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Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…after the millennials suggest high levels of religiosity as well). African Americans in general, and African-American women in particular, are among the most religious groups in the nation. So, even though black youth may be expressing their dissatisfaction with the orthodoxies and dysfunction of the black church, they are not, by and large, abandoning these traditions wholesale. This has a lot to do with the role the black church—for good or for…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…ly in the current political atmosphere, I interviewed four pioneers of the American LGBT Muslim movement: Faisal Alam, Urooj Arshad, Raquel E. Saraswati, and Tynan Power. These leaders are members of MASGD’s Steering Committee, and were gracious enough to discuss with me their apprehensions, hopes, and concrete efforts as activists encountering popular suspicion, state-sanctioned persecution, and prejudiced legislation on a new scale. *** As an Am…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…ed the bill into law, some American religious conservatives supported him. American Family Association spokesman and radio host Bryan Fischer tweeted: “Winnable war: Uganda’s president signs a law that protects the natural family and restrains sodomy.” Dr. Michael Brown, a North Carolina-based pastor and activist who has had infamous anti-gay Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa on his show (Ssempa backed the earlier death penalty-containing version of th…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…FA. The denominations and religious groups supporting UAFA include African American Ministers in Action (a project of People for the American Way); Call to Action; Catholics for Equality; Church World Service, Immigration and Refugee Program; Clergy United; The Episcopal Church; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Standing on the Side of Love; the United Methodist Chur…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…31–Feb.8, 2015, paid for by conservative political operative David Lane’s American Renewal Project and the American Family Association. The meeting follows January’s winter meeting of the party committee in Coronado, Calif., where Priebus is set to be resoundingly re-elected to his post. According to Priebus’ email, the trip is not an RNC event, but is reserved exclusively and is being coordinated by the RNC for members and their guests. An RNC s…

How a Pioneer of Branding Invented Christian Fundamentalism

By Daniel Silliman

…aging and trademarking, as it were, old-time religion. How is the story of American capitalism also the story of modern American Christianity? They’re cultural twins. They’re both drawing from the same set of ideas about the nature of self and society that was, frankly, new in the days after the Civil War. These are the idea of the individual being the basic unit of analysis, that individual choices are really what matters, that’s how you create y…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Needs to Get a Grip on his Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…haracterized pro-equality Catholics as not being representative of general American sentiment. “Is this some weird subset of the American population, some little cult? Did I forget to mention that Catholic is the largest single religion in the United States? The people we are talking about are real Americans,” said O’Donnell. “When Glenn Beck slanders those millions and millions and millions of liberal American Catholics, he does so because he…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…ights to religious freedom and freedom of speech, the group’s criticism of American racism and imperialism struck many ordinary Americans as politically radical and thus dangerous. The globe’s most powerful symbol of resistance to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was the Nation of Islam’s most famous member, boxer Muhammad Ali. In 1967, Ali refused induction in the U.S. armed forces to protest the war, and as a result, was forced to give up his…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…hool of Divinity Terri Laws, PhD, Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Randall C. Bailey, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Interdenominational Theological Center Lee H. Butler, Jr., PhD, Distinguished Service Professor of Theology and Psychology, Chicago Theological Seminary Rev. Dominique A. Robinson, DMin, Dean of Chapel & Assistant Professor of Religion, Wiley College Rev. Stephanie M…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…S. Boyer, author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, suggests that religious views about biblical prophecy in the United States have “always had an enormous, if indirect and underrecognized, role [in] shaping public policy.” If the message of apocalyptic demonization is not clear, try reading one of the novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in their Left Behind series of Christian apocalyptic novels whic…