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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…logy and occultism (The Apparitionists), to his beautiful account of relic sites (Rag and Bone). In One Nation, Under Gods he writes that “In thinking about religion in American history, we have too often focused only on the church standing above the hole and not on the hole itself.” Manseau’s book, in giving voice to the varied traditions that compose American religion from our earliest days, from indigenous faiths and Islam, to New Religious Mov…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…to suggest that cities that decline to cooperate with federal immigration officials see an uptick in unreported crimes. In short, sanctuary cities do not “breed crime,” as the President has contended. What’s more, cities that don’t cooperate with immigration officials are actually more likely to see local crimes reported when they are committed against undocumented residents, since the city provides a layer of protection to the victim in assuring…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…Judeo-Christian in its mission statement, the popular Generation Joshua website is more explicit and honest about its religious orientation: “We seek to inspire everyone of our members with faith in God and a hope of what America can become as we equip Christian citizens and leaders to impact our nation for Christ and His glory,” a mission unlikely to appeal to many American Jews, whatever their political persuasion. Today, terms like “Judeo-Chris…

The Man Who Hoarded 17,000 Bottles of Sanitizer Did Nothing Wrong ― And That’s the Problem

By Daniel Schultz

…nies’ logic to his own situation. Anyone who’s ever spent time on a travel site hunting for a bargain airfare can tell you about how prices mysteriously start to rise once the algorithms sniff out the interest in the Keokuk-Ft. Wayne route. Likewise, the midwestern home improvement chain Menards applied more or less the same logic as Colvin and wound up being accused by the Michigan Attorney General of doubling prices on crucial items like bleach…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…oncerns may keep Christian pilgrims from baptisms in the Jordan River. The site is believed to be the place where Jesus was baptized but is now contaminated with raw sewage and agricultural run-off. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Bapist Church, noted anti-gay protestors, turned their attention to Comic-con and spewing hate at “idolaters” reading DC and Marvel. The response from the Comic-con faithful is a mix of wit, the bizarre, and beating Phelps…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: Just to show that we are hardcore. Check this site to see what kind of work people are doing in this field. Of particular interest to RD readers, perhaps: “Instruments of Accommodation: The Military Chaplaincy and the Constitution,” by Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle or “Undressing Difference: The Hijab in the West,” by Anita L. Allen. 9.) TOP TEN INTELLECTUALS IN THE WORLD Bimonthly US international affairs journal F…

Evangelical Millennials Good with Government

By Daniel Schultz

…As Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira write at the Center for American Progress site, voters between the ages of 18 and 32 hold good (but necessarily “big”) government in significantly higher esteem than older cohorts. At first glance, that morsel of information seems downright soporific. But for political junkies, among others, there is some significance here. As Molyneux and Teixeira point out, progressives trying to sell activist government programs…

Ex-Gay Leader Defends Program Used to Support Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…this would be the time, Mr. Cohen. One commenter on the Advocate.com’s Web site, Edward from Boston, makes a good point – Cohen had the opportunity, not just to disavow this legislation, but to do more to stop it: … the obvious question was: would he file a complaint with the Ugandan government for misusing his work to justify the potential killing of gays? Would he make a public statement decrying the proposed law? Would he stand with Gay Activis…

Methodist Church Commission Proposes Changes To Call System

By Daniel Schultz

…the same as that laid out in this article from the UMC national office web site about proposed changes to the appointment system, as it’s known. Methodist clergy work for the bishop of their conference – and, basically, only for the bishop – going where they’re told, when they’re told to go. The traditional offset for that sacrifice has been that they are more or less guaranteed a job, as long as they’re fit for it. It seems like a win-win at firs…

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…does God allow suffering?” the first hit was a sponsored result for the website of David Jeremiah, a conservative evangelical preacher in California. Do these websites actually shape people’s responses to deep theological questions? Can search results and search engine optimization influence the beliefs of an individual confronting a difficult question? It’s hard to tell. But as people go online for answers to religious questions, fundamentalist a…