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Ban on Female Genital Cutting in Somaliland is Progress, But Success Relies on Working with Religious Leaders

By Chelsea Garbell

…a comprehensive solution. An estimated 98 percent of women 15 to 49 in the republic have undergone the procedure. Predating Christianity and Islam, FGC is a deeply entrenched cultural practice reinforced by economic, political, and social structures across the Middle East and North Africa, effecting 200 million women worldwide. The earliest known reference to FGC was in the 5th century BCE writing of Herodotus, and FGC was also practiced in 19th c…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…ing for Religion News Service. As Sarah Jones recently reported in the New Republic, the 84-year-old wire service has been undergoing what many insiders see as a “spectacular implosion,” with editor Jerome Socolosky being fired in an email by publisher Tom Gallagher, and veteran reporters Kimberly Winston and Lauren Markoe resigning soon thereafter. In the letter, Merritt wrote that his departure was due to “irreconcilable differences” between Mer…

No End in Sight: White Evangelicals Stick with Trump’s White Nationalist GOP

By Peter Laarman

…y changing and how younger white evangelicals will yet rise up to save the Republic. Exit polls thus far show more of the same, with white evangelicals overwhelmingly supporting House Republicans over Democrats, 75 percent to 22 percent. I spend a lot of time absorbed in 19th century U.S. history, and (yes) I do experience a slight sectarian thrill whenever I read of instances of Bible-thumping white Christians standing up boldly against race and…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…er partner in this twinned pair of national origins was the sale of twenty Africans by Dutch slave traders to the English colonists at Jamestown a year before the Pilgrims would land at Plymouth. For the New England abolitionists, the pilgrims were to be contrasted with their southern countrymen in what constituted a sort of Paradise Lost of American beginnings. The south may be older, but it was founded on a legacy of slavery as opposed to the tr…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…angelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, the September publication of which should be placed alongside the release of the Boy Erased film adaptation of Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir about “ex-gay” therapy as major exvangelical phenomena of the year. In addition to Klein, “Deconstructing My Religion” features me, Blake Chastain, and Emily Joy, as well as scholarly commentary from Julie Ingersoll. 1) Exvangelic…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…and sexist largely in their favor and were designed at the founding of the Republic to afford them with unearned power. Absent from their declaration is any commitment to participate in the tedious task of using their white cisgendered privilege to dismantle these same social structures. Racial discrimination is more than a bias disposition; it’s more than simply calling me a “spic.” Racial discrimination also includes the political pronouncements…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n.” After the pleasantries, Watkinson moved to fearmongering, “What if our Republic were now shattered beyond reconstruction?” Posterity would look to our coinage and think “that we were a heathen nation.” Watkinson proposed removing that heathen, “the Goddess of Liberty,” and adding a new, godly motto, something like, “God, liberty, law.” With the sense of entitlement typical of a religious majoritarian, Watkinson claimed that “no possible citize…

The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story

By Peter Laarman

…stallizes a certain way of thinking about a path forward for this troubled republic. Leonhardt is certainly not alone in taking this line; he merely drives it home more forcefully than others. The gist is that Donald J. Trump embodies everything that’s threatening to this essentially good and benign nation. According to this view, expelling the 45th president—driving him from office by any means necessary—opens the way to our national salvation. T…

Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)

By Becky Garrison

…ein case will help him understand why non-consensual touching is not A-OK. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power (Metropolitan Books) by Anna Merlan The perfect gift for those looking for a solid, well-researched, and measured approach to debunking conspiracy theories. Armed with this book, you’ll be a master at the holiday dinner table as you offer gentle corrections to all your militant relatives who…

Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…prefer in the time of coronavirus? Would you like the erratic worship of “freedom” and “strength” pushed by Pres. Trump, who can’t seem to decide if COVID-19 is a threat or defeated, or if he just needs to cover his ass? The religion that’s fired by know-nothing cultists astroturfed into a frenzy of defending Trump’s economy, and by extension his re-election? That’s content to allow “blue states” to go bankrupt, and more than a little happy to us…