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A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…important work. Among them is Joanna Brooks, who served as the Mormon panelist at the conference. She has been an advocate for LGBTQ equality and acceptance among Mormons and more broadly (in fact, she was featured earlier this year in The Advocate’s list of “10 Pro-LGBTQ Religious Women You Should Know”), and I am glad for her work. We may not agree on certain issues, including whether or not there is a God, but she has my support. Her activism,…

Recounting (Again)
The Role of American Religious Activists in Uganda Anti-Gay Violence

By Sarah Posner

…Uganda” over the bill, I asked him how the U.N. and other “lobbyists” were promoting homosexuality in Uganda; not surprisingly, he didn’t have an answer. He claimed that the pastors there told him “a story about how it swept into — the agenda promotion, of the agenda, and now the actual proliferation of the homosexual activity sweeping into the boarding schools of that nation. I don’t know much of the details so I can’t take responsibility for wha…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…now that God doesn’t call me to do a specific thing, God hasn’t given me a list, a Ten Commandments, if you will, of things to act on the first day. It’s not what Kelly asked, it contradicts what he’s said before, and he then proceeded to suggest that God told him to bust the teachers’ unions in Wisconsin, but other than that, it was testimony fit for a Baptist Sunday School. Rubio talked about the VA, and Carson apparently thinks the “bully pulpi…

Does Record Number of Religious “Nones” Mean Decline of Religiosity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Richard Dawkins or Bill Maher as religiously anti-religious Atheist evangelists, I have to suspect that the 7% of religious among the “Atheist/Agnostic” group, along with the 34% of their cohort who see themselves as “spiritual but not religious,” might be on the more Agnostic end of the spectrum. Likewise, it’s hard to know, in the end, what to make of what seems a startling set of numbers related to “belief in God or a Universal Spirit.” Here,…

Rum and Gunpowder: How to Take Out a Vodou Doll

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…aribbean religion, I cannot tell you how many times I get calls from journalists wanting me to denounce Vodou, describe it as satanic, list it as a possible explanation for a case of torture or ritual death. When I teach students about Vodou they are intrigued and often fearful; field trips to Vodou house temples evoke an excitement that no visit to a church ever provokes. When I teach Catholicism, I do not get inundated with emails from undergrad…

Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History

By Joanna Brooks

…conducted by the Open Stories Foundation, thorny historical issues top the list of reasons why Mormons leave. These issues include the disputed origins of The Pearl of Great Price, a book of Mormon scripture, the historic practice of polygamy by Joseph Smith and other early Mormon leaders, and the Church’s 130-year ban on full participation by people of African descent. Controversial issues like these are not addressed in official church materials…

A Plot to Kill God

By Paul Froese

…rican culture and politics. Look for it from Oxford University Press in the summer of 2009. Visit our RDBook page for a complete list of our interviews with authors……

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…n two million copies, and it spent months on the New York Times bestseller list. By my friends’ telling, it’s practically required reading for anyone trying to live in a cramped New York apartment. There’s something spiritually satisfying about the act of pruning. Who hasn’t dreamed of simplifying their life, committing to minimalism, and limiting their possessions to the bare necessities? Many religious and philosophical traditions contain strain…

The Legacy of Bush, Gambler of Other People’s Fortunes, Is Still With Us

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…. He even wrote a novella—delicious irony that it is, it was written at a blistering pace in order to pay off a debt—that is among the most sophisticated of all modern analyses of the power of gambling across all classes. It bears close reading. The story evolved slowly in his mind over long years of reflection at the roulette wheel, a game he insisted was tailor made for Russians. In its final form it is a marvelous mingle-mangle of mad passion,…

Jeremiah Wright for President?

By Ira Chernus

…he whipping boy of many liberal, as well as nearly all conservative, journalists. (Three headlines from the centrist and mightily influential Washington Post Web site: “Wright Stirs Race Controversy,” “Wright Could Spell Doom for Obama,” “Obama’s Latest Test in a Long Line.”) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. thundered from the pulpit against the white American penchant for turning difference into deficiency and denying the value of diversity. H…