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Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…and conservative enclaves limits reform. Advocates in urban areas are likely to be literally preaching to the converted; those in rural or many suburban pulpits might as well save their breath. Beyond structural limitations, I think we need to ask about the effectiveness of strategies and tactics. As Sarah points out, coalition-building among leaders hasn’t built much support for reform. The people in the pews will happily ignore what the leading…

Can You Become Un-Autistic?

By Michael Schulson

…“35 continue to have emotional, behavioral or learning difficulties, and only 10 are in a mainstream classroom with no additional support.” Finally, it’s important to remember that a diagnosis isn’t a natural absolute that scientists set out to discover. It’s a human-made category, which doctors then apply to patients’ symptoms. When a child loses an autism diagnosis, what has changed? The underlying cause? The symptoms? The child’s strategies of…

Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette

By Michael Schulson

…church or [a] worship service.” A full 96% of those surveyed chose “generally not okay,” which was slightly higher than those who condemn mobile use in movie theaters. This finding indicates not only that the secular chambers of the cinema still don’t command quite the respect of Good Old Fashioned Faith—but also that the Pew methodology may be a bit out of whack. I make that latter point based on my recent experiences in church—which are myriad,…

Wanted: Your Vote

By The Editors

…before and it never gets old. But… we confess we’re starting to nurture a bit of a Susan Lucci complex — always a nominee, never (yet) a winner. In the past we’ve lost to much larger media outlets (such as the public network that rhymes with “Zee Bee Ess”) and this year are up against the likes of Krista Tippett’s “On Being” and others. So, here’s where you come in: We want (and need) your vote in the Webby’s People’s Voice contest. It only takes…

Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Still a Big Deal in U.S. Politics, And How It Got That Way

By Eric C. Miller

…r conservative on the other. Some seem to square this circle more effectively than others—usually by incorporating lots of programmatic variety and appealing to individual judgment—but it’s a continual process of negotiation. So, back to some of the polls you mentioned. There seems to be pretty good evidence that a lot of younger people are losing interest in packaged and branded institutions. If I had to frame it in terms of the language I use in…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…y not going to work.” But with churches, they’re already set up and hopefully mostly paid off and don’t have too many costs. So we create sustainable models for the income to balance out. If the costs going into it are really high, it’s pretty hard to achieve that with arts organizations and events when you’re charging ten bucks to get in. It’s really important that it be accessible. We’re not the model of a theater where we’re charging 50 bucks a…

“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…God Seminar hopes to involve the public. But there, the situation is arguably a bit different than it was in the 1990s. The fulminations of the New Atheists notwithstanding, some trade books are blurring the line between religion and atheism in ways different from—but not altogether hostile to—that done by radical theology. Chris Stedman’s Faitheist and Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists are two such titles. The SundayAssembly, a churchlike g…

Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…te Caitlyn Jenner for who she is? My sense is that Rogers had a comparatively fluid notion of gender roles. He was constantly bending gender on his program in the sense that he showed males and females undertaking activities not normally associated with their gender. We can see this especially in his use of the puppet Lady Elaine Fairchilde. “I’m tired of being a lady!” she says at one point, indicating she wants to do work not typically identifie…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…e sheet where pain can never outweigh, let alone produce pleasure. Ironically, only the born are arguing about the merits of being unborn, so Antinatalism itself, if it is a good, rests on the fruits of natalism. Be fruitful and (it’s cool if you don’t) multiply, The Dust • • • • • • dust@religiondispatches.org • • • • • • _______ John Fante was a writer whose explorations of “God, booze, women, and the cruel majesty that is L.A.” made him a noir…

Chocolate Will Make You Thin! Or: How Should We Trust Science?

By Michael Schulson

…findings tends to be high, while the incentive to challenge them is generally low. This is especially true for journalists, for whom a dramatic, surprising result—chocolate aids weight loss!—is excellent copy. The relationship can also be mutually beneficial for researchers and journalists, who get good press and good stories, respectively (Bohannon speaks, accurately, of “the diet research-media complex”). Challenging a scientific finding, on the…