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Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…p House installation had been a lot of things to different people. A quick search of the #PinkTrapHouse hashtag on Instagram shows it was a major tourist attraction to followers of 2 Chainz and lovers of trap music, a subgenre of rap originating in the South, with Atlanta arguably being its central hub. To others, it was an art gallery, housing local artists’ depictions of other groundbreaking rappers such as Tupac and André 3000. To some, it was…

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

By Jay Michaelson

…ince she was nine years old. Bornstein interrupts the memoir’s narrative a number of times to directly address these lost descendants, hoping against hope that they will someday read it. She knows, though, that for any of them to even contact her would brand them enemies of the Church. And yet, Bornstein says quite clearly that in the 1970s no one in Scientology thought of it as a religion at all. Hubbard’s teachings were regarded as infallible, b…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…issues. So what lessons were learned? Chiefly, not to diminish another’s search for God, afterlife, and life. Another, be sure to thank Governor Andrew Cuomo and his domestic partner for showing us a new and winning strategy for justice. They are on the right track. And finally: let’s never forget the price of rent or the cost of gas while we also remember our sister, brother, cousin, and friend. In other words, cultural issues are not “better”…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ry of the Americas. We often forget that Europeans crossed the Atlantic in search of trade routes that would bypass Muslim empires and merchants. People of Muslim heritage were involved in the encounters and rivalries that established the Atlantic world, and some of them ended up in the Americas. It was not, however, until the rise of the Atlantic slave trade that tens of thousands of Muslims were brought to America. They participated in local sla…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…s as a pastor’s daughter in the South, and when it came time for a college search, she cast her eyes to New York University, graduating in 2005 with her BFA. She is now studying for a master’s degree at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Button doesn’t flinch when approaching difficult subject matter. From the Jim Crow South to the Rape of Tamar in the Bible, Button’s work presents a complex and fresh artistic vision. Her Hymnbook…

3 Thoughts on Canada’s Proposed Ban on Religious Clothing

By Nathan Lean

…es dangling from their ears or necks have rushed into the public sector in search of jobs only to be confronted by tensions or unneccesary confrontations that prevent them from serving the public? Are so many of Canada’s public defenders, health care professionals, law enforcement officials, judges, and other government employees expressing their religious beliefs through their clothing — and facing backlash — that a Charter is even necessary? Or…

“I Was a Wild Man”: How to Decode Evangelical Testimony

By Eric C. Miller

…rsity as well in: “30 Minutes to a Shareable Testimony.” Do a quick google search on how to share your testimony, and you are certain to find scores of others. Many, like this one, teach you how to limit your life story not just to three easy steps, but also to three easy minutes. The result, all too often, is a flat, uniform pattern of thought and speech stripped of all distinction. And yet, invariably, it will be clear, simple, digestible, and u…

As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger

By Joe Freeman

…the urn has yet to be found, despite authorities calling for a nationwide search. But artifacts can take a long time to recover. (In the same month that the relics were stolen, Sotheby’s auction house in New York agreed to return a statue to Cambodia that first disappeared in the 1970s amid civil war.) Eav Chamroeurn, the provincial police chief in the area, declined to go into detail about the case. “We are continuing our investigation, but we c…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…y. Breezing through The Unlikely Disciple, it felt like the language I was searching for at Brown (in the desolate middle of the Bush years) had suddenly arrived. By the time of Roose’s semester and his writing, the president’s approval ratings were in permanent free fall, his nefarious theocratic designs evidently vanquished. In that climate, Roose found ready at hand the language for common ground and the gradient of hope. Sound familiar? A New…

Soy Story: Atrocious ‘Reporting’ on Insular Religious Groups

By Eli Federman and James Moxness

…insular religious societies like the Amish or Hasidic Jews may be due to a number of issues, from the difficulty of contacting individuals for interviews to the fact that insular communities are less likely to challenge a story. Or, just as likely, it may be due to biases about obscure religious customs and practices that predispose outsiders—which journalists and TV producers almost always are—to be less critical about the information they receiv…