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“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…vertent sight of a naked female thigh. Male missionaries, however, had gym classes scheduled throughout the day. They could and often did walk to and from their classes clad only in the skimpiest of shorts, their T-shirts in their hands or tossed over one shoulder. No one worried about the effect on young women of running into a gang of half-naked men—perhaps because we weren’t considered capable of any action that might endanger either them or us…

Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham

By Douglas Harrison

…me Brother Billy persona was of course one powerful alternative for middle-class evangelicals who wanted to look up and away from Sister Aimee’s down-market unseemliness. Shea’s success distinguished itself for being both more explicitly commercialized than Graham’s, while also retaining all the bourgeois respectability so often found missing in the tawdriness of the Elmer Gantrified competition—the faith healers and the New Thought movement and t…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…ot necessarily knowing what my position was, and through the course of the class I watched a couple of films that profoundly shaped my thinking. One of them was a film that showed a lot of footage of Vietnam War victims and the effects of Agent Orange and napalm; the other one was a film about Hiroshima and what happened after we dropped nuclear bombs. And when I watched those films, it was clear to me that this is not a morally acceptable way to…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…cceptable, the idea that an evil cabal was secretly exploiting the working class majority with equal parts financial schemes and social liberalism became a key pillar of the right-wing appeal to blue collar interests. During the 1960s, while figures like William F. Buckley were celebrated for allegedly expelling antisemites from the Conservative Movement, scholars like John S. Huntington and David Austin Walsh have shown that antisemitism was alwa…

Taking (Public School) Teachers to Church, and the Mosque, and the Temple…

By Lisa Webster

…ores lived religion in much the same way the teachers might do it in their classrooms: by inviting people into the classroom to speak about their faiths, and by visiting local sites that are important to faith communities—all the while focused on keeping to an academic, “outsider” (and not devotional, “insider”) perspective. To those of who report on religion and its role in society and culture, it seems clear that a solid education should include…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…lencamp’s small-town, but both had little hope of uniting audiences across class lines in the way that Springsteen does. (People don’t show up for Mellencamp and scream out demands for “Small Town,” the way they congregate en masse at Madison Square Garden for Springsteen and demand “Hiding in the Backstreets.”) And now, for No Better Than This, Mellencamp is following Springsteen and numerous others, in moving into the realm of roots music, or Am…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…e been unlucky enough to have trespassed. Public offices are not like the “businesses” Tony Soprano “owns,” the use for which you have to pay what he demands on top of the cost of service. Tony’s “businesses” are very personal things, part of himself. And, thinking this way about public offices is precisely what defines “corruption” means. Flip the coin, and just as Kim Davis does not own the County clerkship, despite her mother having served in i…

What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ius, but he also wrote a concurring opinion in which he held that both the businesses and the Green family had standing to contest the ACA’s requirements. Articulating an expansive view of the scope of RFRA protections, Gorsuch depicted the Greens as being forced to choose “between abiding their religion or saving their business”: the same dilemma Phillips claims to face in Masterpiece Cakeshop. In his opinion, Gorsuch made clear that he does not…

Pew: Atheists and Agnostics Best Informed on Religion

By Lauri Lebo

…respondents, asked whether public school teachers are permitted to lead a class in prayer, correctly answered no. But fewer than one of four knew that a public school teacher is permitted “to read from the Bible as an example of literature.” And only about one third knew that a public school teacher is permitted to offer a class comparing the world’s religions. The survey’s authors concluded that there was “widespread confusion” about “the line b…

Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals

By Chrissy Stroop

…g a surprise reunion of Trump guest Amy Williams and her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Townshend Williams, and awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to right-wing radio charlatan Rush Limbaugh, whose advanced lung cancer diagnosis does nothing to erase his substantial contributions to the destruction of America’s information ecosystem. Trump’s appreciation for post-truth bluster and militarism are certainly among the characteristics that endear him…