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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…s is accessible—these issues impact many people in the atheist community. But what about people in other communities? If this is the case, then interfaith outreach and cooperation is imperative as it strives to decrease the distance between “others” and create opportunities for people to identify shared values and a sense of shared humanity—an understanding of identity that allows people to see another’s freedom and value as connected to their own…

Record Numbers Voted for More Death and More Racism; Can We Really Just Come Together as a Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…and struggle and relentless organizing for power—nonviolently, of course, but without the genteel gestures toward bipartisanship and compromise centrist Democrats are so fond of. Commentators who have been saying for some time that we’re already embroiled in a slow-rolling civil war have got it mostly right. And today’s secessionists very much resemble those of the 1850s inasmuch as they adamantly reject the idea that all are created equal, that e…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…on with the Church.” Canon Law 208-223 has more specific rules for acting out the obligation of the laity, but some of those rules are ambiguously stated, including 209.1, which tells us that “the Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church,” or 210, which says that Christians should try to lead a “holy life” but “according to their own condition.” The linguistic ambiguity of Can…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y, Christofferson participated in a book launch party for “Not Just Good, But Beautiful: The Complementary Relationship Between Man and Woman,” a volume of speeches from last November’s conservative interfaith colloquium sponsored by the Vatican. Among the authors are Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church, Russell D. Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and President Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency of…

Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine

By Mark R. Mullins

…September 30, 2005 that the Prime Minister’s visits did violate the constitution, but denied compensation for damages. This decision did not seem to discourage Koizumi, however, as he returned to Yasukuni the following month during the Fall Festival. Emboldened by the Prime Minister’s actions, 195 Diet members made a group visit to Yasukuni the following day (these politicians belong to a group within the Diet organized in 1981 to encourage regula…

Mormonism’s Black Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…mate there are now about 1 million Mormons of African descent worldwide.) But without an official, explicit clarification of earlier teachings on race, many older Mormons continue to quietly maintain and circulate old beliefs connecting blackness and the priesthood ban to the Cain-Ham genealogy or to lack of spiritual valiance in pre-earthly life. Younger Mormons born after the end of the priesthood ban, and raised in what one prominent black Morm…

Cruz and the Evangelical Illusion

By Sarah Posner

…trying to amass more endorsements, and earlier. His strategy might work. But it’s also worth using some caution in understanding its significance and impact. While his campaign is trying to create an aura of evangelical inevitability, the WORLD magazine (unscientific) survey of evangelical leaders, for example, still shows Cruz running behind Marco Rubio for support among evangelical elites. Although the Texas meeting was off the record, the big…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…recognized the familiar writing patterns and revealed his identity to the authorities. But there is another reason for the anonymity: the perpetrators want the acts to speak for themselves. If one regards acts of terrorism as a kind of performance violence, one can accept the notion that the act itself is the point. A terrorist event is like street theater, meant to draw the witnesses—and all of us who witness it vicariously through television, in…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nation laws require businesses serving the public to provide services without regard to a number of protected characteristics—including, in Washington and Colorado, an LGBT identity. (Washington updated its statewide non-discrimination law to include sexual orientation and gender identity in 2006, and Colorado followed suit in 2008.) Those laws, duly enacted by state legislatures, are what Masterpiece Cakeshop and Arlene’s Flowers are really looki…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…to modernize family doctrine. That pretty much leaves Cardinal Charles Chaput shouting in the wilderness. It’s no coincidence that the high point of white Catholic defection from the Democratic Party coincided with the period of 2012 through 2014, when the Catholic bishops made opposition to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act the centerpiece of their “religious liberty” campaign and repeatedly accused the administration of attack…