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Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…means the same thing in the United States as elsewhere. Take that earlier number of 68% of the “unaffiliated” believing in God or a higher power in the United States. That drops to 30% in France (233). According to that previous Pew research, one reason more people identify as “unaffiliated” now is that people who used to skip church and not really believe anything in particular simply felt a social pressure to identify with a religion anyway. No…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…for a two-day weekend—one of the great labor victories of the century. One high-profile rabbi, Abba Hillel Silver, went further, framing Shabbat as a model for resistance against the excesses of a consumption-driven culture. (The University of Iowa scholar Benjamin Hunnicutt has done some fascinating work on this period). Of course, these issues haven’t gone away. Questions of time, labor, and standardization are more relevant than ever. The loss…

Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ervant LDS family in Arizona, the fourth of ten children. After graduating high school, he attended Brigham Young University, served a proselytizing mission in France, and then married in an LDS temple. He became the father of five children. He served in his local LDS congregation. He did everything that was asked of him. And over the course of more than twenty years, Bryan slowly came to terms with the fact that he was attracted to men. Six years…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…lace in Lo and Behold. Behind an image of Tibetan monks staring into their phones with the Chicago skyline behind them Herzog asks “Have the monks stopped meditating? They all seem to be tweeting.” But the power of the internet is not in a few addicts who can’t pull themselves away from their screens, rather it’s in its omnipresence. Herzog avoids the everday aspect of the net (and attendant statistics) looking instead for the colorful and odd ind…

Is the Rise of “Nones” Actually the Decline of Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…riven by one factor: millennials.” He points to structural reasons for the high rate of disaffiliation among millennials, including the high rate of divorce in the early 1980s when the millennials where children. “It’s more complicated raising children in a religious context in joint custody arrangements,” Cox said. But it’s also worth noting, given the high rate of Catholic disaffiliation and the fact that one-third of Catholics gave the clergy s…

Catholic Bishops’ Theological Mistakes on Abortion Come at a High Price

By Mary E. Hunt

The facts do not seem to be in dispute: a man from Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil raped his ten-year-old niece. By the time her pregnancy was discovered, her local jurisdiction declared that she was four days over the limit and the fetus was scant grams over the weight permitted for an abortion. She was transported 1000 miles to Recife, Pernambuco where she had an abortion as allowed under the circumstances by Brazilian law. In a decent, just wo…

As Court Prepares to Rule on Sacred Apache Site, Religious Freedom Faces an American Right Prized Above All Others

By Dana Lloyd

…cases sound very similar, and even though the court failed to protect the High Country from development, it should nonetheless protect Oak Flat. (Despite the Supreme Court ruling the High Country has been protected by Congress as wilderness.) There are two main differences between the cases. The Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa relied on the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and on the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, a law that requires…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…me with many families receiving some form of public assistance, and a very high unemployment rate because there’s little access to jobs that have moved away. So you have a community that is depressed. In such communities where there’s little hope and high unemployment, there are more single-parent households because there are fewer men who are able to support families. Single parenthood rises, and children grow up in environments where there is li…

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction

By Gary Laderman

Forget the war on drugs. As Jimmy Carter recently argued in the New York Times, it is time to call off this wasted effort, heed the recommendations of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, and create more reasonable, empirically-based, economically beneficial rules and regulations. It is time to shift policies, attitudes, and responses in the face of a rampant hunger for drugs across all sectors of society. Let’s face facts: despite the vacuous s…

Update: Mubarak Steps Down; The Crash After Mubarak’s Speech

By H.A. Hellyer

…s. But last night, Egypt was high. And then, it crashed. Egyptians weren’t high on drugs yesterday, of course. But as the rumor mill kicked into high gear, fueled by leading statements from the military, as well as media leaks, the mood in Egypt turned into one of jubilancy and elation. The expectation was that Mubarak would step down – for hours, people thought that he had already fled the country, and that the state address he was scheduled to g…