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RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…e of rolling out a series of key upgrades to the site—an enhanced reading experience, better integration with social media, peace on earth. (We’ll be updating via our newsletter, here.) It’s our birthday, but it’s you who deserve the party (and the gluten-free, kosher, vegan, cruelty-free cake). Thank you for reading, for writing, and for your thoughtful and dynamic engagement with the ever-evolving question of religion in public life and culture….

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…the role of Islam in the organization of a society can now be coupled with new forms of political experimentation. We cannot pretend to know what political Islam looks like anymore because it is evolving and changing by the moment. This is the moment that new civil society organizations, including new universities and think tanks, sprouting up across the Gulf will prove their worth and all those young Gulf-citizens will truly earn their PhDs. …

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ner (R-OH) frames this as simply the latest skirmish in a never-ending war between tax-cutting Republicans and big-government, big-spending Democrats. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired off what is perhaps the most ominous shot yet. Democrats, he warned, have failed to learn from history, since all the big spending associated with Roosevelt’s New Deal “did nothing” for the economy. Unemployment, he suggests, was still at 15% in 1940. No, what go…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ilee Day and those who came afterward were keenly aware of the temporal proximity between Juneteenth and the 4th of July. As stated previously, Juneteenth is not a replacement or substitute for the 4th of July holiday, nor is it the “Black 4th of July.” This point cannot be stressed enough. This line of argument shares a common misunderstanding with a line of T-shirts that feature the message “Dear Racism, I’m Not My Grandparents” that convey the…

Whether it’s Celebrated by CT or Denied in NYC, Evangelical Proselytizing Isn’t in Quarantine

By Chrissy Stroop

…se is hardly the only case. The Homeschool Legal Defense Association and a new initiative called Public School Exit, which is backed by members of the John Birch Society and whose rhetoric is clearly derived from Christian Reconstructionism, are both using the current crisis to recruit parents into the far right-wing Christian Homeschooling movement. We need to be aware of these stealth assaults on the separation of church and state, and we must n…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…d and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.” Just what exactly the dynamic of equals participating in a leader-helper relational dynamic looks like, however, remains unclear. While SBC pastor Dave Miller has exhorted that “complementarians do not endorse patriarchal, paternalistic attitudes that degrade women,” former SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president Russell Moore has famously atte…

I Want a Perfect Body

By Jeremy Biles

…ern media, reflecting an increasingly narrow palette of beauty.” Holy Anorexia Anxiety and devotional attention to the body are, of course, nothing new in religious life. Scholars of medieval religion know that control over eating was, as Caroline Walker Bynum has said, “at the core of religious world-denial.” Today’s body disciplines extend well beyond attention to diet. The rigors of cosmetic surgery, for instance, are also anticipated in medie…

Einstein’s Religion, Darwin’s Agnosticism

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e in mind? And which sciences? The apparent inescapability of the conflict between orthodox Christianity and Darwinian biology was the foundation on which the 20th-century phenomenon of “fundamentalism” was built. But that seems merely the latest skirmish in a far longer war. Indeed, one of the most striking features of much contemporary discussion of the battle between religion and science is the way both sides (rest assured, there are really mor…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l revolutionaries to undermine the teachings of the Church and to impose a new sexual orthodoxy on the whole world. The new sexual orthodoxy is nothing more than a new religion celebrating a new god, an angry god, a jealous god. This new god of the sexual revolution cannot stand even slight disagreement…The impending catastrophe is that this new god may be enshrined in a UN document, one that will be used by the sexual revolutionaries all over the…

A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity

By Brian Bantum

…l our bodies and our differences are to a loving God, and how racism and sexism are two examples of how human falleness distorts the beautiful possibilities of our lives together. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? When I think about our current political, social and theological moment, I can see competing narratives about what it means to be human, what it means to be a people. I hope this book begins to offer c…