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Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ligious talk will soften into November. I think it will still be there. If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he continually wants to sidestep the religious talk and he has good reason for doing that. People don’t understand Mormonism. Most American Protestants and Catholics have a fundamental distrust or uncertainty about Mormonism, so he wants to play it down. If he brings on a vice presidential candidate like (Virginia governor) Bob McDonnell, there’s…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church in America, and “0ther evangelical denominations and many nondenominational congregations.” Sixty-two million Americans fall into this demographic, two million more than in 2007, according to the Pew Survey. The Pew report notes, though, that researchers sought to identify evangelicals still another way (other than denominationally). They asked, “Would you describe yourself as a born-again or evangelical Christi…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…e Alabama GOP primary—believe the president is a Muslim. The numbers are similar in Mississippi, where 70% of likely GOP voters identified as evangelical. Like in Alabama, where only 25% identified as tea partiers, only 24% of Mississippi voters identified as tea partiers. Again, the candidates are splitting the evangelical vote with Gingrich showing a slight advantage with 33% to Romney’s 28%, and Santorum’s 29%. Of all the respondents, only 12%…

For Buddhism, Science is Not a Killer of Religion

By Paul Wallace

…s about seeing the world as it really is. These thoughts passed through my mind as I sat watching the Dalai Lama talk and smile. it occurred to me how easy the science-religion reconciliation is for him, for his fellow Buddhists, and, in a sense, for myself. It is easy because of the way Buddhists view the world and not because they are able to do any particular mental gymnastics. The Buddhist approach to the science-faith question is not the tort…

Muslims in America, Fifty Years Later: New Poll Shows Pride and Optimism In the Face of Bias

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…al U.S. population. The growth of the Muslim community is largely due to immigration. In 1965, the Immigration and Naturalization Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty reformed the racist system of immigration that largely prohibited immigrants from countries perceived as non-white. Millions of non-white people have immigrated to the United States since then, and perhaps two million of them have been Muslim….

Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…t but only restitution, God’s view of crime is that the act of crime is committed, not by a professional criminal, but a weaker man, who must restore the stolen goods plus at least an equal amount, the potentially habitual criminal is to be executed as soon as he gives plain evidence of this fact (Deuteronomy 21:18-21 – see also Proverbs 30:17).. …In Deuteronomy 19:21, the general law of justice is stated: the punishment must fit the crime; there…

Forget Right or Wrong

By Elizabeth Drescher

…life. A publicly recognized, government sponsored observation of the complex religious and non-religious American landscape that doesn’t invite rigid polarization might well be something for which we could all give thanks… in whatever way each of us might do that….

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Church, however different their interpretations of scripture and tradition might be. Diminishing the sacramental role of baptism, which is the practical if not doctrinal effect of open communion, would significantly distinguish the Episcopal Church among most mainline Protestant denominations. As with other controversial—for some, “prophetic”—actions in the denomination, it is impossible to know whether opening communion would encourage newcomers…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…s, even the mention of Hannibal Lecter—is always done by Trump in the proximity of immigration. So they’re literally cannibals, right? That’s the most extreme form of othering and subhumanizing another group. These things all hang together. I think that’s why immigration is the thing that Trump is always pivoting to, because it’s always the best tool in his toolbox to drive his authoritarian agenda forward. And to the extent that anyone can tell,…

What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape

By Richard Flory

…igion that really doesn’t fit what is going on in real world. Rather than imposing a category that forces a multi-dimensional reality into a dichotomous measure of religious or not, or thinking about religion as a purely numbers game of what group has the most adherents, we might shift our attention to focus on how religion, values, relationships and meaning really operate in the lives of individuals and communities—religious or not….