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Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…ew radical groups that exert much political influence in Congress and the White House.” Meanwhile, Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, which supports the contraception mandate, said the group was pleased with the Supreme Court decision, but “we are also aware, however, that the battle to ensure that individuals can make conscience-based decisions about their health care is not over. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has…

Atheists Gather in Burbank: A Humanist’s Response

By Anthony B. Pinn

…n of one’s chosen orientation. Rather it involves recognition that a mature approach to life rejects fundamentalism of any kind, and demands complex relationships of shared ethical commitment even when those relationships are burdened with tension….

Keeping Property, Losing People

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ewport Beach, we are talking prime real estate in the heart of town.) But this decision will hasten the bloodletting of the American mainlines as it puts established congregations in the position to follow the lead of the Charismatics—take the folks and plant independent churches from scratch. One would hope denominational heads would use the pressure this decision places on renegade congregations to force some sort of agreement. If not, both the…

Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke

By Robert P. Jones

…Soto Zen priest at the Berkeley Zen Center and program director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship talks about the place of socially engaged Buddhism in the emerging progressive religious movement. Senauke talks about the resources engaged Buddhism brings to the fundamental task of trying not to live life “at the expense of others” : To me the Buddhist precepts, they boil down to not living your life at the expense of other beings, …and this is very…

Convicted Wall Street Con Artist Finds New Target: Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…his participation as the engineer of a phony bond and investment scheme, which netted his Wall Street investment firm nearly $11 million in illegal fees. The U.S. Attorney who handled the case at the time, K. William O’Connor, told the court at his sentencing that Goldberg’s crime was “a fraud of spectacular scope.” Seems Goldberg, and his investment firm Matthews & Wright, sold some “$2 billion in fraudulent municipal bonds for communities ran…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…icans were brought into the movement and why they stayed—because they saw this white man going to the barricades for them, identifying with them, having family members who looked like them and constantly making racial inclusion a part of the superficial cultural propaganda of the Temple. When the People’s Temple moved to San Francisco in the 1970s, black communities were being disempowered and displaced. A lot of parasitic development was going on…

Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

By Sarah Posner

…etter to the president. There is a press conference later today on Capitol Hill, at which members of Congress and of CARD plan to call “for President Obama to restore religious liberty protections in employment law” after President George W. Bush rolled those protections back via executive order in 2002. I have written about this many times, but I will write it again: Obama promised on the campaign trail in a July 2008 speech in Zanesville, Ohio,…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…wn seated, his left arm holding his right arm, dark and mechanical. During his third combat deployment, Brown stepped on an IED, a thirteen-pound blast that severed both legs above the knee and his right arm above the elbow. Brown underwent 40 surgeries and spent three and a half years at Walter Reed. Painting of Scott Alan Adams Sr. courtesy of George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Military green dominates the portrait of Sergeant First…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…re with or replace Sunday observances. America’s Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories Bruce David Forbes University of California Press October 27, 2015 Over time, however, some Puritan colonies began to celebrate an annual thanksgiving in late November or early December, a belated harvest celebration or really an early winter observance. Some ministers opposed the annual fall event but it became popular nevertheless, eventually seen as a New Engla…

Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course

By Joseph Laycock

…is class so we are all “social studies teachers.” I’d like to see religious studies become a separate credential for teachers but that’s unlikely. Most religion scholars are teaching in the university. Do you think this curriculum could be implemented in other school districts? I know it could and it should. I had hoped it would happen within our first five years. 15 years have now passed. It’s time!…