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Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…here’s a need to look at these stories on their own terms, rather than the more common RD analysis or commentary. We won’t leave politics completely out of the analysis, but there will be no litmus tests for ideological conformity. There’s a wrinkle to this in that while I’m a longtime analyst and have only occasionally produced straightforward religion journalism, I don’t have a degree in the subject, nor have I ever made a living as a journalist…

From Licking Floors to Praying for an Inept Government, Churches React to C-19

By Daniel Schultz

…ship services are among the largest regular gatherings in modern society, among the most physically intimate, and likely include the greatest number of vulnerable people. Even single members of large congregations can have a dramatic effect on how coronavirus spreads or doesn’t, as South Korea found out the hard way. While many aren’t meeting at all or are streaming services, some churches that do meet feel like they need to support those who need…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…ent to sensationalism, half truths and fear makes your perspective all the more important. I work with internationals at WSU and lately have made some friends among the Islamic community. I have studied side by side with some of these guys and compared the Bible with the Koran and continue to be amazed with the similiarities that I never knew existed most my life. I was the one in the crowd that asked you about the your story and experience in Det…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…that leads to other feminist gains: abortion, women’s careers, divorce, homosexuality, and more. “Family planning is the mother of abortion,” Pride writes. “A generation had to be indoctrinated in the ideal of planning children around personal convenience before abortion could be popular.” Turning back the tide, for Pride’s disciples, means going after the source: the idea that women may control their fertility in the first place. It’s no wonder…

Obstacles for Secularists

By Sarah Posner

…serve to bind the participants together. Atheism has none of these things—most of the time it’s an individual choice, made and kept alone. In my piece, I point out how even Democrats still resort to appeals to faith, but: The religious right has given the secular-humanist-atheist community a huge opening: by placing conservative religious doctrine front and center in the healthcare debate, they have raised serious constitutional questions about w…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…f around 400 Mormons marched in the Utah Pride Parade. Calling themselves “Mormons Building Bridges,” they were met with enthusiastic applause. Carrying signs with messages like “Love 1 Another” and “LDS heart LGBT,” they were there to show their support for the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) community and celebrate recent advancements in issues relating to LGBTQ people and Mormons, such as Bishops no longer excommunicating…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…ves quickly—after all, I’m comparing a country of 3 million to the world’s most dominant and domineering superpower—but the political paralysis shored up by faulty mechanisms of democracy is shared. While a different voting method like RCV would probably not have changed the outcome of that milestone 1990 election in Bosnia, the leading parties have benefited greatly from presidential winner-take-all elections since the war. Many of their candidat…

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…he one thing that they got right in this case. The U.S. has on the books a number of valuable laws against discrimination in the workplace, and all organizations (businesses, nonprofits, schools, governments) are expected to abide by these laws. Except religions, or so it now seems. According to the Tabor ruling, religious groups get a pass on the law when it comes to employees who are considered “ministerial.” The right to the free exercise of re…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…Romney proceeded to identify Palestinians with Hamas, as if that Islamist movement is homogenous, and fully representative of Palestinian views. But Hassan identified himself as a Palestinian American—and incidentally, he’s also a Christian. Gingrich proceeded back to that thing he calls history, telling the audience that “prior to the 1970s” Palestinians were actually Arabs, which is an amusing bit of diversionary hogwash, since a political Pale…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…intersex conditions, among them Klinefelter Syndrome (males with two x chromosomes); 46 XX Intersex (female chromosomes, female ovaries, external male genitalia); 46 XY Intersex (male chromosomes but malformed, ambiguous or completely female external genitalia); True Gonadal Intersex (XX or XY chromosomes but both ovarian and testicular tissue present, either in one “ovotestis” or with one ovary and one testis). An increasing number of public and…