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Five Must-Reads on the “Nones”: A Tipping Point in American Religion and Spirituality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…hes and more keen to explore what Nones are up to on their own terms, the books below are a helpful start: Catherine Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). Albanese reminds readers that contemporary spirituality isn’t always, or even often, comprised of newly-minted, idiosyncratic practices. Her historical look at the metaphysical tradition from fiftee…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…tive Christians who blame the Newtown tragedy on God’s absence from our schools. The problem with this approach, however, is that those who make such statements fully expect that they will be criticized and take smug pride in it. James Dobson, for instance, prefaced his take on this most recent school shooting with, “And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right no…

What This All-Star Christian Movie Gets Wrong About Christianity

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…You Believe?”—the new Christian film from PureFlix—you will get a pretty good idea of whether you’re the movie’s intended audience. (Most of the reviewers, I think it’s safe to say, are not. See Rotten Tomatoes for a sampling of the critical scorn.) The film, a star-studded feature from the creators of 2014’s surprisingly profitable “God’s Not Dead,” is meant for Christians who want to see depictions of Christians helping the downtrodden of the w…

Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…ical” label. This post-election handwringing builds on conversations that took place for over a year among a small set of evangelicals who opposed Trump from the start, but the latest rounds demonstrate an even greater propensity to rewrite history and recent events in an attempt to disconnect evangelicals from the rise of Trump. Back in February, as Trump began to win state primaries with the help of white evangelical support, Russell Moore of th…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…stor from an immigrant family. Despite their differences, a bromance had bloomed. The drive into the country echoed the setup of the critically-acclaimed horror movie Get Out, in which a black photographer accompanies his white girlfriend to her family’s estate. As the landscape gave way to highways flanked by thickets of conifers and low-slung warehouses, Jeff reassured George that his brown body would be safe at this white party. Of course, as a…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…efs that bind this fragmented religious tradition together. The Israeli School of Universal Practical Thought (ISUPK), founded in 1969 by a figure known as Abba Bivens in New York, has often courted controversy and condemnation through its use of highly confrontational street preaching demonstrations. This group has splintered over the past two decades into offshoots such as IUIC, which are located throughout major American cities and have a consi…

Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…many other Catholic colleges, where the religious orders who run these schools argue that allowing faculty to unionize would pose a threat to their religious mission. Arguments about religious freedom’s impact on teaching unions go back to 1979, when high school faculty at “minor seminaries”—diocesan high schools where students were expected to eventually train as priests – took their case for unionizing to the National Labor Relations Board, whe…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…ed in CCS while she was a student at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She was arrested for counseling women on how to get from Chicago to New York City to obtain abortions. Half a century later, Schaper is now the Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City and still active in the faith-based fight for reproductive justice. Schaper spoke with RD about the progressive clergy response should the Supreme Court overturn Roe. T…

The Religious Implications of Nudity

By Steve A. Wiggins

A TSA pat-down—security never felt so good! Or so bad. “But it’s against my religion,” I explain to the stern-looking officer who is directing me to the full-body scanner with a gaze that would stop Superman. I feel as if I have been profiled. A man traveling alone, looking like he has nothing to lose (people tell me I should smile more). It is a lazy weekday morning in the Raleigh-Durham Airport and I am returning from a business trip I didn’t r…

Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist

By Steve A. Wiggins

…was published, to great acclaim. As of October it ranked #273 in Amazon’s book sales category. (Those of us whose books are ranked down in the millions can’t help but feel a little pang of jealousy; it does tell us, however, who is getting read!) Jillette is the vocal member of Penn & Teller, the bad-boy magician duo, and a noted iconoclast. Largely a ramble through his inner monologue, God, No! is the first book to cause me to laugh out loud in y…