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Exclusion is Causing Great Harm: A Conversation With Suspended UMC Pastor Rev. Cynthia Meyer

By Joel Pitney

…. It’s just terrific. People probably wouldn’t expect that. It’s a very low-income, blue-collar, tiny rural town, but folks are not conservative around this kind of issue. They’re loving. They reach out to everybody. I think that’s true of a lot more “people in the pews” than some in the church want to recognize. The primary difficulty in this conference really has been the Bishop. While he claims to be more in the center, he’s quite conservative…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…es away. He feels compelled to point out that his mother, wife, and brother-in-law (an evangelical pastor) are Christians to further separate his own faith from the aims of his scholarship. Whether in the classroom, at the dinner table, or on the ski lift, telling someone that you study religion is most often followed with, “Which one?,” as though a singular answer would pacify the interrogator. And if the conversation begins to go down the path o…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…ex-gay is very different than simply passing as straight; it’s a far more complicated combination of recognition and denial. In terms of evangelical culture, I think, from the perspective of outsiders, the biggest misconception is that it’s so different from mainstream American culture. The crossover between evangelical and secular self-help culture—whether it’s T. D. Jakes’ gigs on The Dr. Phil Show or Dr. Oz speaking at Saddleback church rally…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…gled history—one that Ed Blum and Paul Harvey bring forth vividly in their new book, The Color of Christ. What did a white Jesus mean to a population of enslaved Africans, or to Native Americans? Why were Mormons in particular so committed to a lily-white God? What can we read into the shattered image of the stained-glass savior in a Birmingham church? The book—an illuminating and powerful read—dives deeply into these and other questions. Anthea B…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…by protests, venue cancelations, and the withdrawal of participation from high-profile politicians.” The group was offered space at the last minute by Catch the Fire Ministries, which was happy to host the event. Catch the Fire said was attended by about 350 people and about 50 protesters. Also headed overseas this month is Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage. HRC reports that Brown will be going to France to take part in a trai…

It’s Time to Reconsider Graduation Prayer in Public High Schools

By Bruce Ledewitz

…, be substituted. There is local outrage but the school board’s attorney recommends compliance to save litigation costs. In the end, the local community is fodder for sophisticated national ridicule. It’s the Scopes Monkey Trial all over again. This year, that town was Bastrop, Louisiana, and the local atheist student was Damon Fowler, who emailed the superintendent of schools, pointing out the unconstitutionality of the traditional prayer. The pr…

RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…of different presidents. I had just finished reading some other funny road-trip books like Steve Almond’s Candyfreak, and all of a sudden it occurred to me that maybe I should get out of my stuffy office and hit the road, see what I could learn by visiting the places where these church/state cases I’d been teaching about for so long actually happened. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I think the overall biggest take-home m…

FX’s ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer’s Book, But Confirms That ‘Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men’

By Benjamin E. Park

…acted, and movingly scored. The storyline vacillates from suspense to soul-searching, and the cinematic effects are useful and riveting. Though the storytelling can at times be a tad loose—the Pyre family’s narrative is never fully developed, nor is Ron’s descent to madness fully believable—it remains overall quite compelling. Even if religion scholars might wince at Mormonism’s reductive framing, much of which takes place in the first episode, m…

“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend

By Wendy Doniger

…e of which I used in the preface to the book). And once I started the paper-chase of research, one tale leading me to another, I found so many stories that I hadn’t known before. I also found the dark side of the myth, involving rape and incest and desertion, as well as some very funny and, occasionally, very dirty stories. The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry Wendy Doniger Oxford UP May 2017 What’s the most important take-home mes…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…of political thought. Most of this had to be cut to make it a more Myanmar-focused book, but it’s all coming back in the next book, which is comparative across the Theravada tradition. (Also, I’m a bit ashamed to say that I didn’t fight hard enough to be able to keep the Myanmar language font in my bibliography. Not that it’s—yet—effectively searchable, but it’s something I think authors working in uncommon languages should really try to advocate…