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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…erhaps the most moving sentiment came from a Christian minister who said during the memorial: “Personally, I am embarrassed that it’s taken a tragedy for me to come here and introduce myself to you.” All of us—atheist and religious—should consider it an embarrassment that there isn’t more goodwill and cooperation between religious communities and the nonreligious. There have been at least nine additional attacks on American Muslims and Sikhs in ju…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…lted from eliminating a requirement that an organization employ and serve primarily people of its own faith to qualify for an exemption) would make Catholic schools and charities that are operated out of parishes and dioceses eligible for the exemption. This will, Catholics for Choice argues, increase the number of employees of Catholic organizations who would be deprived of contraception coverage, even if they aren’t Catholic themselves (or are C…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…rue in any field of study (activism, for example, led to the creation of African-American Studies, women’s studies, queer studies, and other ethnic studies), which is why Shukla’s innocuous call for more engagement with Hindus in the study of Hinduism is hardly as ominous as Jerryson claims. The Legacy of Orientalism I’ll conclude with why HAF’s criticisms of Doniger’s scholarship resonates in both academic and non-academic circles. Unlike the stu…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…regarded as the grave challenge posed by “degraded” Native Americans and African Americans living in close proximity to whites. Guyatt’s book is divided into three sections, each treating a major theme or phase in the white reformers’ efforts. He devotes four of his chapters to “degradation,” three to “amalgamation,” and four to “colonization.” To be clear, most of the white civic leaders who fretted about “degradation” did not believe that people…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…struction of elephants is not a new phenomenon, however. Varieties—North African, Syrian, etc.—all went extinct at the hands of ancient humans far before the modern era. And the demand for ivory, whether for religious or spiritual or aesthetic reasons, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. In a history of millennia of the destruction of elephants, saving a few hundred seems utterly insignificant. Yet, I remind myself, fragments of care quite…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…lahoma, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. That won’t be a surprise to most Americans, but the extent to which the SBC depends on this “base” might be: since 1950, about 75-80 percent of the total membership has lived in those states. Texas alone makes up almost 20 percent of the total.* And here the trouble begins. If you look at the rate of growth—not the total number of people joining, but the rate by which the church is growing—it…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…ion from ideological evangelicalism—the idea that being an evangelical is primarily a matter of a conservative social identity. (Yes, the SBC was heavily involved in building ideological evangelicalism in the first place. They’ve had second thoughts, apparently.) Moore’s no idiot. He no doubt has demographic data in front of him that shows the SBC is going to be in real trouble if it doesn’t differentiate itself from the GOP… like, yesterday. So h…

Liberty University’s In-House Conversion ‘Therapist’ Retires, But Will the Christian School Cease This Discredited Practice?

By Lucas Wilson

…announcement—several of us have made it our duty to bear witness to how Emerick tried, but unsurprisingly failed, to make us straight. Andrew Hahn’s Poetry Collection, God’s Boy (2019) Andrew Hahn, a 2013 graduate, has been a front-runner in writing about his experience as a queer man at Liberty. The author of God’s Boy—a deeply poignant yet heart-breaking collection of poetry about being queer at Liberty and in Lynchburg—partially details his exp…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…and forth between attending a Catholic church and a Baptist mega-church. Chris Christie who? By contrast, Jeb Bush’s brand of go-to-church-in-polo-shirts, cozy-up-to-powerful-bishops (who then turn a blind eye as you preside over a record number of executions) and occasionally make-noise-about-how-much-you-care-for-the-poor-as-you-gut-social-welfare-programs-type of Catholicism, as detailed by the New York Times, seems positively 20th century. The…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…ut your topic? Outside of a small group of specialists in early African-American print culture, most people that I’ve talked to about my subject are surprised to learn that black women and men had a press of their own before the Civil War. So the biggest misconception about my topic may very well be that my topic doesn’t exist. And even when antebellum black newspapers have made it into conversations about American history, or the history of journ…