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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…x couples in at least some parts of Florida will be able to marry early in January. It also seems that 2015 could be the year in which the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of state marriage bans; on January 9, the Court will be considering whether to hear appeals in cases coming out of five states. Marriage equality came to Scotland at the end of 2014, joining England and Wales; marriage equality also spread in Mexico. In contrast…

How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months

By Hollis Phelps

…l trajectory than a strained gimmick. In an interview he did with NPR last January Bell indicated that, as far as he can remember, he has always wrestled with his faith. Indeed, for Bell that’s just what faith is: it’s “one of those things that people wrestle with.” Some in his former congregation didn’t seem to think so, however. It was his expression of some of those doubts that had led to his forced resignation the year before. Bell said in the…

Yeshiva is Likely to Win Its Battle Against LGBTQ Group — But Do Jewish Orgs Really Want to Empower a Militant Christian Movement?

By Orit Avishai

…rt, this agenda’s political arm is associated with political violence: the January 6 insurrection was rife with Christian symbolism, including the cross, Christian flag, Jesus flag modeled on the Trump campaign flag, and prayers; activists said that (a Christian) God empowered them. Religious freedom and political violence are intimately intertwined. YU’s choice of legal counsel makes clear the stakes. The Becket Fund is a legal advocacy outfit wi…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…aschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him. • January 10, 1912, Warrenville, Illinois. Sylvester E. Adams shot and killed teacher Edith Smith after she rejected his advances. Adams then shot and killed himself. The incident took place in a schoolhouse about a mile outside of Warrenville after the students had been dismissed for the day. • March 27, 1919, Lodi Township, Michigan. 19-year-old teacher Irma Casler was shot…

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

…d Jordan manage to make me the whipping boy, from beginning to end, of his January 8 catalogue of grievances? He begins with one sentence in my final Beliefs column on January 2. In that column, he writes, I “reflected on the polarization of American religious rhetoric.” Wrong. Even a cursory reading of that column would see that the sentence he quotes was not part of a general reflection on American religious rhetoric. It was part of a valedictor…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…o hell, psychological instability of returning veterans with unprecedented numbers committing suicide, veteran services stretched thin—these are only a few items that come to mind though they only scratch the surface of the psychic, social, and cultural scars inflicted by this war. Historically and across cultures, warfare is often the most religious event in the life of any society. Is it any different here, in America, with this war? The patriot…

Egypt Protests Upset Assumptions About the
Arab World

By Sarah Eltantawi

…t. One thing is clear, however: for the protests to topple the regime, the numbers on the streets must reach into the millions—not an especially far-fetched goal for a nation of 80 million. But whether or not Mubarak goes the way of Ben Ali, something has changed in Egypt and in the region. A young, Harvard educated Egyptian lawyer put it best, writing the following on Facebook the morning after: “As I walked back from work, everything looked the…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…est and best organized opposition force in the country, abstained from the January 25 demonstrations, but belatedly endorsed the January 28 demonstrations. Perhaps as a result of this waffling there has been almost no Islamic content to the demonstrations. The tone has mostly been nationalist and secular. But that reality gets in the way of some good propaganda for the American right, namely that the Muslim Brotherhood is the architect of the righ…

Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…er NAR leaders have played in the Trump campaigns, Stop the Steal, and the January 6th insurrection. This is important because the authority that derives from the only biblically identified offices of the Church is essential for setting the direction of the Christian community and getting others to follow. Will the people who set the direction of the church be patient revolutionaries or egotistical demagogues hell bent on biblical revolution in ou…

Beck Loses the Fox Portal into America’s Living Rooms

By Joanna Brooks

…of doomsaying. More than a million of Beck’s viewers abandoned him between January 2010 and January 2011. Major advertiser followed. Now, it has been announced that Beck will lose his Fox television show by the end of 2011. It would be foolish to think that a media figure as ambitious as Beck will go quietly. But the end of his regular gig on the Fox network means that Beck’s trademark brand of conspiracy-mongering will lose a portal into millions…