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Resolved: Obama Can’t Win Even Young Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads program, I talked with Matt Anderson, author of the book Earthen Vessels (which he describes as a theology of the body for evangelicals) and lead writer for the blog Mere Orthodoxy. Our starting point was Andrew Sullivan’s much-discussed cover story on Christianity, but the conversation took us in some really fascinating directions. In this segment Matt discusses how the Obama administration, and in parti…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads program, I discuss, with The American Prospect’s Paul Waldman, the political obstacles facing the secularist movement in the United States: You can watch the entire discussion, which was prompted by this past weekend’s Reason Rally, here. Waldman wrote more about atheism in the United States in a column at TAP, and I wrote one on the prospects for a secularist political movement for the Guardian. Waldman…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…hat they term “house arrest.” Below, Megan Sweas reports from India on the latest wave of protests. –Eds.] DELHI—Shibayan Raha had worried that this would happen. At a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, a 27-year-old Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran past the podium before police and other activists could douse the flames. As an Indian who has worked for Students for a Free Tibet, Raha has seen young refuge…

How Evangelical Women See Limbaugh

By Sarah Posner

In the latest episode of my Bloggingheads show, Christianity Today online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey and I discuss whether evangelical women’s rejection of Rush Limbaugh’s misogyny will have any impact on either their position on the contraception coverage requirement or the presidential election: You can watch the entire program here; we also discussed the KONY12 controversy and Mitt Romney’s evangelical problem. (Click on the links in the prog…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together.” It was latest epistle in the growing canon of hierarchical statements aimed at gaining exemptions from federal and state laws that protect the rights of same-sex couples. But as the church leaders fortify their culture-war defenses [see here for some of RD’s recent coverage –Eds.], some Catholic universities seem to be taking a decidedly different approach to LGBT issues. A four…

The Republican “No Schools Left” Program

By Julie Ingersoll

…a proper function of government. “Government schools” were the vehicle for promoting the anti-Christian religion of humanism and should ultimately be abolished. Few outside his small circle took him seriously. In Rushdoony’s vision, the single most important tool for transforming the whole of culture to conform to biblical law (i.e. the exercise of dominion), was to replace public education with biblical education. The decades since have brought t…

Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

By Kate Blanchard

…igations of actually practicing a religion.” The Reverend Lillian Daniel’s latest book, When “Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not Enough, will not disappoint readers who have come to enjoy her self-deprecating humor, her theological insights, and of course, snarky jabs at those fence-sitters who want it all: the SBNR. The book is a collection of stories and essays, some more sermonic than others. There is a lovely reflection on being the “stand-in…

Accept Gays? Only If They Know Their Place

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ians crushed and torn by religious hatred in his review of the book in the latest issue of The Christian Century. As an evangelical Christian whose career has been spent in the South, I must say I find it scandalous that the most physically and psychologically dangerous place to be (or even appear to be) gay or lesbian in America is in the most religiously conservative families, congregations and regions of this country. Most often these are Chris…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…rticular piece is by no means the most egregious offender, it’s merely the latest and appears in one of the most well-respected newspapers. The truth is, these same assumptions can be found in numerous papers, periodicals, and of course on TV. Nonetheless, for an article to note an increase in the observance of Islam and to link that to the danger of extremism is to fly in the face of the only real, rigorous evidence we have, without presenting an…

Will the Catholic Church Throw Cold Water on the LARC Revolution?

By Patricia Miller

…dicating that Catholic providers may be gearing up to make an issue of IUD promotion. Even a referral work-around could dampen the effectiveness of a LARC initiative because it interrupts the continuity of care for female patients, requiring them to get an appointment with another provider in another office at another date. This can deter younger and poorer women, who often have difficulty with transportation or getting off from work or school, fr…