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Anachronistic Arrogance: How Scorning Our Intellectual Mothers and Fathers Makes Us Real Dumb Real Fast

By Peter Laarman

…nial history, not to any current public endorsement as Christianity as the official county religion (quite hilarious to think about in the context of LA’s religious demography). Last week I took part in a university-based panel discussion for Fulbright scholars on the challenge of religious pluralism in US society. Along the way I mentioned, in a positive context, Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. Almost on cue, another p…

Bishops Rile Up the Religious Right, Then and Now

By Patricia Miller

…r benediction. It was a lost cause for Carter given the Democratic Party’s official pro-Roe stance…but he nevertheless sought a meeting with the NCCB executive committee and tried to mollify them by noting his personal opposition to abortion….The bishops told the assembled press waiting breathlessly for the outcome of the meeting that they were “disappointed” with Carter’s position on abortion. Ford…embraced the Republican Party’s call for a const…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…, decides that humanity isn’t necessarily worth protecting. After all, his official title is “Guardian of the Universe,” and if humankind is going to harm the universe with wars and pollution, then why should he bother with us? We’re not quite the threat that other, evil giant monsters are, but if we get in the way of a stray fireball here or there, it’s no concern of Gamera’s. This cynical philosophy is embodied in the form of a 10-minute rampage…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…he married couple — not just the man, not just the woman, but both.” Peru: Officials Calls for Civil Unions The Washington Blade reports that last week a Peruvian official recommended that the Congress approve a civil unions bill that has been introduced by Congressmen Carlos Bruce, Martha Chávez and Julio Rosas. Public Defender Eduardo Vega Luna told Congressman Juan Carlos Eguren Neuenschwander, president of the Commission of Justice and Human R…

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…on trial and physically destroying her school. The Colonization Society’s official name was “The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color in America.” In the end the people who were transported to Liberia were English-speaking Protestant Christians who promptly recreated a Little America on Africa’s Atlantic coast. The “Americo-Liberians,” as they were called, formed their very own domination society, made in the image of a stratified…

Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power

By Sara J. Moslener

…e a specific audience in mind when writing? I’ve always had official and unofficial audiences in my mind. Primarily, I think about other scholars working on questions of religion, sexuality, and adolescence. Being part of a conversation about these topics has always been my goal. And I hope that my colleagues are able to use Virgin Nation to conduct their own conversations with students and readers. My unofficial audience is the group of people I…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…ity with evolutionary biology. While the books were passed among friends unofficially before his death in 1955, the same friends felt no qualms publishing the works to widespread audiences after he’d died. Because of this, Teilhard only truly became famous in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and is known today as one of the most influential Catholic theologians with regards to evolution in the second half of the 20thcentury. To chart this influence…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…tion and author of Dominion!: How Kingdom Action Can Change the World. His official bio says “In the 2000s, he began to move strongly in promoting the Dominion Mandate for social transformation, adopting the template of the Seven Mountains or the 7-M Mandate for practical implementation.” Wagner was an endorser of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer-rally-cum-presidential launch and dozens of members of the New Apostolic Reformation were involved i…

Mormons Absorb SCOTUS Prop 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…taking out a defensive position in defense of religious freedom. (Read the official LDS Church reaction here.) In one Washington, D.C., area stake, LDS Church leaders sent an email message to members requesting their attendance at a National Day of Prayer on religious freedom convened by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this Thursday in Arlington, Virginia. “We have been encouraged to have 20 members from our stake attend this event,” the m…

Little Sisters: When Exemptions Are Not Enough

By Sarah Posner

…,” PRC writes. According to Politico this morning, an unnamed White House official is “confident that our final rules strike the balance of providing women with free contraceptive coverage while preventing non-profit religious employers with religious objections to contraceptive coverage from having to contract, arrange, pay, or refer for such coverage.” In the case of employers with “church plans,” though, it seems like their employees will be o…