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Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…ing yoga lest they become Hindu. (I wrote about his warnings here). When a New York Times front-page article brought to mainstream attention the Hindu American Foundation’s “Take Back Yoga” campaign designed to raise awareness of yoga’s so-called Hindu origins, Mohler interpreted it as a “vindication” of his own position on yoga. This move was possible since, as it turned out, Mohler and the Hindu American Foundation shared an essentializing visio…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…munity House. Amnesty has campaigned against Chechen authorities since the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta earlier this year published reports that Chechen authorities had detained, tortured and even killed gay men. In Grozny, authorities responded by claiming that gay men do not exists in the Republic, even as they defended killing them in the name of “honor.” Investigative reporter with Novaya Gazeta, Elena Kostuchenko, was one of the participan…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…st off Interquest Parkway in Colorado Springs, a city referred to as the Jerusalem of evangelicalism. Meet Ted Haggard 2.0 “I’m going to teach the Scripture,” Haggard tells me in his living room two days before the service. “But I’m going to teach it first person singular. I’m going to tell you how God has worked in my life and you can work it out with my story with the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit and how God’s going to walk you through your li…

Who’s Afraid of Sacred Soccer?

By Gary Laderman

…remain trapped in the same old patterns of thought that seek to divide the world into black and white, true and false, right and wrong, without paying sufficient attention to how muddled reality—and what counts as sacred—is for most of us. And, even more frightening to some, is that God really is irrelevant in the religious equation for a growing number of people. An atheist soccer fan can be religious, just as an evangelical Protestant soccer fan…

The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…nsider trading; they made a mockery of antitrust law; they contrived shady new financial instruments (CDOs, etc.) that enriched Wall Street manipulators while bankrupting millions of borrowers; they shipped two-thirds of our manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China and then stripped away the pension benefits of the workers who remained; they even managed to turn public schools and public prisons into profit centers for the investor class. And these…

2022 American Values Survey Offers Some Good News — And Some Bad

By Daniel Schultz

…nk abortion should be legal in most or all cases, and 61% oppose the Dobbs ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade. Turning things around to look at positions very much in the minority is equally revealing: 42% of Americans think that society has become “too soft and feminine.” 40% believe that newcomers pose a threat to American society 31% think that “God intended America to be a new promised land where European Christians could create a society tha…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…ored Girls (2010), have made just under $650 million. Once we consider his New York Times bestselling book Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings, his television series (House of Payne and For Better or Worse), and where he first got his start—his Chitlin’ Circuit stage plays—it becomes clearer how Perry’s empire is a billion-dollar industry. But many people (mostly white people) still do not know who he is! That is especially surprising b…

What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change

By Haroon Moghul

…of far too many Americans to their purported rights—even at the cost of thousands of lives. Of course, faiths are not countries, but both rise and fall based on how we think they work. In recent years, many Muslim communities were devastated by fringe groups that hijacked public discourse—they didn’t understand what Islam actually was, or how it historically worked and, as such, they inflicted chaos and bloodshed wherever they took root. And this,…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…hurches, than in ecumenical parachurch organizations. The likes of Campus Crusade for Christ and Youth with a Mission paved the way for more explicitly political organizations like the Christian Coalition of the 1990s, and the Family Research Council and Family Policy Alliance of the 2000s. But of course if the prochoice religious community were to create parachurch organizations of their own in which matters of reproductive choice, access and jus…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…d.” “I didn’t have a clue what it meant,” Dalton told me. She searched the word forerunner on the internet, and the first result was the Kansas City International House of Prayer, the 24/7 prayer venue founded by evangelists Mike Bickle and Lou Engle, who is also the leader of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went…