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The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

By Terry Shoemaker

…year’s All-Star game, one team wore Kobe’s number 24, while the other wore number 2, Gianna’s uniform number. The MVP award, given this year to Los Angeles Clippers’ star forward Kawhi Leonard, was renamed permanently for Kobe Bryant. Pregame and half-time shows centered on Kobe, his family, and his impact on the sport of basketball and society. The collective grief and bereavement displayed by fans and players alike not only demonstrate the power…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…City tag.” He notes that anti-gay religious activists, while not large in number, are relatively vocal: Choi Chi-sum, general secretary of the conservative Christian group, the Society For Truth And Light, for example, has been given an increasingly prominent stage to present his views following Taiwan’s legislative change. His opinions on same-sex marriage, sexual minority anti-discrimination laws, and even the recent “controversy” over a homose…

Closed-Door Conference in Poland Shows How US Conservative Christian Networks Export ‘Conversion Therapy’

By Antonia Gross and Rina Nikolaeva

…position as “USA Country Representative” and has spoken on IFTCC stages a number of times. In many ways Haynes embodies the US conversion network presence at the Warsaw conference. In addition to her affiliations noted above, she wrote a letter to the UN that was published by Family Watch International; she was interviewed by Family Research Council president Tony Perkins; and, on behalf of the IFTCC, she drafted a declaration against conversion…

Meditation Sickness: Everyone is Talking About How Nobody is Talking About The Risks of Meditation

By Ira Helderman

…ation teachers and the protocols they do (or do not) utilize to respond to students who do encounter struggles. She’s been troubled by teachers who suggest that such meditators must have a pre-existing psychiatric condition, even as the evidence shows that many do not. Arguing that, if someone falls into depression it’s because they already had a propensity for it, sounds to Britton, as she told me, very much like “victim blaming”—an effort to def…

Could Fred Phelps Bring Tolerance To Mississippi Community?

By Lauri Lebo

…ying it would be at the local country club. When she showed up, only seven students were there, including, McMillen said, a couple of learning disabled kids. Meanwhile, the real prom was held at the furniture store. Facebook photos from the event are here. Oh, one can just imagine the sheer hilarity that ensued as the students all congratulated each other on a great job pulling off such a hoax on this one girl. I picture the mothers, who organized…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…rly standpoint Meacham and Quinn’s question was not sufficiently nuanced. (Students of Jewish history would be quite surprised by their assertion that “we know what ‘Jewish identity’ meant in the past”—in fact, what constitutes modern Jewishness has been the subject of vigorous debate since the French Revolution!) But if the question lacked nuance, Arun Gandhi’s answer, posted (perhaps too hastily) on the same day that the question was posed by th…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…999 crusade in our city, Colonial Christian School essentially forbade its students from even attending. As class of ’99 Colonial graduate Jennifer Berry related to me in a Facebook exchange, “I did get the distinct impression they disapproved of Billy Graham in particular for his association with Martin Luther King, Jr.” Does that make my high school “evangelical” and hers “fundamentalist”? We’re talking more about matters of degree than kind. Je…

Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence

By Ira Chernus

…f history. I have learned all this from teaching Gandhi and nonviolence to students for many years. In each of those years I’ve read truly anguished essays saying, in effect, “I would love to believe that Gandhi is right. But in the real world…” And each year, sooner or later, one of these conflicted students cries out, “Yes, but what about the Holocaust?” Well, what about the Holocaust? In fact, no one can say for sure what would have happened if…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…tegory 1, involved “encouraging schools to teach the Bible and encouraging students and teachers to express religious beliefs in school—both of which can lead to proselytism or denigration of non-Christian faiths.” Still others sought to provide religious exemptions (or refusals) from the law in ways that would affect access to reproductive and LGBTQ health care. These included versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and First Ame…

Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science

By Arri Eisen

“Do bacteria require light?” Tashi, one of my best students, wants to know. He sits there in Dharamsala, India, like his Buddhist monk colleagues, cross-legged on the floor in maroon robes, six hours a day learning science from a tall white Jewish guy from North Carolina. Religion often has a hard time of it, especially among academics, and especially among scientists. Of course academics have no problem studying religion and raising big money to…