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The Next Big Religion Issue: Immigration

By Daniel Schultz

…ants well, because you used to be one. In the New Testament, Jesus’ family flee to Egypt to escape Herod’s persecution, Paul spends most of his time shuttling from country to country within the Roman empire, and the Gospels are chock-full of characters from foreign lands who come to meet or be healed by Jesus. Some epistle texts go so far as to address Christians as exiles or temporary guests in the foreign land of the world. Like the Old Testamen…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…s my role.” I just get Apple’s rainbow death wheel! You seem like a self-reflexive guy, you must reflect on… Daily survival is wake up, make the kids breakfast, take them to school, walk the dog, work on the next thing. If I could help people see that faith is a natural intelligent response to the world that we’re in, if I could help rescue the Jesus story from some of the other perspectives that feel like they’ve hijacked it, that would bring me…

Episcopal Conference Lives Up to Episcopal Jokes

By Julie Ingersoll

…the height of the battling, that it was all not such a big deal, that the number of dissidents was actually quite small and that he thought his church would be better off once they were gone. Indeed, according to Wikipedia there are over 7,000 Episcopal congregations in the US with over 2 million members, though the significance of that number is unclear since, as the priest in the church where I was baptized once teased me: “when you’re baptiz…

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…uncommon to split along political lines, with the conservatives declaring flatly that they will not be vaccinated. In others, individuals skip the show and the vaccine without discussion. All of this adds up to a significant challenge to helping implement a monumental social effort. Perhaps more disturbing is the PRRI report’s intimation that the barriers to vaccination are as much ways of seeing the world as anything. Some hesitation is natural,…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…ts and fundraisers that Harris ran a perfect, or even a great, campaign is flat-out wrong. And, since learning the wrong lesson often leads to future losses, it’s absolutely crucial for the Democratic Party to get it right at a time when the stakes are perhaps the highest they’ve ever been. But given their predilection for neoliberalism and fixation on the vanishingly small number of ambivalent Republican voters, a widespread media narrative about…

The Gospel of Contradiction: An Interview with Mary Gordon

By Nathan Schneider

…g that relationship to a community anymore. The form of this book covers a number of different genres, including commentary, exegesis, polemic, and memoir. Was there a model in mind? No, I didn’t have any model. The books about Jesus that I went to were either very, very personal and not analytic at all, or very analytic and not personal at all. I was trying to mesh those two voices. I let the stories steer me. Originally, I intended to do some ki…

How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…or even federal—protections aimed at combatting discrimination against any number of marginalized populations. “The cultural and political prominence of religious freedom as an American ideal draws people to it,” Wenger said. “The reason people appeal to it for all sorts of purposes is because it’s so culturally, politically, and legally powerful.” Indeed, as Wenger’s book documents in deep historical detail, the bedrock American principle has alr…

The Religious Case Against Religious Discrimination in Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…like Phillips’s. But, as survey after survey has demonstrated, substantial numbers of Catholics, and to a lesser extent evangelicals as well, are not following their denominations’ leaders down this particular road, and there is a growing number of religious institutions that have embraced marriage equality and advocated for LGBTQ+ rights in the public square. Cases like Masterpiece Cakeshop make it clear that the boundaries of a national settleme…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…its Web site “is attracting some 1.2 million visitors each month, which reflects a growth of over 400% in the past 12 months.” The AFA claims that “over two million people can immediately share their opinions with policymakers and corporations simple by responding to one of the online-focused initiatives.” Wildmon’s group claimed victory in its boycotts of the Ford Motor Company and McDonald’s, both of which “backed out of their promotion of the…

Do Atheists Belong in the Interfaith Movement?

By Chris Stedman

…imilar to themselves and gaze upon others with suspicion. For diversity to flower, individuals must meet and learn from one another. Similarly, in Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India, Ashutosh Varshney theorized that the likelihood that inciting events would lead to widespread or long-term violence was significantly less in communities where civic ties across lines of religious identity were present. In populations where su…