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Yet Another Survey Shows ‘Nones’ Growth at Record Levels

By Elizabeth Drescher

…erkeley researchers highlights the continuing growth in the number of Americans who indicate no religious affiliation, with a full 20% now answering “none” when asked “What is your religious preference?” Michael Hout and Claude S. Fisher of UCB and Mark A. Chaves of Duke drew on data from the most recent General Social Survey (GSS), which has tracked religious preference since 1972, when a mere 5% of Americans self-identified as religiously unaffi…

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins

By Johnny P. Flynn

…fact, Ray is accused of ignoring the pleas of those who wanted out; in one case an individual went out through the side of the sweat lodge to escape the heat. The prosecution played tapes of Ray before the sweat saying, “It’s not a question of whether you’re going to die. You are. The question is: How did you live?” But Ray’s counsel, Los Angeles attorney Luis Li, noted in his opening statements that all the participants signed waivers and were fr…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…S., replace our Constitution with Shari’ah law, and establish a North American Caliphate here. That was the entire point of the presentation, to make people aware of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (and all the little ikhwans, CAIR, MSA, ISNA, ICNA, etc.) activities and objectives. Anyone who wanted to turn my information into a broad-brush indictment of all American Muslims in the U.S. have their own agenda. O’Brien is a Texas Republican Party delegate…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

…doctrines and principles that are held to be true by vast millions of American evangelicals.” When SGM was embroiled in a very different sort of scandal over allegations of coercive leadership by Mahaney—and his admitted blackmail of former SGM leader Larry Tomczak—evangelical responses were much the same. Mohler, describing Mahaney as a “visionary Christian leader,” insisted that there was “nothing disqualifying” in the allegations against him. D…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rested and abused here in Lebanon, too.” Anglican Communion: Archbishop of Canterbury calls special gathering to prevent schism over LGBT The Archbishop of Canterbury, in an effort to prevent the disintegration of the Anglican Communion over theological and cultural divides on teaching on sexuality, has called a special gathering of Communion primates in January 2016, including the leader of a conservative group in the U.S. that broke away from th…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years from Religion Dispatches on Vimeo….

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…articularly controversial. In fact, aside from a few nuances, what I’ve reported is essentially the consensus of American demographers of religion. Nor is this material trivial. The story of the rise of the nones in particular is vast, rich, and complex. Its social and political ramifications continue to unfold. Admittedly, there’s only so much room in a five-minute interview, but as it was, NPR wound up giving a platform to a shallow version of o…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…spurred the Democratic Party to action on gun control. Why, one could logically ask, can Republican politicians continue to oppose same-sex marriage despite the tidal wave of change in public opinion and the law, yet Democrats fall silent on gun control, and specifically on positions supported by this interfaith gun violence prevention group, background checks and assault weapons bans? According to a 2013 poll, 92% of Americans favor background c…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…ment by a discussion with the Association of Theological Schools. The American Academy of Religion has also responded. Over the days and weeks to come, we have every intention of entering conversations with colleagues and our boards of trustees to put into place concrete new ways of ensuring the eradication of systemic racism in academe. If this work is to be successful, we realize that we cannot limit our work to higher education but must also re…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…ndays movement. Given Hillary Clinton’s deep reservoir of support with African-American voters, it might not have made much difference, but it’s an interesting counter-factual to contemplate. Barber himself seems to have thought along similar lines, suggesting at one point an alliance with the liberal netroots community Daily Kos, long a bastion for support for Sanders. (Full disclosure: I used to be very active at Daily Kos and formerly ran its r…