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How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…e remarkable and persistent magazine editor, Sarah Josepha Hale, also from New England. When New Englanders participated in the western expansion of settlements, they frequently campaigned to continue the thanksgiving tradition in their new locations. Hale became their most prominent national advocate, serving as the editor (she preferred “editress”) of Godey’s Ladies Book, the most widely read magazine of its time in the United States. Described…

Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…rce by Morozov and others) combines with Randian objectivism to usher in a new era of Pax Americana—with the silicon chip as the golden calf at the altar of modernity. To wit, liberals are now some of the most egregious proponents of indefinite detention, the military police state, warrantless assassination, and the demonization of 1.8 billion Muslims—the greatest stumbling block to the realization of the technocratic dream. And in this era of a p…

The Sacramental American Day of Thanks

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ng question for the Bellah thesis about the US Civil Religion is whether a new century and this new war, provide the US civil religion with a new opportunity for growth, adaptation and change. And while the prophetic mode has been rather muted under the leadership of the Bush team, it will be fascinating to see how a new administration under the aegis of a very different kind of leader, will deploy the quasi-religious rhetoric of the American civi…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…President Jones was quoted using language reminiscent of Franklin: We’re a New York City institution. And we have a New York City-sized problem. But fortunately we also have a New York City-sized answer. God is calling us to have another 100 years, and the air rights are the answer to that call. Yes, indeed, a call is being answered. But which God has given the call? What’s happening at Union is a microcosm of a broader reality: poor people of col…

Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch

By Konstantin Petrenko

…cally liberal human rights organizations also will not find an ally in the new Patriarch. In a recent interview, Kirill criticized the Western interpretation of human rights that allows for what he sees as immoral behavior. “Movements are emerging that support the right to homosexual marriage, drug use, prostitution, and euthanasia. We cannot allow for democracy in our society to be measured by such criteria,” he said. In recent years, Orthodox gr…

Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

By Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst

…entic” religion and popular, secular practice. In Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body, journalist Jason Kelly traces the connections between money and fitness culture. He recently spoke with The Cubit about running highs, meditation apps, and the inherent difficulty of selling authenticity. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You argue that Millennials treat fitness—and especially group fitness classes—as an al…

The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism

By Jill Hicks-Keeton

…anti-patriarchal. Barr reinterprets, for example, the so-called “household codes” in the New Testament, which uphold patriarchal order of man over wife (and master over enslaved), by attributing their oppressive hierarchies not to Jesus-followers but to the “fallen” world around them. “The early church,” she writes, “was trying to make sense of its place in both a Jewish and Roman world, and much of those worlds bled through into the church’s stor…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng homophobia. The pope’s visit came shortly after the parliament passed a new law that gives the government vast new powers to shut down community organizations for a variety of reasons. One clause would require charities to “not engage in any activity which is … contrary to the dignity of the people of Uganda”, which proponents fear could be used to clamp down on groups working to help LGBT people in Uganda. It would also allow groups to be disb…

Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

By Sarah Posner

…roviders describes these accommodations as “inadequate,” and adds that the new proposed requirements may violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. There’s a history here: when the Obama administration declined to renew a USCCB contract to serve trafficking victims because the USCCB objected to a contractual requirement to refer victims to a full range of reproductive health services, Republicans held hearings to gin up claims the administrati…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…uld be considered nonsectarian. The results of the study, presented in the new report Reading, Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12, were decidedly mixed. On the one hand, eleven school districts did quite well, offering courses that were careful not to promote one religious perspective over all others, and which encouraged critical thinking, careful communication skills, and creativity. Twenty-eight districts had co…