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Wiccan Prayer in Iowa House Highlights Religious Freedom Problem

By Joseph Laycock

…“good” and “bad” religions (what Leonard Primiano called a “two-tiered model of religion”). A recent example is the fracas that occurred last year when The Satanic Temple offered to re-enact a black mass as part of a Harvard cultural studies club. The Temple’s multicultural performance was quickly reinterpreted as “hate speech” and the event was cancelled. While Harvard prides itself on being diverse and inclusive, the Temple ran afoul of the und…

Is America Willing to Be Freed from Its Demons?

By Willie James Jennings

…d now a real war beckons us.” Our way forward? Exhaustion. The only way to free ourselves of these demons is to reach utter exhaustion, and come to the point where the money we make through race and violence is less compelling than the desire for life together, life truly joined in common hope of flourishing. Sadly, I don’t believe we have reached the point of exhaustion yet. But make no mistake, we are headed for exhaustion. We have been in a rac…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

…ndeed, Oppenheimer’s frustrations have profound significance. They effectively would eliminate any institution claiming to be “religious” from claiming any distinctive rights or obligations: bye-bye to the establishment and free-exercise clauses of the Constitution, etc. They might as well protect us from the “establishment” of widget and the “free exercise” thereof. Both are meaningless, since neither “widget” nor “religion” point to anything spe…

Paul Ryan Is Like Jesus, But It’s Not What You Think

By Sarah Posner

…vidualist and anti-government vision and the policies they inform are themselves legitimately Catholic. They are not.” Heritage Action and Americans for Prosperity are opposed to the deal, although it looks like Republicans might not roll over for them this time. And the deal doesn’t, by any stretch, address countless aspects of glaring economic inequality; most notably, it does nothing to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed….

Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?

By Ira Chernus

…s in policy open up room for a discussion of deeper changes in the myth itself? In Israel, the widespread approval of Netanyahu’s speech suggests that the myth remains healthy (though there is still, as there has always been, a significant minority who challenge it). It’s here in the United States—where Jewish community support is vital to keep all those dollars flowing to Israel—that the myth is increasingly called into question. Meet the New Myt…

Driscoll Makes Plagiarism Complaint Disappear

By Evan Derkacz

…een known to take “suggestions” from the work of others, right?) After Rachel Held Evans had criticized an evangelical conference for the gender disparity in its speakers she was criticized, not because she was wrong, but because she dared to point it out publicly: Paul Pastor had criticized Evans for noticing, then asked his readers to join him in a prayer for Christian unity…Pastor draws on a shared value of healthy public speech to distract att…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ur public schools for good, our schools must have been idyllic places, largely free from the type and extent of violence we see today. Sure, there were the occasional schoolyard fights, but those are a far cry from the premeditated, high-fatality attacks that are seemingly becoming all too common these days. God was allowed in our schools, and the safety of our kids was proof of God’s favor. The problem is that gun violence has been a feature of s…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…g experience, better integration with social media, peace on earth. (We’ll be updating via our newsletter, here.) It’s our birthday, but it’s you who deserve the party (and the gluten-free, kosher, vegan, cruelty-free cake). Thank you for reading, for writing, and for your thoughtful and dynamic engagement with the ever-evolving question of religion in public life and culture. Yours, The Eds. …

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…emphasize that freedom is often hard-won. The final chapter is now named “Free.” How do you feel about the cover? Initially, I resisted having my face on the cover of the book. When the publishers presented the idea to me, I gave them a list of all the memoirs without the author’s face on the cover. They gave me a comparable list of memoirs that have the author’s face on the cover. Between the Atlanta-based photographer Anne Simone and cover desi…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…an: As an activist in the LGBT Muslim community, I’m witnessing an unparalleled level of cooperation among activist and advocacy groups. Rather than remaining siloed as a special interest group, we’re taking steps to support and collaborate with organizations that share our values, such as those working for racial justice, economic justice, and immigrant rights. Ultimately, we cannot shift politics or popular opinion alone. We can only change the…