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The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…ics of the culture ways by re-conceptualizing the promise of America for a new generation of seekers and explorers. Another extremely important but too often overlooked aspect of the Grateful Dead’s legacy is their religious and spiritual significance, especially in the American context. For scholars of religion, the Grateful Dead experience looks like religion, as it contains within it all the traditional markers of religion—ritual, pilgrimage, b…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…s just another part of our lives that demands we figure out how to engage one another with kindness, ethics, and holiness; and hopefully rabbis can be part of that discussion. Do you find modern day ‘American culture’ at odds with ‘Jewish culture’ in terms of sexuality? I find it difficult to presume that either American culture or Jewish culture is entirely monolithic. There are many different streams, many different conversations happening all t…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…t the ambitious goals they have for their 1,000-person staff: a vision of one million new Christian soldiers who will win one billion souls—and raising one trillion dollars to make it happen. They tell young followers, “You’re going to take over the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.” It’s clear that much of the power American culture warriors have in Uganda comes from the money their ministries pour into the country along with their missionar…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…. Patrick’s Day, and Fourth of July all teem with diverse peoples, while Juneteenth needs to be a “safe space”? White ethnic festivals and American civil holidays allow for an unconscious honorary ethnic status. It’s possible to see a young Asian American person in a “Kiss Me I’m Irish” t-shirt at a St. Patrick’s Day parade but not at a Juneteenth festival in one that says “Free-ish since 1865.” Again, the issues of race and slavery prevent this l…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…a sustained period of time,” national conservatives would need to educate new generations of bureaucrats to align with their ideology. John Oliver has a thing or two to add to this conversation: Going all in on open White nationalism—The masks come off (or on, depending on how you look at it) David Azerrad, a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College, delivered an unabashedly White nationalist and male supremacist speech, for which he received one of…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…of physician-assisted death, she said. “We’ve made such advances in medicine that we need this now,” Nancy Niedzielski said. “By living longer, you suffer longer, too. My husband is the perfect example. Twenty years ago, he would have died within weeks. But medicine kept him alive a long time, and so death becomes much longer and more horrible.” “Death with Dignity brings a balance back to medicine,” she said. The fight over whether terminally il…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…others was even more unrealistic than it is today.” The researcher for the new study, Mark Regnerus, isn’t free from his own bias, however. As Freedom to Marry points out in a press release on the study, Regnerus, ”is well known for his ultra-conservative ideology and the paper was funded by the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation – two groups commonly known for their support of conservative causes. The Witherspoon Institute also has…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…e lack thereof). Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield was elected as the conference’s new general secretary. NCR’s Winters, who has been an outspoken critic of the increasingly culture-warrior posture of the USCCB staff, called Bransfield’s election “a first-class disaster” for the conference. As Winter noted, “The sad and regrettable fact is that the USCCB of late has acquired only the smell of the neo-conservative, upper middle class Catholic sheep and the…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…you had to leave out? Historians always want to include every interesting anecdote and vignette from their research. We spend so much time in the archives, getting to know our subjects, and often working with very, very personal letters, diaries and family papers. There were plenty of personal details that I thought could have added more “personality” to some of the folks that I talked about, but would have been distracting to the larger points th…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…leaders who also understand that gays and lesbians can do a lot to “redefine” marriage in beneficial ways. Rev. Ed Bacon, who leads the 4,000 member All Saints Church in Pasadena, Calif., told Oprah Winfrey this past weekend that marriage would be “enriched” by same-sex couples. I’ve never had a straight couple come to me and say, ‘My marriage is in trouble because of the gay couple living next door.’ To the contrary, I’ve had people come to me a…