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True or False: Less Religion Means Greater Diversity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Current Population Survey (CPS) Database, accessed Feb. 6, 2014 at http://www.census.gov/cps/. Population sums shown are in thousands.] What this means in raw numbers is that the 30% of Millennials who are religiously unaffiliated (15.86 million) are a somewhat smaller group than the 22% of GenXers (17.95 million) who are unaffiliated. Further, in terms of percentages, twice as many 18 to 29 year olds (31%) as 50-64 year olds (11%) is unaffiliate…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…ight: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those In-Between. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJTonrzXTJs Anita Little: In the first episode, Aunt Lydia utters the chilling line, “Ordinary is just what you’re used to. This may not seem ordinary to you right now, but after a time it will.” This reminds me of the debates around normalizing Trump’s presidency. And it makes me wonder what we can expect. Will we become numb? Complacent? Kaya Oakes…

Jim Wallis Rejects 1996 Pro-Life Declaration

By Sarah Posner

…Here’s the background on how all this came about: earlier this month, AlterNet’s Adele Stan, reacting to Wallis’ “Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform,” argued that Wallis was, despite his protestations to the contrary, aiming to derail health care reform by insisting on no federal funding for abortion. Frances Kissling made the same argument in Salon, noting that after a conference call with religious activists on health care reform, Wallis s…

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

…shioners to pray for this effort as well. More information can be found at www.usccb.org/healthcare. To be announced at all Masses on the weekend when the Bulletin Insert is distributed: Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception until natural death. However, all curre…

AP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”

By Ira Chernus

…been studying presidential speeches for a long time, I impulsively ran to www.whitehouse.gov to get the full text, which the president read as his weekly radio address on the day before Easter. I don’t know how many people actually listen to these short weekly radio addresses. My hunch is that it’s more than those of us sheltered in university-town enclaves might think. Here’s a bit of what Bush said: Easter is a time when we “pause to remember a…

The Papal Prayer Machine

By Peter Manseau

…tar. While some accounts, such as @request_prayers and its affiliated site www.prayerrequest.com, are crowdsourced, others have volunteer prayer teams standing by. @OurPrayer, the prayer request handle for Guideposts magazine, offers a description of its service that could serve as a script for heaven’s own automated telephone response system: “Your prayer concerns are important to us,” OurPrayer.org says, “and that’s why each and every prayer req…

The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them

By Carlos Wilton

…h for the divine has simply broadened beyond traditional churches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEu2MH3J0qg A great many Nones are the spiritual progeny of the cheerful, well-dressed parade of Eisenhower-era churchgoers: fathers in their Mad Men suits, mothers in their pert hats and white gloves. They are Dick, Jane and Sally from the elementary-school readers, now with children and grandchildren of their own. (“See Dick. See Dick run. See Dick…

8 Great Hanukkah Clips from TV

By Michael J. Altman

…e Daily Show with Jon Stewart offers its best Hanukah moments: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – Best Hanukkah Moments Mash-up www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor The Daily Show on Facebook …

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…ater pardoned by Ronald Reagan. But the man knew what he spoke of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loT_pYzi3Vw In sharp contrast to the bleakness of “Mama Tried” stands the deep hope of the greatest Christmas song ever written, “If We Make It Through December,” with its trusting assertion “I plan to be in a warmer town come summertime.” Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to. You couldn’t listen to a line like tha…

Confronting the Abusive Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools

By Philip Arnold

…Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide and a public conversation with Kevin Annett. Reverend Annett started his first ministry for the United Church of Canada (UCC) on Vancouver Island in the 1980s. He immediately noticed that in spite of the large Native American population in the community, none of them attended his church. He made a concerted effort to reach out and listen to their stories, and was shocked to learn that UCC-run boarding schools, a…