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The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…ite Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement? In all seriousness, this book originated in my body—specifically in my left hip. A few years prior to the book’s conception, I’d been experiencing a lot of pain in that area. When I finally went to the doctor, x-rays revealed that there was no cartilage left in the joint and that the top of my femur was jagged and worn (it’s supposed to be smooth and round). I was forty-seven a…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…e defectors from the traditional black church, some were white Christian millennials eager to dive into social movements and a few were older white congregants starting to recognize the meaning of privilege for the first time. Regardless of where individuals were in their faith or their activism, all were rapt with attention, ready to listen to the lived experiences of Ferguson and Missouri residents. “We need to see Ferguson as a burning bush,” M…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…ty with the Black Lives Matter movement has been a slap in the face—especially for me as a Black woman. During my childhood and early adolescent years, I had the misfortune of attending several evangelical white Christian schools. As I neared the 8th grade, the last school where I was enrolled (which for the record had a quota of how many black students it would accept) proved to be the most damaging to my psyche. For the subsequent three years, i…

Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic

By Heron Greenesmith

…DC, the Family Research Council hosted a panel of anti-trans speakers who illustrated the evangelical-right’s continued shift towards storytelling as a tactic against health and justice for transgender people. The panel began with Lynn Meagher, an activist associated with anti-trans Hands Across the Aisle and the parent of two trans children. Meagher described having a dream in which she held her children, fed them healthy food, and cared for them…

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet On March 18, 2020, at 7:09 in the morning, residents of Salt Lake City and the surrounding counties of northern Utah awoke to a 5.7 magnitude earthquake that struck 10 miles outside the city. Fortunately, there appears to have been no loss of life, although there was some property damage throughout the area. The iconic Salt Lake City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

How Iowa Became a Stronghold of the Religious Right

By Randall Balmer

…he United States, wrote at the beginning of his memoir. “Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops.” Having spent my high-school years in Des Moines, I too have fond and nostalgic recollections of Iowa. Although I initially harbored an adolescent’s resentment at having to move from Michigan to what I reviled as “farm country,” Iowa soon won me over with its lovely undulating hills, its str…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

Did a high school really suspend a student for saying “bless you” when someone sneezed? And if not, what really happened? As school resumed this month, a story emerged about Kendra Turner of Dyer County, Tennessee, who was allegedly chastised by her teacher for saying, “Bless you.” (“Bless you” appeared on a list of words that were considered distracting or inappropriate for use in the classroom, alongside words like “boring” and “hang out.”) Acc…