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Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…tory of religion in modern Manhattan. “But religion comes in an incredible number of forms.” The dizzying varieties of American religious experience, scholars say, has roots nearly as deep as old-time religion. At the University of Virginia Mr. Hedstrom teaches a popular class called “Spiritual but Not Religious,” which traces the evolution of American spirituality from the 19th-century Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gos…

Goat Head Found in Brooklyn. Who Cares?

By Joseph Laycock

…, but The Gothamist has done this theory one better by suggesting that the number “93”—which appears on a tag on the goat’s ear—is linked to Aleister Crowley’s philosophy of Thelema. (One wonders how much time the alleged Thelemites spent finding a goat with a numerologically significant ear tag). Growing up in Texas, I once had the misfortune of getting into a conversation with a Renaissance Faire enthusiast whose hobby was blacksmithing his own…

Why Christians Should Not Host Their Own Passover Seders

By Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy

…ses here. – eds. I recently moved back to my hometown: a western suburb of Chicago that borders a town that is home to one of the largest and most influential evangelical Christian colleges in the country. As with most college towns, graduates often settle nearby. This makes my neighborhood a hub for evangelicalism and means that my neighbors tend to have followed the injunctions of their pastors to “keep themselves pure” from culture that is not…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…rated another victory, the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago. As the Times noted in an editorial earlier this month, the group’s executive director, Larry Pratt, said in an interview for that piece that when it comes to firearms, “we’re not really talking about a right but an obligation, as creatures of God, to protect the life that was given them.” In 2011, at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Pratt presented then-Rep. Ro…

Conservative Christianity’s “Come to Jesus” Moment in Wake of Elliot Rodger Shootings

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…is shooting—as an independent story or even in relation to the shooting at Santa Barbara—demonstrates an unwillingness to acknowledge just how pervasive rape culture is in our society—and how much something needs to be done to change it. Perhaps religious perspectives that highlight strict gender roles have a responsibility to respond when gendered ideologies that bear more than a passing resemblance to theirs lead to violence and murder. Of cours…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…University, Carlos A. Ball of Rutgers University, Sarah Barringer of the University of Pennsylvania, Douglas NeJaime of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver of the University of Chicago Law School, Richard C. Schragger and Micah J. Schwartzman of the University of Virginia School of Law, Nelson Tebbe of Brooklyn Law School, and Laura Underkuffler of Cornell University Law School….

We All Speak of “Conscience”—But Are We Talking About the Same Thing?

By Mary E. Hunt

…those who are religious, fall back on the notion that conscience is a sacrosanct dimension of human life, that which guides and shapes one’s choices. Religions take differing approaches to what forms a conscience, but there is still a rather strict one-to-one correspondence between input and expected result. The prevailing view is if one shapes a child in a faith tradition then one can expect to produce an adult who will act accordingly, though lo…

Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?

By Nick Tabor

…e order assigned him to study philosophy and theology at Loyola University Chicago, where he confronted theories of science for the first time. He found resonance in the historical realism school, which acknowledges the sociological factors in scientific research but still holds that science has “some validity” in describing reality. The books he’s written since do not call for a radical new synthesis between science and religion, but rather somet…

Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

By Cathleen Falsani

…ed minister of the Reformed Church in America and served a congregation in Chicago before his denomination asked him to move to Southern California and plant a church. With his wife Arvella (who died last year) serving as organist and “$500 in assets, he rented the Orange Drive-In Theatre and conducted Sunday services from the tarpapered roof of its snack bar,” according to Schuller’s biography on the Hour of Power website. “One hundred persons at…

Is Accreditation of Religious Institutions a “Farce”?

By Eric C. Miller

Dayspring Bible College and Seminary in suburban Chicago has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Board of Higher Education challenging its accreditation law, which presently allows such Bible schools to issue “certificates and diplomas” but not “degrees.” Several other Illinois Bible schools have joined Dayspring’s suit, arguing that, according to Morgan Lee’s report in Christianity Today: the current ban financially hurts unaccredited Bible col…