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Why Roy Moore’s Evangelical Supporters Won’t Abandon Him

By Julie Ingersoll

…eschool world in recent years in which older men admitted to inappropriate contact in pursuing young (sometimes very young) girls. See the story of Doug Phillips and Vision Forum here and the stories of Bill Gothard and his Institute in Biblical Life Principles/Advanced Training Institute and Josh Duggar, here. Josh Duggar was accused of molesting young girls (including his sisters) when he himself was rather young but his targets were even younge…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…49956?s=20 https://twitter.com/jillianonthehud/status/1258119974264147968?s=2 https://twitter.com/jamiblakeley108/status/1258173442899099648?s=20 While some respondents insisted that being nonreligious is a choice in a way that one’s experience of one’s gender and sexuality is not—and even some self-identified atheists replied to the effect that they don’t consider their atheism an identity—the fact remains that in many parts of the United States,…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…ut anything from gender to science—climate change, Russia, China, and a thousand other things beside, just because of some admittedly very dangerous but equally not very sophisticated terrorists. Or, like someone said to me after one of my book readings, “I thought you were going to be Hamas.” Seriously? Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? My life kind of crashed and burned when I hit 32. Outwardly, everything was going great. I…

A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…e Dalai Lama at hand, as some neuroscientists now do, he did have extended contact with a similarly well-traveled Sinhalese Buddhist monk, Anagarika Dharmapala, with whom he compared notes and devotional habits as he was putting together his own system of meditation for Americans, a practical antidote to American nervousness and the then newly identified disease of neurasthenia. The real payoff for Trine, it should also be said, was not establishe…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…is name is “Balack”—such are clear enough examples. A third is McCain’s refusal to address or make eye contact with or otherwise acknowledge the presence of a black rival in a televised debate, or to be courteous to him when approached on the Senate floor. There are others. The majority of racists who deny or keep silent about their racism adopt subterfuges of religious or ethnic prejudice against Muslims or Arabs. Obviously, his very name Barack…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…ase of Ghaffar Khan’s movement there was the participation of a surprising number of women, given how conservative—and you can even argue misogynist—Pashtun society had been traditionally. They allowed women to participate because he said so and his honor and stature was such that they couldn’t resist. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, women used to lead their marches! This is just incredible. What power and influence he must have had to convince them…

Theologians Claim Death Row Inmate as One of Their Own

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e personally,” in this case, means “knowing someone who has regular social contact with people possessing masters and doctoral degrees and/or large Twitter followings and/or several published books to their credit”? Too, it’s not as though everyone involved knew Gissendaner and counted her as a friend: some, like me, were friends with people who knew her, and their pain—maybe unavoidably?—lent urgency to Gissendaner’s case. At the same time, I don…

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

By Adam Willems

…are if it’s true, they care if it works and it’s working for them. Carole Cusack has a very compelling way to think about religion. The question that folks want to ask from the outside is like, Does anybody really believe that stuff? The emphasis on belief is a really Protestant impulse. And Carol Cusack says Who cares if they believe it? What does it do for them? What does it do out in the world? What do we know about a society because something…

Hajj Journal: Visiting the Kingdom is Not the Same as Visiting the King

By Amina Wadud

…oad of people, so these are the steps: Once I was in touch with our Jeddah contact person, I was taken to the cafeteria area to join our “group”. Then I was given a meal with half a pound of rice and half a chicken. (try to keep count how many times food offerings will be made this evening, okay?). From that point forward, my brain or my wits were no longer on demand. So I let somebody else took care of everything, in their own way, but hey, it’s…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…for these students, just a culture of being quiet and toughing it out.” Azusa Pacific University: Is a Faculty Purge Imminent? A few days after I published “The Struggle for LGBTQ Inclusion,” an Azusa Pacific faculty member reached out to me with some disturbing information, encouraging me to publicize it, though requesting anonymity out of fear of retaliation from the university administration. Azusa Pacific does not offer its faculty tenure, bu…