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Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…hem. You alluded to this earlier, but what other variables, in your experience, influence people’s stances on criminal justice? It’s tricky, because I don’t think there’s any one variable that will predict a person’s stance on criminal justice. Obviously race has played a major role in our criminal justice system. It’s not just that American prisons hold disproportionate numbers of African Americans. It’s that this racial composition created publi…

Does God Want Jeremy Lin to Win?

By Jay Michaelson

…ve, despite ample reasons not to do so, in the possibility of human excellence and the importance of achieving it. Second, Tebow and Lin have conducted themselves, in the face of sudden media circuses, with grace. Imagine what it must be like to go from being an ordinary guy sleeping on your brother’s couch to having your every move tweeted and to be followed by paparazzi. Your privacy is instantly gone, any warts you have are instantly magnified,…

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

By Andrew Aghapour

…m Canada. The resulting investigation revealed a shocking lack of transparency and oversight in this government agency. Category Winners. We have a tie! Two podcasts produced equally striking coverage of religion and politics this year, both produced by the same team at This American Life. If you only have an hour to spare want some volatile local politics, explore no further than “A Not-So-Simple Majority,” which documents a school board dispute…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…of “same-sex marriage”. This is being performed after they successfully launched the propaganda in a number of other countries, hence accepted by religious leaders and groups in these countries. We oppose this sexual deviation being called marriage. In Islam marriage can be only exist between a man and a woman in accordance with the teaching of noble religions, under which the terms and conditions have been stipulated. New Zealand & Polynesia: Ang…

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

By Andrea R. Jain

…es, or the Platform for the Movement for Black Lives, (one of the most advanced and inclusive political visions ever articulated), or the Fight for $15 movement that successfully campaigned to raise the minimum wage in many parts of the country. It would mean standing in solidarity with protesters of the Dakota access pipeline calling for a boycott of its investors, including Chase Bank, or government scientists who are “going rogue” by using Twit…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…h’s political affiliation was malleable for the first century of its existence, since World War II, Mormonism has been closely aligned with the Republican right. Several prominent conservative leaders, along with shifting demographic allegiances, placed white Mormons in the Mountain West in the same company with white evangelicals. At many of these moments of cultural strengthening, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was there to serve as a musical coron…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…ax of global warming,” he said in February, calling it more “political science” than science. Teaching the Impossible And what about higher education; the liberal, secular source of so much that Santorum finds disgusting? For those select few who do get an education, rather than working on a road crew, what should be taught in the classroom? “Darwin’s theory of evolution should not be taught as absolute fact in the science classroom,” he has mused…

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

By Caroline Matas

…ory evidence. Even if they realize that they are, well, massaging the evidence to fit a preconceived theory, their claim is: the other side is doing it too—and worse. Organizations like Answers in Genesis equip their believers to see a world not just hostile to their beliefs, but also driven by deeply wicked desires implanted by Satan himself, designed to attack Christians at every turn. Which brings us back to the Covid-19 vaccine debate. The vac…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ng conclusions about Jang, he is “encouraged that many other individuals, including a number of qualified and respected theologians, have similarly vetted related entities and materials, all arriving at different conclusions from those reported in CT,” and he remains confident, he writes, that “truth will be revealed.” Park concludes his article with a paragraph attempting to minimize the “controversy,” referring to it as an issue limited to “a fe…

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

By Sarah Posner

…peddled by the Catholic Bishops and their supporters. Nettina claimed the number of abortions increase with greater access to contraceptives, a trope commonly used to assert that contraception fails and therefore does not decrease the number of unintended pregnancies. This claim echoes statements made by the Bishops themselves, as well as anti-contraception groups, that birth control doesn’t work and is harmful to women’s health. Hagen recommende…