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New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

…December 2019. As I argued here on RD last March, there’s no good reason that churches should be exempted from quarantine requirements, but that hasn’t stopped America’s right-wing Christians from defying legally-mandated public health measures and demanding religious exemptions, including through the American court system. Feucht frames his “Let Us Worship” concerts, for which he regularly fails to secure the proper permits, as a protest against…

Race, Reparations and the Search for Our Molecular Soul

By Michael Schulson

…grave and to do the analysis on his remains. That paradox led me to think that what we’re asking of DNA is more than just the “truth” of it (and truth in quotes because there are lots of things that are provisional about the technology). What does DNA add? I think it can add a deeper sense of history. If you’re doing genetic ancestry testing—bracketing for a moment the veracity of the test—what these inferences provide can often be long histories….

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…ding from the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute’s sample academic freedom bill, explicitly says that teachers are permitted to use supplemental materials to teach critiques of evolution and opens the door to teaching creationism and intelligent design. In response, SICB chose to hold its annual conference in Utah, whose state Board of Education recently passed a resolution recognizing that “the Theory of Evolution is a major unifying conc…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nwhile, Molpus just keeps saying gutsy things—like when he told a roomful of people, one of whom was Governor Haley Barbour: Few politicians today use outright race baiting, but we see the symbols some use and the phrases they utter and everyone knows what the code is—what really is being said. Oh, and he’s also called attention to how voter ID laws endanger the voting rights of poor and elderly people, and was named a Champion of Justice by the M…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…orkers the United States will get “knocked off its global perch.” Because that’s what’s at stake, ladies and gentlemen—American domination. So, my (heterosexual) compatriots, take off your clothes, take off your condoms, take out your IUDs and diaphragms, stop swallowing your birth control pills, have your vasectomies reversed, quit it with the rhythm method, and do the hard, hot, steamy work your country needs you to do: reproduce. And then do it…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…co-organized the conference alongside Hivos International, a Dutch group that promotes LGBT and other human rights issues, and Caribe Afirmativo, a Colombian advocacy organization. The Association of Youth in Movement, which advocates on behalf of LGBT Hondurans and other marginalized groups, also sponsored the gathering alongside the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS and other foundations, non-governme…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…orquist of being a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, Gaffney expressed hope that the Faith and Freedom Coalition would “take up the fight against shari’ah.” Afterwards, I asked Breger if he thought Gaffney was dangerous. “I don’t want to use that word,” he said, adding “but I think the view that he’s espousing has the potential to have very deleterious consequences.” Because George W. Bush said he was fighting terrorism, not Islam, Breger went on, t…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…nched liberal bias, and they saw their new media ventures as an answer to that bias. That’s important, because it links conservative media and liberal bias, and it makes liberal bias normative. That is, the assumption of liberal bias underwrites everything conservative media activists do. For the first ten to fifteen years of conservative media, not too many Americans heard about this liberal bias—conservative media simply wasn’t powerful or well-…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…us categories that now feel as permanent as mountains and rivers. Again, that’s not to say that ethnic categories are meaningless. But to follow Robinson into the history of exploration is to encounter the fragility of sight—and, in particular, to feel the close relationship between power and blindness. No gaze is more faulty, Robinson ultimately suggests, than that of the conqueror. Also on The Cubit: Race, Reparations, and the Search for Our Mo…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…Our conversation happened as the guard was looking on, and I realized at that moment, that this is not the way to get the story, under the eyes of the guard. So I started to think how I could get a more insider perspective, what prison would look like without that filter. The answer was obvious: I would need to spend some time in whatever prison I was studying, eating the same food as the inmates, sleeping in the same cells. It was also a way to…