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Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…such stories not feel a little proud rush of patriotism, right? A slight welling up in the chest? I don’t mean to sound condescending here, but how can anyone not find such brave principled kids absolutely adorable? Ummm, actually there is one group that seems to hate stories about little kids standing up to bigotry. And that would be the American Family Association. Remember Will Phillips? He’s that adorable 10-year-old kid who in November garner…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…down Jesus.” Meanwhile, in the wake of his recent scandal, Tim Wilson at Killing the Buddha outlines how the Church of Tiger Woods is also burning to the ground. Baptists are using their presences in the military to oppose the repeal of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. Fearing, as the Rev. David Mullis, the Southern Baptists’ military chaplaincy coordinator put it, “if there was a prohibition about certain kinds of literature that did not espouse homosexuali…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…lared himself to be “God’s warrior” and a “terrorist,” and threatened to kill as many abortion providers as he could. Waagner’s threats arrived during the same period when real, post-9/11 anthrax attacks on media outlets and Congress killed five people. In some cases, whole city blocks were evacuated when Waagner’s pacakges were opened. People were stripped and hosed down with Clorox by hazmat teams in protective gear. I quoted several people who…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

I have recently fallen victim to a new mental illness: Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder (PAEDD). Don’t try to look for it in the DSM-IV; that book is full of imaginary pathologies. This one is real. My symptoms include hissing at cars, wishing I were twelve feet tall and blue, feeling a painfully nostalgic yearning to “return” to the magical world of Pandora depicted in James Cameron’s latest film Avatar, and simply wanting to die as I…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…th—although not in the afterlife—protected them from the lowest rungs of hell reserved for people who abuse their priesthood powers. “You couldn’t fall off the top of the ladder, because you weren’t on the top of the ladder. So, in reality the blacks not having the priesthood was the greatest blessing God could give them.” Bott was the highest-rated professor in America in 2008, according to RateMyProfessor.com. He teaches large sections of requir…

On MSNBC RD Editor Discusses Trayvon Martin

By The Editors

…RD contributing editor Anthea Butler, who wrote about Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism this week, appeared on Melissa Harris Perry’s MSNBC program this morning to talk more about the tragic shooting and its aftermath. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

#ReinstateDocHawk: Wheaton Does Not Speak for Its Students

By Ellie Roth

…cholars. But it turns out—while Wheaton is a special and loved place—it still has a lot in common with just about any other community: We disagree on things. Outsiders may assume all students, faculty, administrators and alumnae are in agreement about Dr. Larycia Hawkins’ recent suspension—the way I assumed everyone at Liberty University agreed with the horrifying comments made by President Jerry Falwell Jr. earlier this month. But in actuality, o…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…c Schools building. A special series on religion and culture produced in collaboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Like a lot of Bay Area Gen X kids, many of my friends’ parents were of the original generation Deadheads, with deep ties to the band and its mobile subculture, including a girl from my high school whose mother supplied enough acid to Dead parking lots to pay her kids’ private school tuiti…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Anti-Violence Programs reported earlier this year that, based on data collected from 13 states and Puerto Rico, almost three-quarters of LGBTQ homicides in 2013 were transgender women, more than two-thirds trans women of color. In Wales, Liberal Democrats marked Transgender Awareness Week by leading a debate in the Welsh Assembly on issues faced by trans people. Gambia: UN, Amnesty International Sound Alarm About Anti-Gay Persecution This week…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…back and picked my favorites, then solicited additional nominations from fellow podcast fans and Religious Studies scholars. The results are in, with two runners up and one winner in each of three categories. Many were nominated, only nine could win, and I guarantee that every episode below is worthy of a download. Category One: Explorations of the Uncanny Numerous scholars of religion have associated religion with the “uncanny,” an ambiguous, eer…