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An Historic Meeting: African and African Diaspora Women Convene in Ghana for First-Ever Religion Conference

By Rosetta E. Ross

…s, and Christian denominational leaders and executives from Africa and the United States; representatives of Ghanaian Muslim women’s groups and Ghanaian traditional leader, Nana Amba Eyiaba, Queen Mother of the original Cape Coast area; as well as college, seminary, and university professors from Africa and the United States. Beginning with its opening ceremony, the meeting celebrated the diversity of African-descended women even as it sought to…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…white nationalist movements is that generations of progressive Jews in the United States have worked patiently and covertly, through myriad channels of civil society, government, and business, to orchestrate “white genocide”—the disappearance of the “white race” in the United States through gradual demographic minoritization, and cultural marginalization. The alt-right’s premier intellectual, evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald, has helped s…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…Natalia Del Pino. They write about adoption discrimination at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children. The students invoked historical Methodist views on religious freedom and antisemitism against the Methodist Home’s action. Quoting from the Methodist “Book of Discipline” they write: “We condemn all overt and covert forms of religious intolerance, being especially sensitive to their expression in media stereotyping. We assert the right of…

Who Defines Religious Freedom?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…d law professor Winnifred F. Sullivan has argued, religious liberty in the United States has always been a fiction. “There is no neutral place from which to distinguish the religious from the non-religious,” she wrote in The Immanent Frame after the Supreme Court’s 2014 Hobby Lobby decision. Few religions are self-contained, and religion in the United States has a long history of influence in the public sphere. But a society with hundreds of diffe…

World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

By Susan Henking

…movement challenged the Catholic Church’s role in AIDS/HIV politics in the United States; in doing so, they challenged, as well, who “owned” the Church. As one organizer argues in the film (and here I paraphrase): “THEY are not the Church. We are the Church.” While a single example, this statement reminds us, today, on World AIDS Day 2008, that throughout its history, AIDS/HIV has been entangled with religion—for good and ill. As we move into the…

The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them

By R.L. Stollar

…man history. But Faust and Manning bury in the footnotes the fact that the United States is the only member of the United Nations that has not ratified the Convention, which is due to lobbying by evangelicals led by homeschool leader Michael Farris (the godfather of the parental rights movement). Evangelicals incorrectly believe the Convention is a threat to parental rights, even though it explicitly affirms parental rights, declaring family is “t…

Prison Religion: Rehabilitation or Forced Conversion?

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ent can be made that “church” and “state” are not actually separate in the United States. This country has a distinctive religio-legal culture resulting from the prevalence of the free church model—particularly when compared to the church-state regimes of most European countries—but it is not a very secular place. I am one of a group of scholars of law and religion in the United States who have been working to find better ways to describe the natu…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…ago. Before mentioning migrants from Latin America traveling north to the United States in his speech to the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis spoke of Europe’s immigration crisis. “Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War,” he said. He will likely spend more time on this topic at the United Nations. People from Syria—but also Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere—are streaming into Europe…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s” of children to be abused. According to a New York Times editorial, “The United Nations panel went to the heart of the matter in rejecting the church officials’ claims that they were responsible for enforcing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child only within the geographical limits of Vatican City and not globally through their power over the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy.” Church officials and their conservative allies ar…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…or Equality; Church World Service, Immigration and Refugee Program; Clergy United; The Episcopal Church; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Standing on the Side of Love; the United Methodist Church; and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Even more religious leaders and groups have expressed support for broad LGBT equality, as evidenced by the mor…