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Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…can survive the wrath that is to come in November. We’ll see. Ted Cruz opened door number three on Tuesday: “This man is a pathological liar,” Mr. Cruz said, ticking off Mr. Trump’s distortions, his infidelities, his penchant for conspiracy theories. “The man is utterly amoral.” As I mentioned the other day, the rejectionist route seems to be the one Baptist leaders are taking as well. Any of these options involves some risk, but door number thre…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…s one that is being largely ignored. 9/11 is frequently lifted up as the genesis of “New Atheism,” and it’s not uncommon to see people at atheist conferences wearing shirts declaring that “9/11 was a faith-based initiative.” Popular atheist blogger Greta Christina has stated that she considers 9/11 the atheist Stonewall—a symbolic equivalent to a moment many regard as the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement. Statements such as this make m…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…Americans at risk.” Becket claims the rule fails to protect for-profit businesses and their owners; that the expansion of the exemption beyond houses of worship was inadequate; and that the accommodation to provide coverage to employees of religious organizations that were not entitled to an exemption was “convoluted’ and “may not resolve religious organizations’ objections to being coerced into providing contraceptives and abortifacients to their…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…r comments. In fact, he did get his comment published. For the record, HAF never called for a ban and vigorously condemned any form of academic censorship. To conflate HAF’s position with Batra is both laughable and offensive, because it lumps together an expanse of criticism—intellectual and irrational—as one. Shukla’s call for academic integrity in the AAR—which was vetted by a number of scholars active in AAR —is not different from the codes of…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…secondary problem was the likely horrified white response to having a huge number of newly-freed blacks living among them in both the North and the South. The alleged “degradation” of black people ruled out normal social intercourse—widespread emancipation without separation of the races was unthinkable Although “degradation” was first used to describe the condition of enslaved Africans, by 1810 the term was also being applied to Native Americans….

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…. In March 2013, a mob led by Buddhist monks attacked a series of Muslim owned businesses in the capital city of Colombo. In June 2014, several days of communal violence erupted after an altercation between a Buddhist monk and three Muslim youth. In February 2018, fueled by online misinformation about Muslims secretly sterilizing Sinhalese people, violence erupted in the small town of Ampara and spread to other areas as well. And after the April 2…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…nan and Bryan Fisher share with Breivik, though perhaps only he could imagine the connections that, in his mind, would unite Hindutva, American conservatives and neoconservatives, and European nationalists in a war against Islam. Only Breivik could imagine a post-clash world where each region of the globe was dominated by its own brand of conservative nationalism and peace was assured through mutual recognition of national purity. At least I hope…

Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…ns at its disposal. And if we don’t fight back, using every means at our disposal, we will lose every claim to self-respect, let alone the respect of generations to come….

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…t abortion works. Midwifery care was always tied to abortion care. This connection is not a new thing. The current political environment in the U.S. silos abortion from anything else.” For Prentice, birth advocates who explicitly place childbirth care along the spectrum of reproductive care are using a framework that doesn’t make sense. “This idea that we should be in bed with people who are pro-choice because we’re allowing women to choose where…

Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…r Putin and Patriarch Kirill’s absurd assertions that the invasion of Ukraine is necessary to prevent the acceptance of LGBTQ rights. This willingness to betray any other moral demand and make any allegiance, even with the most vile of leaders, so long as the narrow cultural objectives of American Christian nationalists are met (i.e., anything goes so long as you’re allowed to oppress women, gender and sexual minorities, and non-Christians) is the…