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

By Colin Chapell

…le I do not share a lot of political views with the people those words describe, I tried to keep those folks in mind as I wrote. I wanted to keep them engaged, because I don’t think you can change minds if your audience stops listening. This meant that I had to demonstrate that I respect their faith. At the same time, I wanted to challenge them to rethink some ideas about what goes into constructing a personal identity–perhaps even convincing them…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s 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 and say, ‘Because of the love between Bob and Joe, I have learned how better to love my wife or my husband. Similarly, across the pond, the Bishop of Salisbury,…

Sacred&Profane: The Living Dead

By Gary Laderman

…the darkness, and the history of Halloween, as most readers here know, is primarily about collapsing the boundaries between the living and the dead. Most accounts begin with Samhain, a pagan holiday that marked the beginning of winter but also celebrated the migration of the dead to the next world. The pre-Christian Celtic cultures throughout Europe, Ireland, and England understood the period around November 1 as not just a time to bring in the ha…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…dence is that Iyengar and his yoga system, although products of their temporal, spatial, and even corporeal contexts, have put an enduring imprint on the vast history of yoga….

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…e right circumstance to have a baby, a pregnant person has the inherent spiritual authority not to call that particular future into being. Religious freedom law protects religious practices regardless of whether they’re mandatory in any religious tradition or derive from formal religious doctrine. After all, no religious text prohibits adherents from providing contraception in a healthcare insurance plan for employees. As such, while Jewish plaint…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…the brash and profane Trump, and they have expressed disapproval for the thrice-married billionaire’s lifestyle and temperament. Mormons have understandably bristled at Trump’s comments from a 2014 interview that have recently come to light where he argued that Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election because many Christian voters were repelled by his “alien” faith. In a recent article for Religion News Service, the popular Mormon blogger Jana Reiss sug…

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

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…e “Happy Juneteenth.” So perplexing is this politics of recognition that African American Studies scholar LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant jokingly queried on Twitter, “so when White folks wish me happy juneteenth i’m supposed to say…. ?” https://twitter.com/DoctorRMB/status/1670773119127003136 However, at the root of Manigault-Bryant’s query lies the problem with a federally recognized holiday to celebrate the end of slavery: Americans still can’t hones…

What Do ‘The Christians’ Believe? Easter Reflections from a Non-Christian

By Gary Laderman

…immigrants. On the Protestant side, many denominations that were composed primarily of Anglo-Europeans, like Methodists in the nineteenth century, are confronting the rise of ethnic congregations such as the Korean Methodist Church. This internal diversification of Christianity in America is more than just the multiplication of churches; it is a symptom of larger globalizing forces and processes that will transform cultures and theologies, and bea…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli leadership’s deployment of religious rhetoric and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced Bible passages in which God promises and enacts a total annihilation of the Amalekites—every man, woman, and child: “You must remember what Amalek has d…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…owed to charge Greaves with grave desecration, but no arrests were made. APRIL In April, the Satanic Temple announced its “Protect Children Project,” which opposes the use of corporal punishment in schools. It encouraged students to assert their religious conviction that their body is inviolable and cannot be subjected to abusive punishment. The Satanic Temple offered to put school boards “on notice” if they violate the religious rights of student…