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Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…hat happens when a person is liberated from the rigid nature of a religion with an extremely limited world view. These often begin with the person remembering the breaking-point moment, then explain how the individual was brought up in a family with strict religious beliefs, followed by a description of the person’s post-faith life. This is certainly not to say that these stories aren’t important or moving, it’s simply to point out that those look…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…int in the future and if so, why then and not now when Catholics are still flush with excitement over the new pope? Are people just driving to mass really, really slowly? Or, as I suggest, are they waiting to see if anything is really going to change? That seems to be at the heart of Gallicho’s complaints; that I’m suggesting that Catholics need to see some doctrinal change before they get invested in their religion again. He sees the fix as stron…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ing other women on campus with similar situations helps. Finally, if faced with a willfully unyielding colleague, chair or dean: document, document, document. I could go on about this, and I’ve only scratched the surface by focusing on the local departmental level. Moreover, when you reach middle age many of us become caretakers for our parents, which also complicates one’s work. We’ve got to make our academic environments more humane and progress…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…center of this radicalization, which sees so-called “feminists” partnering with right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to spread their bigotry. In fact, anti-trans hatred has been shown to be a pipeline to right-wing radicalization. United by the biological essentialist definition of sex and gender as one and the same, right-wing vocabulary and buzzwords like “gender ideology” have been mainstreamed in centrist and even some leftist c…

What’s So Troubling About Funding a Playground? How Trinity Lutheran Undermines the First Amendment

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…read it to suggest that only ‘playground resurfacing’ cases, or only those with some association with children’s safety or health, or perhaps some other social good we find sufficiently worthy, are governed by the legal rules recounted in . . . the Court’s opinion.” While this narrow reading of the case would limit the damage it inflicts on the Establishment Clause, it seems likely that at least some courts will interpret the decision far more bro…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…a White Christian nationalist (and a true believer at that), part of a growing number who see right-wing reactionary Christianity, White supremacy, and authoritarian politics as an integral part of “real” American identity. Those who do not fall under it must submit, or be forced, if need be, through violence. Johnson was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016, after serving two years in the Louisiana state legislature. Before his time i…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…out positions that might be otherwise submerged, it’s helpful. Too bad it flopped. Ted Cruz responded with a theologically defensible position, citing his reading of scripture, as opposed to direct revelation. Then he went into a word salad about his father the preacher and “campaign conservatives” and religious liberty and eagles and the flag… America! Kasich responded that his father was a mailman. Walker, who is possibly the most interesting o…

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…0s and 1980s Lefevbre was gradually estranged from Rome due to repeated conflict with popes, and his adherence to the Latin Mass and traditional doctrine. In 1988 he consecrated several bishops without papal approval, and he and the new SSPX bishops were excommunicated. This excommunication was in place until after Lefebvre’s death in 1991. But it did not stop the SSPX from expanding, training more priests, ministering to more parishes, and mainta…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…o reap huge profits without having to work themselves. He presents readers with a tableau of characters whom we will forever see in a new light, such as the department store magnate John Wanamaker, a marketing genius who also believed passionately that born-again Christians would transform society, and the aforementioned Bruce Barton, who likewise carried forward a touch of Social Gospel idealism despite his reconfiguration of Jesus to suit the ta…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…ok place, this last topic has risen to the fore, thanks in large part to a widely-circulated photo. Immediately following the meeting, Katie Loncke, Co-Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, took full advantage of a unique opportunity and collected several well-known Buddhist teachers for a photo in front of the White House. Together with such prominent Buddhists and scholars such as Lama Surya Das and Virtual Orientalism author Jane Iwamura,…