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Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…. Even professors talk about him with a shade of awe. As a freshman he was class president, but then he quit student government for greater things. He also has a visionary streak, and a knack for stringing winged words together into crescendos. Busy Notre Dame students need this, he says. They live in an “upper-middle-class Catholic Disneyland” and need to be shaken up. “I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an instigator, but—” he says, trailing off…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…ndustries; and even “class” (though how millennials were able to kill both class and not-exactly-classy chain restaurants like Applebee’s is anyone’s guess). The trend of bashing millennials shifted into high gear in 2013, when Time magazine published “The Me, Me, Me Generation,” prompting frustrated millennial cartoonist Matt Bors to publish an editorial cartoon response in which he eviscerated lazy stereotypes about his generation and insisted t…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…Brown Memorial is now almost entirely African American and lower to middle class. That’s how things have gone in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. Today, longtime residents are being displaced by condominiums (now left empty by the economic downturn), or young professionals still working their way up to Manhattan. The church is learning to stay “relevant” to the changing community. For Rev. Miller, relevance means “meeting human needs” ac…

2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

By Jessica Weisberg

…vagueness is a well-worn and pragmatic combination. The former is good for business; the latter will stave off criticisms in 2013. While the movement’s means might seem a bit dubious to those who don’t otherwise rely on the Mayan calendar, its ends are noble. Pinchbeck and others imagine 2012 as an idyllic time of peace, environmental stewardship, and equality. The film asserts that whatever happens in 2012, it will allow things like rooftop farms…

Atheists of Color Transcend Opposition to Religion and White Atheist Privilege in Working for Social Justice

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…e re-energized secular activism. Yet Black secularists in poor and working class African American communities are especially disdainful of liberal white atheists who bemoan the Religious Right’s grip on the Trump White House and public policy, yet remain silent on the racist criminalization of communities of color or rising homelessness among Black and Latinx folk. Secular social justice is a way of defining and articulating these critical differe…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…to membership status, trans folk in the church are to be treated as second-class members, in much the same way that Black people were treated until 1978. Trans people can get baptized and confirmed, but priesthood and temple ordinations remain tied to “birth sex.” Even attempts to socially or medically transition will now lead to other significant restrictions on membership. It’s important to note that in previous versions of the handbook such res…

When Words Kill: A Health Care Glossary

By Ann Neumann

…earch Poll, reported again last week by Kim Parker, shows that only 29% of Americans have living wills, up from 12% in 1990. She writes that while most Americans know what a living will (or an advance directive) is, they fail to create one. (Another interesting fact to come out of the poll which may help explain Republican efforts to conflate euthanasia, assisted suicide, and end-of-life planning: Race and religious affiliation are much more stron…

Marriage Remains on Hold for California Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their US District Court victory comes to its final conclusion.” The National Organization for Marriage, forgetting that real human beings are affected by such a ruling, showed its usual class with an “in your face” to attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies proclaiming: “the Dream Team of Olson and Boies continue their unbroken string of losing actions in e…

The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult

By Peter Laarman

…ival, even Bruce Barton’s hugely successful portrayal of Jesus as a shrewd American businessman, has attempted to claim the mantle of Primitive Church authenticity; He shows how a strong hermetic folk religion was present from the beginning (even John Winthrop, Jr. was a devotee of magical thinking) and how a fascination with alchemy and buried treasure came into full flower in early Mormonism and later in Christian Science and other New Thought m…

‘Heretics’ or ‘Atheists’? A Response

By Rachel Ozanne

…e, when this friend was the teaching assistant for a class on 20th-century American history, the professor emphasized women’s rights and feminism throughout the course. At the end of the semester, the professor asked the students how many of them believed in equal rights for women. Almost the entire class raised their hands. However, when he asked them how many of them were feminists, a much smaller number raised their hands. The professor and my…