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Young Imam Reality Show, Debating Secularism, and More

By Michael J. Altman

…g week for religion in the Supreme Court. First, the court struck down the Chicago hand gun ban. Religious? Of course. In gun culture, guns are invested with all sorts of sacred American significance: individuality, liberty, power. More obviously, the court ruled that the Hastings College of Law did not violate the First Amendment when it withdrew funding from the Christian Legal Society. At The Atlantic, Wendy Kaminer argued that “private religio…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…uals currently can sponsor their undocumented spouses for citizenship, thousands of gay and lesbian couples face the possibility of their families being separated unless the UAFA becomes law. That Schumer had to plead with anti-LGBT rights conservatives to even bring Republicans to the table points not only to the dysfunction of the Senate (where the majority party needs a supermajority to get anything done), but also to the dysfunctional way Demo…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…ligion Foundation is trying to keep churches empty, however, through their Chicago bus advertisements encouraging the Windy City’s faithful to sleep in on Sunday mornings. She wasn’t driving a bus, but a dispute over a traffic ticket involving a veiled woman in France has intensified controversy over French anti-veil legislation. Regardless of whether or not you get the religion of soccer, seminarians in Rome are quite happy to put on a pair of cl…

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…cepting this idea.” A peer-reviewed study by the University of Illinois at Chicago from January 2009 of US-based scientists showed that of scientists most specialized and knowledgeable with regard to climate change (those who listed climate science as their area of expertise, and who also have published more than 50 percent of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change) 96.2 percent answered ‘risen’ to the question, “When c…

Ugandan Landslide a Message from God?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ray over the earthquake in Chile calling it a “warning” during a speech in Chicago: “It’s not an accident that a great earthquake took place in Chile,” Farrakhan, 76, said an hour into his three-hour address. “It was a precipitate of what I have to tell you today of what’s coming to America. You will not escape.” “I will speak to the kings and rulers of the world. I will speak to the pope and the religious leaders because you have to know that you…

Romney and the Jews

By Sarah Posner

…s strongly disapprove of his selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate. Here’s the clip about Romney and the Jewish vote: We also discussed Michele Bachmann’s Yom Kippur visit to a Chicago synagogue, why the AJC poll didn’t ask about Jews’ attitudes toward the occupation and more. You can watch the whole thing here. …

Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper’s and Simon Critchley

By Linell Cady

…and cultural formations, respectful but distant. Obama’s decision to join Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ was driven by his growing recognition of the importance of a shared community of faith, a social vehicle to give it some structure and public expression. Despite this commitment, Critchley senses a continued aloofness that suggests he has not really solved his mother’s dilemma and its attendant “sense of loneliness, doubt, and aband…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…y of Religion-Society of Biblical Literature (AAR-SBL) national meeting in Chicago last month. If the experience of others was like mine, those of us with some years on the scene came away deeply dissatisfied. It wasn’t just the anxiety of those in the cattle call for the meat…er…job market. No, nor the ever larger, anonymous mob all packed into the neo-Brutalist McCormick Place convention center. (Overheard: “If Dante’s inferno had had an aircraf…

Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking

By Patricia Miller

…sponse to Trump’s executive order, just a little more than a week after he sanctified his inauguration with his presence, Dolan gave the ultimate politician’s response that he hadn’t had time to review it yet, but at “first blush, is causes us some apprehension.” This isn’t surprising coming from Dolan, who has long sought to conflate the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries like Syria and Pakistan with Catholic hospitals being r…

Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015

By Peter Laarman

…shootings in places like the west side of Baltimore and the south side of Chicago? 6. Toilets. “You can’t go in there!” riles up the righteous in Houston. But, on the other hand, hundreds of congregations are doing small group study on what “trans” means, and many of the faithful merely shrug at the idea of queer Scoutmasters, for God’s sake. Sexual difference seems to be much less frightening to ever larger swathes of American religious. 7. Reli…