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

By Andrea R. Jain

…evidence suggests the unaffiliated are not only on the 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…

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era

By Benjamin E. Park

…new president. But there were moments in the last year when it seemed the Mormon community might take a stand against Trump’s presidency. When the candidate proposed a ban on Muslim immigration, the LDS Newsroom released a statement reaffirming its support for a plural society. And a month before the election, several prominent Mormon politicians revoked their endorsement of his candidacy, the Church-owned newspaper requested that he step down fr…

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

…gs of eggheads with their own egghead agendas. Glenn Beck, one of Barton’s most enthusiastic promoters, can hardly utter the word “professor” without sneering and making air quotes with his fingers. Many evangelicals, skeptical that a PhD after a name gives any reasonable authority, have come to sympathize with and even celebrate Fox News’ most well-known anti-intellectual Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly, who pitted his understanding of science against th…

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

By Caroline Matas

…st likely to indicate outright refusal to take a Covid-19 vaccine, while a number of other studies have also found that number hovering close to 25 percent. Journalists and academics alike have attempted to make sense of this discrepancy, pointing to existential fear, anti-intellectualism, and Christian nationalism as potential influences on American evangelicals’ vaccine antipathy. As a scholar of American evangelicalism and media, I am inclined…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…for Christians. In addition to drawing further ties between Jang and Rev. Moon, who famously declared himself the messiah, this recent controversy hits close to home for evangelicals because of Jang’s ties to many parachurch organizations with seemingly orthodox beliefs. While Olsen and Smith are careful to cite sources who both confirm and deny that members are led to believe that Jang is the second coming of Christ, the article leaves the reade…

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

By Sarah Posner

…kid of the ’60s” she wasn’t always opposed to contraception, but that “the more we know, the more know how bad it is.” Now she “knows” that the pill, “makes women more like men. Free to have affairs with no consequences.” Its harms, she insisted, included creating a “womb that is unwelcoming,” and diverting women from “other ways” of avoiding pregnancy, such as “chastity” or “self-control.” “It’s a losing battle to go against God,” said Cote’s fri…

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

By Patricia Miller

…ed adoption agencies to refuse to provide services to LGBT couples or individuals. The bishops also would love any GOP health reform plan to include a wide-ranging “conscience” clause that would allow health care providers to refuse to provide any service for moral or religious reasons, which could be used to deny services to LGBT patients or single mothers. When it comes to the Trump administration, the bishops have apparently decided to hold the…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…oss at the polls, 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…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…cross, the empty tomb, the via dolorosa. I am not always sure I want to be numbered among Christians; I know there are a number of Christians who aren’t so sure I should be so numbered. My examination occurs alongside my spouse’s examination. She is an ordained Baptist minister who with unspeakable grace regularly braves misogynistic condescension: the assumption among even thoughtful, well-meaning people that her spouse possesses the professional…

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: America’s Enduring Fascination with the Ten Commandments

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

…e, I’m tempted to call on your readers for suggestions, much as the filmmaker, Cecil B. DeMille, years before, had called on movie-goers to participate in a contest to come up with the most compelling answer to the question: “What is the most vital modern problem suitable for picturizing?” Contestants were told to “boil down your hunch into the fewest possible words.” And then “reboil.” Within the space of two months, thirty thousand ideas awaited…