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Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…escape. Given how ham-handed, false, and mean-spirited the conservative campaign has been, it pains me to say how the right has played this to its advantage. As I wrote yesterday, the shadowy suggestions of Obama — dating back, of course, to the 2008 presidential campaign — with being a Muslim, and therefore being a terrorist, and this therefore being the “Obamosque” representing a fifth column of sharia-supporting enemies, has undoubtedly played…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ched at the end of this summer, Kreeft’s larger point has resonated with a number of religious leaders. Echoing Pope John Paul II’s prediction that third millennium could be marked by a unified Christianity, Kreeft predicted: “The age of religious wars is ending; the age of religious war is beginning: A war of all religions against none.” Ultimately, the WCF doesn’t draw the numbers of other global alliances like the World Social Forum. In 2007, f…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…educators or health care professionals grapple with on a daily basis? The number-crunchers are forcing us to speak their language and play their game, though they make no parallel effort to learn ours. And that is precisely what this not-so-benign linguistic analogy suggests. If “religion” (never defined) is like Quechua—and thus rapidly dying out, I take it—then who’s speaking the religious equivalent of imperial Spanish? It would seem to be the…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…elebration in Dhaka on April 14 because Islamists had threatened to attack participants. The advocate with whom the Blade spoke on Monday said that Roopbaan was also targeted. More from Human Rights Watch: The killings follow a spate of recent targeted attacks on writers, educators, bloggers, and editors who promote liberal and secular ideas that radical groups believe are against Islam. The killings of Mannan and Mahbub brings to nine the number…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…urch in America (RCA) in 1857, but for us the schism was still so real and palpable that it was as though it had happened yesterday. We were First Reformed (RCA) people, and my dad would privately refer to the CRC zealots as “the cutoffs” and the “holier-than-thou” crowd. (And it should be said that in the Village of Oostburg—pop. 965 when I was attending Oostburg HS—there was real competition for the holiness crown, because we also had an Orthodo…

National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ex ratios (which are notoriously noisy sets of data), but with measures of parental investment, such as “time spent with sons vs. daughters”. What they come up with is that there is, wonder of wonders, a lot of gendered cultural variation in parenting. (No! You think?) Since Trivers-Willard doesn’t even hold up in baboons, who at least meet the boundary conditions of Trivers-Willard, there is no reason to think that it ought to apply rigorously to…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…ople could die in the U.S. alone. The grief of each person will be just as palpable to loved ones, but the communal shock of a single death will be diffused by the sheer number of our dead. Our Good Death narratives include gatherings of those left behind for the purpose of remembering the dead. We want to die surrounded by those we love, and we also want those we love to surround us when we have lost someone close to us. In the coming months, pub…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…nd hopefully the people I know and love will remember me, but then they’ll pass on and their families and friends will pass on until I will become just an anonymous name in a cemetery somewhere. There’s something sad about that, the anonymity of the people who lived before us, but there’s something beautiful about it too, how life just keeps going. We can all sometimes forget about that. I know I have. I know I have taken people for granted, but I…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…—a designation some Nones also find distasteful because it makes religious participation the basis for identification rather than… rather than what? “Even ‘agnostic’ or ‘atheist’ carry a lot of cultural baggage that I just don’t want to take on,” explained an undergraduate at a liberal arts college in Ohio who periodically joins fellow students at a Friends meeting across from campus. He reports that he prays “sometimes” when he’s faced with a dif…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…Southern Baptist Convention will have to start looking like the millenial South if they want to stick around. * I’m using data from The ARDA, which break down membership by state, but which apparently don’t match the SBC’s self-reported numbers. If anyone from the convention has state-level data they want to send me, I’ll gladly update the analysis….