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Now That ‘Serial’ is Over: 2014’s Best Podcasts about Religion

By Andrew Aghapour

…the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois to Ramadan to The Science of Attention. Smart, generous, and empathetic, Tippett has fostered some of the best conversations that this medium has to offer. For insight into the “sacred space” of the interview booth, check out her conversation with StoryCorps founder David Isay. Then go to the episodes page and take your pick. You can’t go wrong. Category Three: Secular Intersections There is no clean divide between re…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…Al-Azhar University in Cairo, who made his first visit to Jakarta this week, to, in the words of the Jakarta Post, “further enhance cooperation with Indonesia in promoting moderate Islam.” From the Imam’s interview: This major propaganda is orchestrated by various international institutions and organizations using all kinds of methods and instruments such as the mass media and seminars, involving a number of celebrated figures and other possible m…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…rise, but are also more likely to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, and, more significantly, that they are more liberal on social and political issues. When it comes to the spiritual people, this is not really surprising. Although popular spiritualities are not monolithic, are fraught with divergence and debate, and have even been shown (see RD here, here, and here) at times to serve certain neoliberal, conservative, or nationalist agenda…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…nacle Choir was there to serve as a musical coronation. It was only fitting, then, that at Ronald Reagan’s inauguration—the event seen as the culmination of the religious right’s coalition—the new president dubbed the Mormon Tabernacle Choir “America’s Choir.” The moment seemed to signify the LDS church’s move from the periphery to the mainstream. But that trajectory toward assimilation was tested in recent years. Mitt Romney’s presidential run st…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…the earth is very old, or that dinosaurs predated humans. As Ham would say, God, of course, was there and told Moses what happened “in the beginning.” That’s the “answer.” Professionally constructed dioramas in Ham’s Creation Museum show dinosaurs looking over Eve’s shoulder. Similar knowledge denial occurs on questions of gender roles and human sexuality. Organizations like James Dobson’s Focus on the Family claim that homosexuality is an inhere…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…sent processes of natural selection are “too small and too slow” to explain, say, how a single pair of the dog “kind” spun out into wolves and Pomeranians in the course of just a few thousand years. Rather than allowing this to put their conclusions into question, they introduce a miracle—God must have “provided organisms with special tools to change rapidly,” tools that these animals apparently no longer possess. While this view is “about” scienc…

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…off another week and making it riskier and more expensive to perform. Quinn, too, worries about how women “are disparaged as they go into clinics. They’re prayed at that God is not supporting this. This is nonsense.” The growing number of crisis pregnancy centers are “applying the principle that women should not enjoy sex, that women are on a pedestal like the blessed mother.” For the doctor, her faith is “an important part of my life I think it…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…ing diseases and not to … preventing birth.” But, as New York Times reports, under Trump a number of anti-contraception activists have been given prominent roles in the administration. They are moving not just to finalize a rule that would allow any entity to opt-out of the contraceptive mandate for any reason, which has long been on the bishops’ wish list, but have a history of attacking contraception in general. Katy Talento, who is now a White…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…ic Ellicott City, which is composed largely of a few narrow blocks of cafes, bars, shops, and a railroad museum, was an oddity. Some driving by honked and yelled “Obama rocks,” while others walked by incredulously or registered approval of President Obama. Cummings’ district includes Baltimore and this stretch of Howard County south of the city, which is less urban and more white. But while Maryland is a heavily Democratic state (as is Cummings’ d…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…s, equality advocates are not going to curl up in a ball. Tomorrow morning, more than 40 couples taking part in the WE DO campaign are reportedly planning to apply for marriage licenses in eight counties, accompanied by supportive clergy, elected officials, family, and friends. In each community, the WE DO event will also include a Prayer Service for Reconciliation led by clergy. In select counties, couples and allies will conduct a sit-in at the…