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Transitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly (Again)

By Daniel Schultz

…be despised.” The reality of a fallen world, Moore says, means that we’re all alienated in one way or another “from who we were designed to be,” so there’s no room for Christians to judge transgender individuals. And then he goes right back to more of what you might expect from a Southern Baptist leader: “The cultural narrative behind the transgender turn … is rooted in the ancient heresy of Gnosticism, with the idea that the ‘real’ self is separ…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…to shop. This questionable passion led me to write a book on shopping. I will also confess, like any good Catholic, that guilt is a motivator here as well. Plagued by a consumerist culture that defines our worth and value by what we spend, yet informed by a Christian ethical vision that attempts to undermine that very ideology, I sought to reconcile the two. In addition, shopping is something that unites all of humanity—it is essential to our sur…

Rubio Is Confused About Christianity, Marriage Equality, and the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform” for a speech in which he said, “if our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it’s possible that there might have to be some revengeance taken.” The Ohio law, the Court held, violated Brandenburg’s free speech rights. Although the Court’s opinion does not use the term “clear and present danger” an…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…o recognize bias and account for it responsibly.) One of my favorite informal fallacies to teach students is called the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. The story goes that a fellow shot a bunch of times at the side of an old barn, then painted bullseyes around each bullet hole and proclaimed himself a marksman. The marksman’s folly is easy to see in the story, but a bit more difficult to recognize in real life when we come across things that seem to h…

Why Christian Fundamentalism Is Still a Big Deal in U.S. Politics, And How It Got That Way

By Eric C. Miller

…those disputes are generational and come down to questions about fundamental values and the proper relationship between believers and outsiders. In the last chapter of the book, I turn from the fundamentalist superchurches represented by leaders like Jerry Falwell to the evangelical megachurch movement that was most prominent in the 1990s and early 2000s. Megachurches like Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago are designed to attract young peo…

Dear Lindsay Lohan, I’m Sorry

By Haroon Moghul

…me wildly popular, for unintended reasons. It was widely derided as a “social media fail,” or what we used to know (before the internet disrupted our lives and sense of social decorum) as “an innocent mistake.” Yours was. Mine wasn’t. I shared the image on Twitter, joining a chorus of delighted, sarcastic, none-too-friendly Muslims, Arabs, and associated fifth columnists, who thought this the funniest thing in the world. Actually we were, or at le…

Wanted: Your Vote

By The Editors

…even better, all three), and BOOM! An automatic follow-up tweet or update will be posted for you on April 14 saying you’ve voted for RD in the Webby Awards. While we’d love your vote (and thunderclap), we also wanted to take this opportunity to say a hearty THANK YOU! Thank you for reading, for thinking hard, and for asking the big questions right along with us, year after year. Here’s that voting link again: VOTE FOR RD! Deep bows of gratitude, T…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…in the first three weeks. I wish I had managed more than the once a day daily walk, too. This is not just vanity, nor even that pre-diabetes diagnosis, but I really want to be fit for all the activity. I hope I can avoid the prediction that everyone gets sick, even if just a cold. The only thing I want taxed is my soul, not my aging body. But there you have it. Lastly, I am adjusting my expectations down. I’ve built myself up so much, I’m not saf…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

…that those who leave the church are understood to lack any chance of eternal salvation? Any sort of religious belief? A moral compass? Compassion? An interior life? A sensitivity to truth and beauty or other things Mormons consider related to “the spirit”? The FM response acknowledges that believers might choose to “shun” their “‘spiritually dead’ loved ones” before complaining that Some new non-believers, on the other hand, sometimes wants to sh…

Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…“God spot” (where the brain seems to process religious experiences). You will also find heaps of commentary, most of which assumes either that Religion and science can never peacefully coexist, or that Religion and science get along just fine. Here at The Cubit, Religion Dispatches’ new religion and science portal, we view much of the religion-versus-science debate as hopelessly myopic. Yes, humans are a product of evolution, global warming is re…