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Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…ng Prostitution, Sex-Trafficking, Slavery Annie Lobért grew up in a middle class family on a tree-lined street in Minnesota. Her upbringing was strict, and she hated the rules that her mother and her father and the church imposed on her. “So naturally when I hit the age of a teenager,” she told Joy Behar in a television interview, “I just went wild.” Lobért did drugs and she slept around. She was insecure and felt unloved, so she started stripping…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ts. Pro-death, anti-abortion public policy and protest are a form of race, class and gender warfare disguised as religious morality crusades to “protect” innocent “babies.” Challenging the abortion-as-“Black genocide” billboard campaign mounted by right wing foundations in 2011, founding reproductive justice activist Loretta Ross said: “We decided to have abortions. We invited Margaret Sanger to place clinics in Black neighborhoods. We are part of…

High Schooler says Barbara Ehrenreich’s Book Violates his Civil Rights

By Sarah Posner

…g whether the sections on Jesus’s teachings were specifically discussed in class. As a whole, though, the book isn’t about Christianity or Jesus’s political philosophy but about the economic inequities and daily struggles faced by working Americans. Could there be a more pointed aggregation of right-wing grievances about public education, religion, and the economy? I think not. For one thing, the claim that public school curricula “insult” conserv…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…it. And by chance in San Francisco someone who was part of that was in my class and at first I thought, No, I’ve already tried that and I’m not interested. But he urged me to read a book. I read it. I realized there is something here after all. So that was a parallel. My personal inner work was parallel with my academic work in a way. Although I never made the connection between God and what I had studied with the Gurdjieff teaching. It was not a…

“Taking a Stand for Jesus” in the Public Schools

By Lauri Lebo

…ard, which ruled that the teaching of creationism in public school science class violated the Establishment Clause, was a test case of Louisiana’s Balanced Treatment Act.) The article includes this stunningly familiar quote from a board member: David Tate, the School Board member who brought up the matter at the board’s last meeting, said he would rather not see litigation, but added that the board gets sued on other matters. “We don’t want litiga…

The Senate Deal: Still Stroking the Rich [UPDATED]

By Peter Laarman

…The already-very-comfortable people getting this big wet kiss from working-class hero Joe Biden are those whom Lewis Lapham taught me to refer to as achievatrons: many of them doing well in the so-called “knowledge” professions, which (let’s admit it) often amounts to knowing the right people and having the right connections. Here is the most pernicious feature of the deal on marginal rates, a feature that Sen. Tom Harkin, who voted “no,” rightly…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…many ways this book is both sequel and prequel to Anderson’s contemporary classic Beyond Ontological Blackness. It is a sequel in that Anderson constructs a principled path of moving beyond the flat interpretations of African American religious experience that have been regulated by antiquated notions of “the black church.” Rather, for Anderson, “creative exchange” can be realized in the ambiguous/grotesque moments where beloved community actuall…

By His Wounds We Have Already Been Entertained: Tiger Woods, The Masters, and the Ritual of Celebrity Disgrace

By Dan Mathewson and Trina Jones

…daries and exclusions had, at one time, been clearly delimited in terms of class, race, and sex. Tiger is male, so he posed no threat there. And he is clearly and indisputably good at golf, so has never been marginal in that sense. But Tiger is clearly not white. Before proceeding, let’s clarify precisely what and whom we’re talking about here. We understand that Tiger Woods is not the first non-white professional golfer in the history of the spor…

In Oklahoma, Another Court Against Using Religion as Justification for Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ument as “impermissibly tied to moral disapproval of same-sex couples as a class of Oklahoma citizens. All of these perceived ‘threats’ are to one view of the marriage institution—a view that is bound up in procreation, one morally ‘ideal’ parenting model, and sexual fidelity.” The claim to be “preserving” the “traditional institution of marriage,” wrote Kern, is just a “kinder way” of expressing the state’s “moral disapproval” of same-sex couple…

Was a Teacher Disciplined for Refusing to Apologize for Teaching Science?

By Lauri Lebo

…e on the story here. It’s difficult to tell exactly what took place in the classroom and whether Hensley overstepped her boundaries in a discussion of religion. Nonetheless, this all leads me to wonder, if a student argues in class that the bible is life’s literal blueprint, facts be damned, is it wrong for a teacher, in the course of teaching science, to correct the student’s misinformed worldview? Or, in the interest of not offending the child a…