready to face reality….

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

…shops and the Latino Evangelicals, by way of their panicked response to a relatively minor and clearly benign provision, will have sabotaged reform if it ends up going down that way? I mean, really: how much real passion do these hierarchs and their spokespeople actually have for the estimated 13 million undocumented persons now cowering each day in fear of deportation—and cruelly exploited each day in fields and factories and restaurants and hote…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…matter, the world of prosperity gospel preachers, whose claims about the relationship between faith, donations to the church, and personal well-being strike many outsiders as a straightforward, money-motivated swindle. In the business of hope, there’s already very little overlap between the legal and the ethical—and, it seems, little clarity on where the legal marketing ends and the illegal stuff begins. What’s clear is that dreams are good busin…

Mormon Bloggernacle is No Choir

By Krista Kapralos

…athan Oman said he’s comfortable with the Bloggernacle being made up of a self-selecting group, but the principle bloggers in the ’nacle are “largely a bunch of people who have just got a bunch of stuff they want to talk about,” he said. “Then some journalist calls, and suddenly it’s, ‘Oh my gosh, people are watching.’” The Bloggernacle is a tight-knit club, said Courtney Kendrick, whose C Jane Enjoy It blog is ranked among the top 800 blogs on Te…

Christocrat Competition

By Sarah Posner

…adopter of the term “Christocrat” to lead your effort? Newt Gingrich has selected former Senator Zell Miller to be the co-chair of his presidential campaign. Miller, a Democrat, infamously spoke to the 2004 Republican National Convention and charged that John Kerry would arm the military with spitballs. But that’s not Miller’s only claim to fame. Earlier in 2004, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, asserting that America was on the road…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…racial equality. It’s a decent hypothesis and response, but simply knowing better rarely solves issues as complex as white supremacy. Social problems are, well, social, and require us to take into account broader patterns and movements. In this instance, it’s worth looking at another trend Robert Jones has chronicled: the decline of American Christianity. Religious adherence and worship attendance in postwar America peaked in the mid-1960s, just a…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ality in Trump’s America: Get to Your Statehouses Even before Trump’s unlikely electoral victory, each new legislative session brought a cornucopia of anti-LGBT bills introduced in state legislatures around the country. Oklahoma introduced a whopping 27 anti-LGBT bills at the beginning of the 2015-2016 session. By March, activists on the ground had defeated all of those bills, as had organizers in several other states where bills attempted to codi…

Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…Points.” But there’s no one better prepared to interpret the work of the celibate, plain-living religious group than this wildly experimental group of artists. Both are pioneers in their fields—avant-garde theater and millenarian religious movements. Both have outlasted nearly all the competition, even if their form has changed. Both have a protected home, which admirers visit in hushed tones. The Wooster Group has The Performing Garage, enshrine…

Anti-Vaxxers Illustrate Danger of Overly Broad Religious Freedom Laws

By Kara Loewentheil

…in a vaccine law, it is unlikely that a plaintiff would be able to win a Religious Freedom Restoration Act claim (under a state RFRA or similar statute). A plaintiff with a “personal belief” claim would certainly not be able to obtain a judicial exemption, since RFRAs protect only religious belief. But even a plaintiff with a religious belief against vaccination would have an uphill battle. The government’s compelling interest in public health an…

Dads Against Daughters Dating

By Julie Ingersoll

…ission to their fathers until they have been given over to submit to their husbands. These organizations all promote literature, lectures, conferences, and other materials intended to promote this perspective, as well as the starkly delineated gender norms and expectations upon which this view is based. I’d be willing to bet the t-shirt will be showing up at homeschool conventions across the country this spring….