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The Evangelical Pluralism Problem and its Media Enablers

By Chrissy Stroop

…g a belief in pluralism. Everyone else is a second class citizen. They are welcome to live in a free society, but they are merely tolerated. Fea was equally frank about the typical evangelical approach to religious freedom, perceiving a kind of “soft Christian nationalism” in evangelicals’ narrow focus on things like “sexual politics or religious practice in public education.” To which he added: “I did not see any evangelicals rising up to fight f…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…btle” she observes, “and it suggests that if you don’t agree, you aren’t welcome and you even may be un-American. That’s a lot of pressure when you’re in elementary school.” Measures in Category 2 are framed as “Resolutions and Proclamations Recognizing the Importance of Religious History.” The only one of these to be introduced in 2018 was the Proclamation Recognizing Religious Freedom Day. But while the measures in this group may be subject t…

Fighting Fire with Ire: 3 Lessons from Noam Chomsky’s Takedown of Sam Harris

By Andrew Aghapour

…t be surprised to learn that Chomsky’s refusal to just be polite came as a welcome surprise. Here are three take-home lessons from the Harris vs. Chomsky Fight of the Century. 1. Call Out Bullshit Thought Experiments. For Sam Harris, “not all cultures are at the same stage of moral development.” Yes, he admits, the U.S. has committed atrocities at a larger scale than many of our enemies, but we have higher moral standing because these were mistake…

Sacred&Profane: From Bono to the Jedi Police—Who Needs God?

By Gary Laderman

…nity may have faced the same kind of incredulity and disdain. My response: Welcome to the twenty-first century, when sacred matters are not limited to the monotheists, or confined by conventional religious traditions. Bono and Warren Buffet, Master Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi are legitimate guiding religious lights whose words and actions stir the imagination and rally the faithful in ways those of us who study religion are only beginning to understan…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y program, focusing on being ecumenical as well as interfaith. The news is welcome, coming on the heels of complaints last year by some servicemembers that they were punished for not attending a Christian concert at Fort Eustis in Virginia. An influx of more liberal chaplains may bring more tolerance into the armed services as the Pentagon gets ready to enact the lifting of DADT—but a gander at the coming elections in 2012 reveals the fight over t…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…dle Eastern Women Writers at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah read! I welcome their comments and hope I can respond to some of them. My thanks also to cUrioUs gUUrl and Adis. “Womens’ Double Duty” brought comments on my Facebook page, which got lost due to the way the thread works. That was the one entry when I got the most responses, mostly in the form of thanks and agreement. Sara Farooqi’s comments lead to other comments; and that’s always…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…ation of Muslims and Latinos.” “I am against illegal immigration, but will welcome and aid any illegal that comes to our church…. We have seen many Muslims come to Christ in our community through children’s outreaches, which have been able to provide aid to their families.” When it comes to Christian nationalism, Mattera sees the “nationalistic spirit” of (unnamed) apostolic leaders of both “the far right” and “far left” as problematic—when they p…

Helping International LGBT Families Stay Together

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…have us believe, a Muslim legislator does not automatically equal a Shari’ah crusader hell-bent on bringing stoning into American law. The bill sends a message to those in LGBT communities (including LGBT Muslim communities) that their non-citizen partners are welcome in the U.S. And when a Muslim representative sponsors a bill to allow gay and lesbian immigrants to stay in the U.S. with their families (I can almost hear conservative heads explod…

2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…y a quiet, reflective protest informing the bigot-in-chief that he was not welcome to share Squirrel Hill’s grief. More generally, there was the rise of the Never Again movement, led by survivors of a mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, who offered hope that things might, even for a minute, be different. If we at Religion Dispatches have any wishes for the coming year, it’s that their efforts and the blood of the victims not be wasted. Be b…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…and fixed gender assignments,” Bambara suggested. Such a shift would be a welcome improvement over gender troubles, which resulted from colonial pasts and continued to frustrate black social life. Toni Cade Bambara encouraged the construction of new myths and the cultivation of a revolution within the self as important methods for dismantling both racism and sexism. In the midst of a “by any means necessary” moment like that of the late 1960s, th…