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Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…ance at ECU, said, “If he’s an atheist and he has those beliefs that’s his business, but he has no business telling our students what to believe.” As anyone who’s spent time in eastern North Carolina knows, being called an atheist is no small matter. Incidentally, Hvastkovs regularly attends church. ECU was fairly quick to distance itself from Hvastkovs, overturning his putative “ban” on religious speech. In an email to chemistry majors, ECU provo…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…t its members sure as heck don’t want religion getting into their personal business via legislation or government policy. Add to these “nones” the increasing number of Americans who do self-identify as religious but who decline to vote the way certain popinjay enforcers would have them vote—who vote instead on bread-and-butter issues—and you have a pretty significant sea-change from the last few election cycles. One can imagine the used-car busine…

“Godly Or Bad?”: The Return of Ted Haggard

By J. Terry Todd

…back to Louisiana, where his ministry began, all the while developing his business plan for cut-rate life insurance. As for Haggard’s marriage, things have improved, thanks to therapy and to Gayle’s patience and forgiveness. Recently, if you’ve cared to notice, we’ve learned even more from news reports and interviews leading up to the premier of Trials. Haggard, now fifty-two, is back home in Colorado Springs, living with Gayle and their five chi…

Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law

By Sunnivie Brydum

…equally under the law were actually attempts to oppress good, God-fearing business-owners and citizens. “Good laws like Mississippi’s protect freedom and harm no one,” claimed Kevin Theriot, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the well-funded Christian legal group representing Gov. Bryant in the cases. “The sole purpose of this law is to ensure that Mississippians don’t live in fear of losing their careers or their businesses sim…

U.S. Christianity is Dead, Long Live U.S. Christianity

By Richard Flory

…t-of-touch institutions that seem more interested in keeping themselves in business than in serving the needs and desires of members and (potential) attendees, people will continue to opt out of them. From my vantage point, the current disarray in American religious identity and participation is less a story of people “losing their religion” than one of dissatisfaction with the institutional options available to them. What does this mean for the f…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…hether it was successful at increasing health care coverage to millions of Americans, the board would no doubt want students to be taught how reform represented the Communist takeover of Amerika. And that it was only the pushback from noble Tea Party brigades and their true patriotic efforts that kept this nation from descending into a Soviet gulag. Of course, the ugliness and racism displayed at the Capitol by Tea Partiers this weekend will be ai…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…cy theory. Being angry about homelessness and the costs of running a small business in California fueled a sense of grievance that politicians—those nefarious elites—weren’t working in her favor, which is the populist logic underlying QAnon’s more phantasmagoric claims of child trafficking and adrenochrome harvesting. Babbitt also had a history of resorting to violence in response to personal misfortune; her second husband’s ex-girlfriend received…

Thinking About God Makes Your Brain Bigger

By Andrew Newberg

…ted in endless ways. You can use it to become more motivated to succeed in business. You can apply it to communication to reduce relationship conflicts. You can do a sixty-second meditation involving yawning to quickly relax your body and mind. Indeed, you can use the same technique to bring a roomful of children, students, or CEOs to attention with their brains becoming acutely attuned to each other: a fancy way of saying that yawning can actuall…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…to avoiding censorship whenever possible. This approach lets Twitter as a business—and a public one at that—more peacefully coexist with local and national governments in order to ensure continuation of access while preserving as much freedom to speak as possible. For example, CWC allows for anti-Semitic commentary to be withheld in Germany while still available in the United States, where it may not specifically violate any laws (other than the…

Surprise: Local Press Does Good Job Covering Anti-Islam Campaigning…

By Hussein Rashid

…ue is that the “special” made it a point to ignore one-third of the Muslim-American population, namely African-Americans, to make Muslims seem new and foreign. It was interesting that in their call for interviewees they wanted professionals (doctors and lawyers) to talk about the history of Islam in America, not professionals like academics to talk about it. It is akin to having me talk about open heart surgery as a professional. It is dishonest a…