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It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…he Trinity. The Supreme Court let stand the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that World Vision was a religious institution entitled to the same exemption as a church. Federal programs, though, can require compliance with Title VII by organizations receiving federal funding. Although civil rights advocates were critical of the pre-Bush Charitable Choice program because it contained insufficient safeguards against employment discrimination by f…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ked. (A Pakistani was asking me if my city was dangerous?) In their minds, New Yorkers had only to exit their apartments and they would immediately be subjected to random muggings, extortionate kidnappings, spectacularly explosive car chases, or Allah knows what else. Probably their idea of the city had been formed by and remained stuck in Coming to America. For many Americans, the Muslim world is likewise dangerous. It is a place mired in the thi…

Note to the New Pope: Half of the World’s Poor are Women

By Marian Ronan

…st people have already heard more than they need to about the problems the new pope will face: the sex abuse scandal, corruption at the Vatican Bank and throughout the Vatican administration, secularism in the West, reaching out to the burgeoning Church in the Global South. Good luck to him on all counts, I say. For me, though, the kicker, the “line in the sand,” as Archbishop Timothy Dolan would put it: the most important problem facing Pope Berg…

How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’

By Katherine Kelaidis

…aditionally views America as the site of the Garden of Eden and the future New Jerusalem, a new Holy Land. Just as early Christians believed Rome existed to facilitate the spread of the Christian Gospel, many Mormons today believe the United States exists to facilitate the Restoration. Furthermore, many American evangelicals believe American exceptionalism derives from the fact that America has been given a special mission from God. In addition to…

With the Death of One of the Last Three Shakers, an American Religious Tradition Takes a Step Closer to Extinction

By Ed Simon

…wilds of America with the promise of establishing a godly community in the New World. Mother Ann’s experiment became an important chapter in American utopianism, which included groups as varied as the Oneida Community, the Fourierists, the pilgrims at Ephrata and the social experiments of the 1960s. For Mother Ann, the New World was an opportunity to make the world new. As Mother Ann would reflect on her new home in upstate New York, “I saw a larg…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…hat no government can change. At a global gathering of LGBTIQ activists in New York sponsored by OutRight Action International, formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, activists urged the Trump administration to continue support for local human rights activists. Jessica Stern, Outright’s executive director, said that the extent of international progress on LGBT human rights would not have been achieved without…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nd acceptable temperature ranges for different parts of the facility. (The new rules state that each procedure room must be kept between 68 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit at all times, and each patient recovery area must be kept between 70 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. (See section 28-34-134 of the bill, requirements (1) and (2).) By contrast, the Kansas Department of Health licensing survey for other ASCs contains no mention of room tempera…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…urprised to see some unusually accurate takes on white evangelicals in the New York Times lately, so maybe we’re starting to experience a slight shift? Maybe plugging away at media criticism does ultimately have at least a little impact? Still, as I certainly don’t have to tell you, most of what passes for religion “journalism” consists of suspect takes on white Christians, and is chock-full of demonstrably false narratives that simply will not di…

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse

By Stephen Young

…s a minister at a church not deemed evangelical enough. In the Society for New Testament Study Facebook group (note: the group is not sanctioned by the SNTS academic society), various non-scholar members blamed “the sexual revolution” for the supposedly new phenomenon of pedophilia and powerful men enjoying the rape of children. One poster even doubled-down when pressed: “I don’t know what you have against patriarchy. I lived in Asia a good long t…

Do Polls Show American Public Favoring Bishops’ Position on Contraceptive Coverage?

By Sarah Posner

A new New York Times/CBS News poll asked respondents whether “all employers” should have to cover birth control, and whether they should be permitted to opt out for “moral or religious objections.” Fifty-one percent of respondents said that there should be an opt-out for objecting employers, while only 40% did not. If the employer has a “religious affiliation,” those number supporting an “opt-out” jumps to 57%. The framing of the question is new…