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Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend

By Kathryn Joyce

…legal challenges to the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. Americans United executive director Rev. Barry W. Lynn urged an inquiry into his record on church-state separation while the Secular Coalition for America argued that, “McHugh’s past record in the House of Representatives indicates an unwillingness to improve our military’s policies that relate to religious proselytizing and discriminatory practices.” But these concerns were n…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…es of experience being religious, such that my worldview is irrevocably American Protestant. And I have had more years of religious education than I care to count, including a Master of Divinity degree and a doctorate in Christian ethics. I think and talk about religion for a living, and I also read religious/spiritual materials, usually Buddhist, in my free time. I am married to an ordained pastor, we baptized our child when he was born, and we h…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…produces new insights on issues like Islamophobia, Richard Dawkins, and American politics. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. On the Limits of Language, Religion, and Arguing with Richard Dawkins How did scholars use to think about the brain and the self? And what was wrong with that? Somewhere in the history of Western thought in particular, we ended up with this model of subjects as primarily linguistic thinking beings. There…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…so lots of split ends, digressions into issues which divide us. Working Americans are not going to cozy up to critiques of American imperialism. While the Arab Spring was focused enough (line) to galvanize huge swaths of the mainstream, the Occupy movement is too diffuse (circle) to do so. Having lodged that objection, I now want to answer it myself. Because there is a linear argument that can be teased from the all-circular Occupy strategy, and I…

Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC

By Frederick Clarkson

…the New Apostolic Reformation, the largest religious movement in recent American history, has unabashed, undemocratic, and well documented political aspirations. While that alone is not unusual, what is important here is that, because apostles and prophets of the NAR are recognized by their followers, and each other, as being in direct communication with God, a decree from an apostle is understood as a statement of direction from God. It’s also im…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…relegated to an unofficial panel, in a tiny room, on preserving religious freedom. There, Breger laid out why shari’ah law is no more scary than halacha, or Jewish law, and why conservatives and other Americans need not fear its infiltration into our courts which, Gaffney maintains, is happening as we speak. Khan and other panelists were confronted by followers of Gaffney, equipped with video cameras, about their supposed ties to jihadists, the M…

Know-Nothing Christians Irate Over Obama Comments

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s voices raised in protest over President Obama’s speech assume is that America is a Christian nation, not a secular nation at all. And in so saying they adopt the old idea of America as “a city upon a hill”—always exceptional, and made all the more exceptional but its fidelity to biblical ideals. In fact, President Obama is far more comfortable with this rhetoric than many other Christians on the left side of the theological spectrum. The idea he…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…icrobe cells, mutated cells. We are built, too, of our parents, of genetic code and flesh and blood and bones that grow inside of flesh and blood and bones. So we come again to the parents: “There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer,” Hazel tells us. Green, who is now the parent of two children, told The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, that his own…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana became the first governor to sign an “academic freedom” bill into law. Observers on both sides of the issue are now waiting for the first school district in the state to adopt a curriculum based on this new language. Of course, these academic freedom bills, along with the “teach the strengths and weaknesses” wording in Texas are merely a watered-down version of intelligent design—what Judge John E. Jones III, in his rul…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…effort anywhere you can. Turns out, though, there were no more jobs in America that didn’t require a union card, and “Bigod nobody is going to make him join anything whether it is the Elks or the Moose or the Mice or the Muskrats or whatever. It is the principle of the thing with George, and, moreover, being a native American and a veteran of the last war, he has a rather narrow prejudice against being ordered around by guys who talk like they ju…