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Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…where my students are coming from makes me a more effective teacher. In a class of thirty, I was able to get about three-fourths to respond. With the exception of one, each expressed a negative view of “religion.” I don’t teach in some secular bastion of higher education, where such responses to “religion” might be par for the course. I teach at a small, church-affiliated school located deep in the eastern quadrant of the Bible Belt, in rural Nor…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…o protect these people, Middle Americans of all racial backgrounds—working class and middle class—to protect them against what I think is a hostile and nihilistic elite that is seeking to impose its values onto the working and middle classes to bolster their own power, prestige, status and achievement.” Yet, a closer look at the issues these two figures have championed reveals how Christian nationalism remains an animating force in the GOP’s cultu…

Former Opponent Invites Gays to the Wedding Party

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…is stable or strengthening among our college-educated elites, much larger numbers of Americans, particularly in middle and working-class America, are abandoning the institution entirely, with harmful social and personal consequences.” Blankenhorn sees this disparity leading to further inequality, a weakened middle class and children in danger. His proposal is to bring together everyone who is concerned with strengthening marriage, including gays…

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…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

…sexuals will become part of an elite class’ and ‘Christians will be second-class citizens at best.’” The most powerful person in Texas and a contender to be the most powerful person in the world is hosting a Christians-only prayer rally with an organization that believes Christians are at serious risk of becoming “second-class citizens.” What’s important to remember, though, is that while religious right elites are lining up to endorse Perry’s pra…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…it was about time that religious historians take seriously mobile, middle-class life in the suburbs, especially in the western United States. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? In spite of efforts to downplay the significance of the Second Vatican Council, for many American Catholics it provided the theological justifications to demand sophisticated religious education, to engage ritually in the sacraments, to be accepting o…

Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…ure. Another essay, entitled appropriately “Toxic Teachings,” interrogates class notes from a course on Christian Home, notes that repeat outdated psychological theories about distant fathers and cross-gender identifications and that offer tips on how to bring your kids up straight. (I recall my own Christian Home class. I still have the textbook with its litany of gender stereotypes. I remember the professor split up the boys and girls one week t…

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…

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…

Jesus Was Single

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…such as those proposed in California, laws that seek to create a separate class of citizens according to the discriminating categories of sexual identity, are actually instituting a discriminatory legal no-no, unless the state can show a far more compelling state interest in categorizing and sorting its citizens of a marriageable age according to the categories of sexual identity. As I have listened to this debate unfold, I have been puzzling ove…