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The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…to talk more about religion on the campaign trail, or elected officials aiming to mix religion into policy debates. A majority of those who see religion’s influence as positive, and a majority of Republicans and voters who lean Republican, believe there has been “too little” religious talk from politicians. Those figures are up five points from 2010 among the religion-is-positive respondents, and up nine points among the Republicans and Republica…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…’s emphasis on withdrawal is Dreher’s solution. While statistics about the number of families who homeschool for religious reasons can be hard to find, it’s clear that beyond Dreher’s own Orthodox and Catholic examples, homeschooling, homesteading and a return to agrarian lifestyles—mostly lived out in deeply isolated areas—remain a topic of interest in many Christian communities. A cursory Google search for “Christian homeschooling” or “Christian…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…century. Recent events might seem to only confirm this assessment. A fair-minded observer might plausibly ask, “Are Muslims nuts?” Although, to be entirely fair-minded, for the thousands who did protest against “The Innocence of Muslims,” well over a billion and a half did not. As Megan Reif’s study notes, our media has dramatically exaggerated the response (with Newsweek’s Ayaan Hirsi Ali piling on with her usual opportunistic silliness). Still,…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…e and told me the biblical story of Noah’s ark. Then he told me God had promised never again to destroy the world by water. The symbol of that promise, he said, is the rainbow. For a brief moment, everything in this world disappeared. Nothing remained except for the joy and the mercy of that divine promise. Still, by the time I was a teenager, I had ventured to other churches to seek the varieties of Christian faith expressions. In high school, I…

RDPulpit: I Am Not A Number: Gays and Lesbians and Opinion Polls

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…jority of young evangelicals support either marriage or civil unions.” The numbers remain in line with other recent polls, like one commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)—and I’ll admit my friend Debra Haffner has every right to be encouraged by these statistics—but I can’t get over my anger that my life even has to be the subject of constant polling. Why does the temperature of the populace have to be taken about…

Paul the Pluralist: Jesus’ Number Two Was Not a Christian

By Pamela Eisenbaum

…Gentiles. The prophets had predicted that all the nations would come streaming to Jerusalem to worship the one God, and Paul’s mission was to turn all the Gentiles to God before the world ended. The traditional view of Paul portrays the apostle as converting from Judaism to Christianity and in that process converting from a narrow, spiritually hollow, and xenophobic form of religion to one of grace, faith, and openness. From a Jewish perspective,…

Sharing Many of the Same Flaws as its Subject ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’ Podcast Puts Blame Anywhere But Where It Belongs

By Jessica Johnson

…ingle church. After all of this research on Driscoll and Mars Hill, I know mimicry when I see and hear it; and the graphics, music, and method of storytelling that shape the narrative and experience of the podcast are clearly produced by someone familiar with the milieu in which Driscoll accrued followers and celebrity, while cultivating and capitalizing on its ethos (with some help from the blueprint my book provides, without crediting me beyond…

Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…still count abortion as their number one cultural issue. What you may have missed, however, is what number two was on their list of important issues. Coming in at 18 percent behind abortion’s 41 percent response was “protection of religious liberty.” The “butter” of the usual “bread and butter” issues of the religious right—same-sex marriage—had slipped from the number two position drawing the concern of a paltry seven percent of “value voters.” D…

New Poll Reveals a Paradox in Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…n moral values as a broad commitment to care for all people, while another might have in mind a series of distinct theological positions. The former isn’t likely to clash with the church-state boundary while the latter almost certainly does. Taken as a whole, the survey indicates that Christian nationalism isn’t a popular platform, even among White evangelicals. When respondents are presented with specific pieces of the project, they reject them,…