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Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…ption, and more openly racist and exclusionary public policies. And a huge number of these voters identify as Christian. And we’re supposed to find a way to reconcile with them? I can’t, and I won’t. The only path forward I can see is the path of confrontation and struggle and relentless organizing for power—nonviolently, of course, but without the genteel gestures toward bipartisanship and compromise centrist Democrats are so fond of. Commentator…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…stant professor of medical anthropology at Oregon State University. The growing number of women seeking a secular midwife has created a gap in care, however. In some areas the preponderance of Christian midwifery, in tandem with restrictive laws, can make it difficult for secular women to locate a well-matched midwife. Anna Waterland-Dykstra, a nurse and director of community options at the Spearfish Family Planning clinic of the South Dakota Depa…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated “really remarkable.” The number of Americans identifying with no religion grew by 19 million from 2007 to 2014, and now the religiously unaffiliated are “more numerous,” said Smith, than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. Much of the rise of the “nones” is attributable to religious switching, mainly from Catholicism and mainline Protestantism. One-fifth of Americans raised Christian are now…

Republicans “Evangelizing” Catholic Voters

By Patricia Miller

…riage is a sacrament and want to safeguard religious liberty.” No doubt he will seek to up his game with Evangelicals and right-leaning Catholics over the next few months. The irony is that Bush, an Episcopalian convert to Catholicism, is in many ways the most traditional Catholic of the sizeable number of Catholics jostling for the GOP nod. Bobby Jindal has labeled himself a “Catholic Evangelical” and even hosted “The Response,” a prayer extravag…

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

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…rly African-American print is having something of a renaissance right now, with a number of books, conferences, and journal special issues devoted to the topic emerging in the past few years. So it could seem (and some have claimed) that this is a newly invented field. But this is not at all the case. My book depends upon the work of pioneering scholars who have sometimes been ignored in the rush to stake “new” academic territory. I wrote The Blac…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ment.’ The question then becomes, which way will the whole of the culture swing? Will it swing in the direction of people taking risks and trying to move toward the future or will the backlash become so strong that it will slow or perhaps even halt the idea of an awakening? We’re standing at that crossroads. Which way is this going to move? Then, it becomes up to us. What we do makes a difference in how the culture actually changes. Both of these…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…vangelicals. What—or who—has led them to believe this? Nobody thinks Obama will win Alabama and Mississippi in November. But for Romney’s Republican adversaries who claim he’s weak in the South, I don’t think this poll helps their argument much. Obviously we’d know more about Republican voter attitudes, and particularly their enthusiasm come November if Romney is the nominee, if we knew more about their views of his Mormonism. But even without tha…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…along lakes. Visit Japan’s first robot-staffed hotel, and you’ll interact with a number of theroids, including a robotic dinosaur. If the dinosaur accidentally hurts you, and you’re elderly, you might be taken care of by a bear. This cuddle bot is a patch of interactive fur, in case that’s your thing. Of course animals aren’t always the best shape for tasks, either. Hotels around the world are buying room service robots that happen to resemble fl…

New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…ecade from 2001-2011, approximately 200 American Muslims have been charged with terrorism-related activities. This number includes those who committed acts of terrorism overseas in places like Somalia and Yemen. Even if we take the conservative number of 2 million Muslims in the U.S., that means 0.01% of Muslims are involved in terrorism-related activity over the span of a decade. Per annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 mi…

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

By Lucas Wilson

…ecause of the hate toward us in Baptist communities.” Of course, only time will tell if Liberty will continue its dirty work of trying to turn queer students straight, but one thing remains clear: Liberty continues to be a proudly homophobic university that revels in its disdain for the LGBTQ+ community. As Tessa Russell, a 2020 graduate, indicates in her recent article about being a lesbian at Liberty, homophobia is alive and well on campus—somet…