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A Question for Hobby Lobby Supporters…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…roughout the coverage of this case. It doesn’t get to the legal and constitutional matters, but to the shape of your theological conviction. Here’s my question: If it violates your religious convictions to compensate your employees with an insurance plan that might be used for contraception or abortion, how does it NOT violate your religious convictions to compensate your employees in US dollars that might be used for contraception or abortion? Sh…

Grassroots Faith: The Lessons of The Social Gospel

By Christopher H. Evans

…conomic interests of the time. This engagement led the movement to raise a number of questions about its mission. For example, was the social gospel’s primary objective to cast a wide ideological net to create a broad coalition of secular and religious leaders, or was it to identify itself with specific economic and political policies? Common historical wisdom holds that the social gospel broke apart at the end of World War I, a victim of both a n…

New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?

By Noah Berlatsky

…don’t deal with a head cold by chopping off your nose. Or, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, “Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.” Leap of Faith is a film made from a Christian perspective with unity as a goal, so it never really asks why homophobia is so central to the church for so many, or whether that homophobia calls into question the value of Christian unity. It’s true that Christian…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…religion industrial complex,” as Digby calls it, the services of the small number of political strategists who peddled the Democrats-need-to-talk-more-about-religion theory are apparently no longer wanted by the Democratic Party. Never mind whether Democrats finally got good at “talking about their religion,” as if that were the only measure of whether a religious person would want to vote for them. Religious people think about policy, too, and su…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…ic couples were saying privately: the rhythm method not only didn’t work, but put extraordinary strain on otherwise happy marriages. “A man and a wife may follow all the current methods for predicting the time of ovulation, they may be armed with an arsenal of slide rules, thermometers, glucose tests, they may abstain for the proscribed period with dogged perseverance, and they may still find that the method has failed. The rhythm method keeps cou…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…nstitution. The 2010 Mexican census reported only around 200,000 members, but that number may well be low (the Mormon church in Mexico has argued that the religious count was inaccurate). Independent scholarly estimates for LLDM’s worldwide population range as high as seven million. Still: LLDM is big. And it’s not easy to classify the church that has emerged. In terms of theology and ritual, its flavor is firmly pentecostal and charismatic: Churc…

How Religion Shapes (or Doesn’t) Our Views on Public Issues

By Daniel Schultz

…tant in determining attitudes toward gays and lesbians, they might agree. But ask about same-sex marriage, and the answer you might receive would be “that’s a matter for civil jurisdiction, not the church.” The environment is almost a mirror image: only 22% of those who oppose tougher regulations cite religion as their most important reason. That says to me at least that their leaders have defined the environment out of the realm of faithful conce…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…ay they support some legal protections for gay couples, but sad that the truth about the amendment couldn’t break through the disinformation that the amendment was all about marriage. Another bright spot was the vocal opposition to the amendment by Rev. Dr. William Barber, head of the state’s NAACP chapter, who vigorously opposed the effort to write discrimination into the constitution even thought the NAACP does not have an official position on m…

‘It’s a Gay Problem,’ and Other Myths From the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis

By Joelle Casteix

…lying that what happened to them was less abhorrent and caused less pain. But let’s get down to the truth: Whether a 15-year-old or an 8-year-old is sexually abused, they are both victims of a horrific crime. Sanitizing the crime and minimizing victims by saying their abuse “wasn’t as bad” because one particular victim is more physically developed than another—even though two victims may be the exact same age and emotional maturity—is reprehensibl…

Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC

By Frederick Clarkson

…s what he meant when he decreed that Kamala Harris will not only be voted out, but “cast out.” He drew on the biblical story of Jezebel to suggest Harris merits such treatment (something we’ll get into shortly). But first let’s note that the New Apostolic Reformation, the largest religious movement in recent American history, has unabashed, undemocratic, and well documented political aspirations. While that alone is not unusual, what is important…