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What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…uccess is so intertwined with the rise of suburbs? One possibility is that American evangelicalism will become more urbanized—leaving suburban evangelicalism with an uncertain future. The conservative Christian publication World Magazine (not to be confused with the conspiracy-theory-laden website WorldNet Daily) suggests as much when it reports that evangelicalism’s celebrities are becoming more and more citified: Just 10 years ago, you would hav…

The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style

By Joseph Laycock

…created a community center after the destruction of Katrina. The “healing center” now houses a fitness center and a performing arts space as well as Glassman’s voodoo shop. The Anba Dlo festival is also intended as a philanthropy project that calls attention to an often ignored problem. At midnight, following the conference, Glassman held a ceremony to invoke “La Siren,”—the Haitian name for the Yoruba sea goddess Yemaja. The ceremony was partly…

The Death of Another Deathbed Conversion

By Austin Dacey

…? During my years as a philosopher on staff with the secularist think tank Center for Inquiry, I had an insider perspective on this unfortunate process. In 2001, while I was managing editor of Philo, the Center’s academic journal, we received a “letter to the editor” from Flew. The editor of Philo at the time, Quentin Smith (an exceedingly prolific scholar) had a hard enough time keeping track of his own views, let alone Flew’s. Smith was understa…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…well-organized conservative Christian proselytism that is already making deep inroads into public education. *This article originally identified the National Center for Law & Policy as the National Center for Policy and Law. RD regrets the error. …

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…shari’ah law to the Constitution. At an event held at the Capitol Visitors Center shortly before Thanksgiving last year, Islamophobic agitator Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy put on a panel of speakers, including Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who urged Congress to investigate how shari’ah law poses a dire threat to the Constitution. Gaffney’s “Team B” report on shari’ah law, released earlier last fall, found favor with Republicans like…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…times the mass of our sun, about 55 million light years from Earth, at the center of a supergiant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87. If you have a similar attitude to mine, then you were perhaps struck by the strange sublimity of this photograph. There are, it must be said, certain theological implications to that celestial wonderment. I speak not of some claim that the black hole confirms any literal or conventional belief in a deity. God need…

Yes, It’s Worse To Be Gay in Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…counter this view, Sharlet cites an article that describes a recent Levada Center poll. “Can you imagine only 7% of Americans opposing a law forbidding ‘gay propaganda?’” Sharlet asks. And of course he’s right that the American “liberals” downplaying the severity of the anti-LGBT climate in Russia are wrong. While I do not doubt that in some parts of the US, same-sex couples are still justifiably afraid to hold hands in public, a country in which…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…inority” view of Asian-Americans in a way that was both insulting to Asian-Americans and openly contemptuous of African-Americans. The other galling thing about Sullivan (and so many other overprivileged white gays) is his uncritical embrace of heteronormativity: his fervent wish that we all marry and have kids and settle into a “normal” bourgeois lifestyle. This goes to how generally un-woke these privileged white gay men are when it comes to the…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

…Israeli Defense Forces. Although I am a progressive and oppose the current center-right coalition government, one can certainly appreciate that now is a difficult moment to demand—in the stark terms of divestment—unilateral action that would increase the insecurities of the Jewish state. Which brings me to the reason the GA stated for its decision: harming relationships with Jews. Yes, some Jews supported the divestment measure—but not the America…

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

…c moderates (and their pundits) would have you believe, the U.S. is not a “center-right” nation; if anything, we are a “center-left” nation, especially when it comes to opposing tax cuts for the wealthy. Faith leaders who say they care about the most vulnerable have a real opportunity here in relation to their own messaging and advocacy. As I’ve written before in these pages, tax plans are moral documents—as much, or more so, than budgets. Faith l…