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‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…vernment Reform Committee, heard Fluke’s testimony as part of a separate panel convened by Democrats after the Committee’s chair, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), blocked her from testifying. In an attempt to turn the tables on the Democrats’ complaint that Issa’s opening panel was made up entirely of men, Hagen insisted that women like her are being silenced by Cummings. At the rally, there were men and women of all ages—some older, some with school-age…

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…t people who were staunch supporters of a “tough on crime” approach until one of their loved ones got locked up. I’ve met people who were somewhat indifferent to criminal justice system before they were involved in a prison ministry, and then became ardent advocates for reform. Take, for example, Burl Cain, the former warden at Louisiana’s Angola Prison, who I have been following. He is a Southern Baptist who once identified as a conservative on c…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…n) community as a whole, which currently views him as a hero. Can you imagine the pressure? And yet, so far at least, neither Tebow nor Lin has fallen. No crashed cars at three a.m., no extramarital affairs, no steroids. I can’t help but think that their Christian faith has helped them cope with their sudden fame. They have strong ethical values. Each day, they pause to remember that no matter how important they are, they are not the most importan…

Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…files that can be streamed on the web or downloaded straight to your smartphone (think radio meets YouTube). Low overheads have made podcasting a diverse and democratic medium, attracting everyone from established radio programs to Christian pastors and stand-up comedians. To help you make it through the holidays I’ve compiled a list of this year’s best podcasts about religion. My criteria were strict, my methods thorough: I’ve been listening to…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…d in 2005. “When it’s not possible to prevent or repeal an (intrinsically unjust) law … one could rightly offer their support to proposals to limit the damage of such a law,” he wrote on Facebook, citing the late pope. Scammell writes that in spite of their victory on the adoption provision, religious conservatives were still unhappy with the civil unions bill: Moreover, the Vatican’s secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, reinforced the church’s pos…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…dy is detectable throughout popular culture, but especially serves as a cornerstone of that infamous and growing “alternative” to religious orthodoxies: spirituality. The Pew Research Center has testified to the growth of the “religiously unaffiliated,” which they have dubbed the “nones.” While I question their conclusions regarding the extent to which the unaffiliated are actually religious or spiritual, their evidence suggests the unaffiliated a…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…ormon politicians revoked their endorsement of his candidacy, the Church-owned newspaper requested that he step down from the ticket, early polls showed Utah to be a toss-up state, and some observers wondered if the Church could lead the opposition to Trump and his supporters within the Republican Party. Coupled with the rise of Evan McMullin, a conservative candidate from Utah who happens to be Mormon, things looked ripe for political turnover wi…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…s when they discovered he accepted evolution. Others have come to the microphone after a talk and implied that, in accepting evolution, he was “under the influence of the devil.” Collins regularly gets critical commentary from non-believers like Jerry Coyne and Sam Harris, but, as he has said, the “nastiest” messages come from fellow Christians, “infuriated that someone who claims to be a believer could say these things about the truth of the evol…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…ous group most likely to indicate outright refusal to take a Covid-19 vaccine, while a number of other studies have also found that number hovering close to 25 percent. Journalists and academics alike have attempted to make sense of this discrepancy, pointing to existential fear, anti-intellectualism, and Christian nationalism as potential influences on American evangelicals’ vaccine antipathy. As a scholar of American evangelicalism and media, I…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…er-the-top defensive of David Jang, and so massively pejorative toward anyone who questioned him, that the Christian Post (at least in that instance) essentially abandoned the pretense of journalism and became Jang’s defense attorney.” Ted Olsen told me, “I was aware of almost everything in the [Post] article…There wasn’t anything that, even if it was true—which I have questions about—would have negated anything in our [CT] article.” This shouldn’…