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The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause

By Bruce Ledewitz

…l privacy interest in Snyder is a generally applicable law and the new anti-protest funeral provisions in Arizona are generally applicable as well. Smith does not mark the end of religious liberty in America, of course. Since Smith, the Court has held that laws aimed specfically at religious practice will still be held unconstitutional and the court has continued to grant a certain institutional independence in cases solely involving religious in…

Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation

By Wil Gafney

When I heard that Elaine Pagels, world-renowned scholar of New Testament and the history of the Early Church, had written on the Book of Revelation I was intrigued. The conflict of generations—whether WWII, the Civil War, or contemporary culture wars—is seen through the lens of this controversial text, and its language has been perpetually available for those who would demonize their enemies. But what Pagels demonstrates in her newest book, Reve…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…dent Abraham Lincoln, and replacing the word “capitalism” with the phrase “free enterprise.” The curriculum changes are part of the Texas Essential Knowledge standards, which serve as a guideline for publishers and writers hoping to secure the lucrative Texas high school textbook market—the second largest in the country, second only to cash-strapped California. In addition to rewriting the social studies’ standards, the board last year also made s…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…Neon Bible. Rather, Mellencamp follows the easy, just-sittin-around-playing-some-music style, favored by his producer T-Bone Burnett. The aim is for relaxed roots chic. What does it mean when a place like First African comes to serve as a stand-in for authenticity? The answer lies in the myth that undergirds much of the Americana revival. On The Tavis Smiley Show, Mellencamp discussed his experiences while recording at the church: Tavis: What was…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…Think about this—after all the excitement to get started with this once-in-a-lifetime journey, to stop again in the U.S. is the worst kind of interim re-routing. I mean, am I on my way? Are we there yet? But the Charles de Gaulle airport, which is the transit spot to Jeddah—now that is really something. First of all, there will be other pilgrims there and the ihram has to be taken up, either here at the airport or on the plane itself. When we lea…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…ing on is not because of the more popularized polls, but because the better-quality academic surveys also show the same thing and indeed have been showing the same thing for a while. Then the question is, “What exactly is going on?” And there appear to be several conclusions. One is that a number of the people who are categorized as Nones still claim to believe in God. Many of them occasionally attend religious services; hardly any of them identif…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…ermines whether a researcher believes the earth is six thousand or four-and-a-half billion years old. Who can be sure, anyway? Ham encourages students to ask their teachers “Were you there?” when those teachers suggest that 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 M…

Open Letter to Pastor Judah Smith on “Inclusion”: Just for Immigrants, or LGBTQ Too?

By George Mekhail

…lip from Part 2 of your “Church Like Home” series, archived below: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNwp8xyBXAh/ When I watched it my knee-jerk response was excitement; Finally, a popular mainstream pastor is talking about getting rid of exclusion, and he’s local! This is huge! My friend, who recently experienced the painful ramifications of church exclusion, seemed hopeful that this tweet meant what he thought it meant: that The City Church was declar…

A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…Westboro Baptists themselves have noted that the law will prevent counter-protesters, including the human walls, zombies, and motorcycle brigades that have cropped us as grassroots responses to the church’s pickets. The enforcement of a law prohibiting “disruptions” without regard to content seems impossible—and, really, that isn’t the law’s goal. The goal is to silence Westboro Baptists, and that targeted effort is what may doom the law. Still,…

Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

By Chrissy Stroop

…at all a bad thing if, alongside the full recognition of the dignity and equality of non-believers, the Democratic Party embraces leaders who find personal meaning in passages of the Bible associated with social justice Christianity, in sharp contrast to the Christian Right’s ugly and vicious politics toward minorities, women, members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and the poor, which right-wing Christians support with their own biblical int…