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Should Evangelical Trump Critics Leave The Movement? Who Cares?

By Daniel Schultz

…women in ministry, acceptance of gays and lesbians, and other issues. “Not-really” because SBC has a congregational polity, which means that if you belong to a congregation that’s affiliated, so are you. Since Carter hasn’t given up membership in his home church, he’s a Southern Baptist, despite anything he might say to the contrary. The point here is less technical than it might seem. If Carter—and other leaders like him, both lay and clergy—aren…

Updated: Was Adnan Syed Falsely Accused? RD’s Live-Tweet of Serial, the Final Episode

By Andrew Aghapour and Hussein Rashid

…to the podcast, I’m thinking more and more race and religion intersect in really interesting ways. Don is as likely a suspect as Adnan in the beginning. Yet, he’s not really part of the investigation so far, and I have to believe Sarah is reflecting the actual police work. White people are automatically excused and believed, and every stereotype could be thrown at Adnan, and made-up information is easily admissible. There’s an interesting article…

How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy

By David Webster

…ivalent, as valid perspectives on an unsayable ultimate reality, is not to really take any of them seriously. It promotes a shallow, surface approach, whereby the work of discrimination, of testing claims against each other, and our experience in the light of method, is cast aside in favour of a lazy, bargain-basement-postmodernist relativism. Selfish—because the ‘inner-turn’ drives us away from concerns with the material; so much so that being pr…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

On January 30, 2014, Newseek published a 3,100 word article entitled “When the Saints Go Marching Out” about the difficulties of leaving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I read it and liked it—I even tweeted the author, Hannah Miet, and told her so. I thought it provided relatively balanced, insightful coverage of a few of the many, many challenges post-Mormons face when they outgrow their Mormon beliefs and community, including:…

Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers

By Eric Reitan

…e, is a visual effect produced by refraction on the camera lens. It isn’t “really there,” but of course it’s produced by things that are “really there” (the sun and the camera lens). In any event, the symbolic resonance of the image fits well with the themes I’m exploring in the book, and so I’m very happy with it. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? Marilyn McCord Adams’ Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christo…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries the recent student shut-down of controversial author Charles Murray’s talk at Middlebury College earlier this month. But it was the headline that grabbed our attention: “Is Intersectionality a Religion?” Short answer: no. While Sullivan’s grouchy and dismissive post isn’t likely to knock the earth off its orbit or threaten civilization itself, in the pa…

So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

By Dan Mathewson

… As a 2007 Pew Survey shows, in presidential elections, being a Muslim is really, really bad, while being (the right kind of) Christian is, unsurprisingly, quite good. Congressional races like Linda McMahon’s, however, are obviously not the same as presidential races, as the election of the first Muslim congressman demonstrated back in 2006. But candidates at any level need to hold the “right” views about religious matters—“right” being defined b…

Film Follows Teen Exiles from Polygamous Sect

By Becky Garrison

…tween objectivity and being a human being. There were times when we became really ingrained in their lives. These kids looked to us almost as surrogate parents in a lot of ways. JM: The social workers were asking us to help them. So we became sort of mediators between the social workers and the kids. And there were times when the law was not doing its job. After, say, five attempted escapes by a 14-year-old girl who was about to get married and no…

Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem

By Daniel Albert Joslyn

…named Doug picked a dozen roses for his grandmother, for which he gained a number of points. In 2009, another man named Doug also gave his grandmother a dozen roses, but actually lost points for doing so, precisely because in doing so, he supported global warming and the exploitation of labor on the other side of the world. Follow the money Yet, even though much of the characters’ motivations and the show’s driving argument for reform rests upon t…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…ut our ears to everything he has to say. In their view he’s just a really, really bad actor, guilty of unspeakable bigotry and thus unworthy of any serious attention. To their credit, TNR’s editors allow that, in addition to the old Ron Paul bigotry, it’s the current Ron Paul isolationism they really wish to anathematize. That’s good of them, I suppose. But what’s not so great is the “gotcha!” card they play with the old bigotry. They mean for it…