Religion Dispatches
Two monastic orders in rural Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto and Our Lady of Gethsemani, have made news recently for refusing to permit a gas company to install a pipeline across their property.
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American Jewish history is the history of Jewish grappling with the American (and Protestant) category of religion. At the moment, it’s not working out so well.
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Among other things, the Pew poll gives us the fascinating statistic that almost half of “Jews of no religion” are nonetheless believers.
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On being Jewish and atheist.
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Once again we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother with the details.
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I was most struck by one too-clever turn of phrase in the recent Pew Survey of U.S. Jews. The summary read, “believing in Jesus, however, is enough to place one beyond the pale: 60% of U.S. Jews say a person cannot be Jewish if he or she believes…
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Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer them, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness.
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In July 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women: “I think every single person has come out of this more comfortable in her skin, more sure of herself, more powerful.”
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Why did this ultimately tragic movement, led by a young white man, appeal to so many African-American women?
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