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Bloomberg is Right to Say No to Muslim School Holidays

By Hussein Rashid

…and which is not. However, it was a bonding experience for all the Muslim students at my school. Fighting the admittedly accommodating administration was a way we created community. It set us apart from other students. Mayor Bloomberg claims he is ready to make unpopular decisions. Let him. Deny the Id holidays, and take a stand for the first amendment. Deny all religious holidays. Stop days off for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Christmas, and Easte…

Offer to Lesbian Scholar Rescinded by Jesuit School

By Mary E. Hunt

…atholic Church’s antiquated teachings?” No response. A number of Marquette students have been active in their opposition to this move. Many alums are sickened by the whole affair, shocked that the institution that imparted strong values of service and social justice would disgrace its own history by this clueless, graceless, and perhaps illegal move. The Marquette Faculty Senate passed a resolution condemning the decision to rescind the offer but…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…tomized by an op-ed in The Tennessean by three gutsy Methodist high school students, Emma Anne Stephens, Tate Keuler, and Natalia Del Pino. They write about adoption discrimination at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children. The students invoked historical Methodist views on religious freedom and antisemitism against the Methodist Home’s action. Quoting from the Methodist “Book of Discipline” they write: “We condemn all overt and covert for…

The Religion of Self Improvement Grinds On Despite Hard Times for Grads

By Peter Laarman

…re already declining before the onset of the Great Recession), even as the number of graduates in the workforce grew from 26 to 30 percent during these same years. As a New York Times report lamented back in February, “the college degree is becoming the new high school diploma”: a degree is the minimum required to hold a job, but it is not enough to deliver a reasonable middle-class income. In a recent Harper’s essay, Jeff Madrick accurately descr…

Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%

By J. Dana Trent

…. What’s fascinating is that now the book has found its feet among college students (Generation Z, ages 16 to mid-20s). They’re curious how Dessert First translates to their experience and what the world’s traditions have to say about death and the afterlife. The book’s content has woven its way into my classroom, not as part of any curriculum, but out of students’ unprompted curiosity. Dessert First morsels help younger people process the kinds o…

A Matter of Life and Debt: The Role of Religion

By Peter Laarman

…uality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression. If the most urgent moral question of the 20th century was the question of color line, perhaps an equally urgent moral question for the 21st century is the debt line—a line not at all unrelate…

Nobel Laureates Tell Gov. Jindal to Repeal Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…United States’ retaining its competitiveness in science, it is vital that students have a sound education about major scientific concepts and their applications. We strongly urge that the Louisiana Legislature repeal this misguided law. Louisiana students deserve an education that will allow them to compete with their peers across the country and the globe. The law is based on intelligent design-promoter Discovery Institute’s sample “Academic Fre…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…United States regarding the accommodation or forced outing of transgender students, one should empathize above all with the trans students. Instead of uncritically adopting right-wing tropes about parents’ rights, reporters should also explicitly consider the issue of children’s rights. And instead of focusing on why parents may resent states and school districts that afford their queer minors safe spaces without explicitly informing the parents,…

Galileo’s Issue Was Satire as Much as Science

By Arri Eisen

“It was a mistake,” the monk said quietly. One of my students had stopped the brown-cloaked Dominican as he strode across the plaza of the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. We had just been reenacting Galileo’s trial just feet from where some of this monk’s brethren had presided over it around 380 years ago. My student wanted to know what this 21st-century monk thought about the whole thing. Just this summer, Florence reopened its hi…

Why Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton

By Lauri Lebo

…of Brown v. Board of Education, arguing they aren’t worthy role models for students. Barton’s recommendation was not followed and Chavez and Thurgood remain in the curriculum. He was more successful with his recommendation that the curriculum give equal weight in importance to teaching the Declaration of Independence as the US Constitution. As a clue to Barton’s motivation, nowhere in the Constitution is there a reference to God; but in the Declar…