White Christians increasingly appear to support democracy only as long as they’re in charge of running it, author and researcher Robert P. Jones said in one of his most candid interviews to date. Jones, founder of Public Religion Research Institute…
From engravings to ultrasound: The politics of imaging the womb
Imaging technology’s impact on views of fetal and maternal personhood is as much about the surrounding political and scientific context as it is about the technology itself.
Did Richard Dawkins hand creationists their next school strategy?
The idea that Darwinism leads one to atheism informs much of the so-called “conflict” of science and religion. The facts are simply not on its side. Nonetheless it serves as a point of consensus to attack a range of interpretations.
Cafeteria Christianity in the age of social media: What’s old is new again
It is safe to say that “we” pick and choose among religious tenets and practices because “we” are human and that is what humans do.
The new God-fearers (formerly known as the Nones) and where to find them
The spiritual-but-not-religious subset of Nones haven’t given up on God (whoever or whatever they conceive God to be). Their search for the divine has simply broadened beyond traditional churches.
The Sanders insurgency: A return to the ‘secular sacred’?
The Sanders phenomenon is ostensibly secular, but it has a lot in common with what historian Steve Fraser calls the “secular sacred” moral center of 19th-century resistance to capitalism’s amoral despoilers.
Women are leaving church, and the reason seems clear
The years that women’s church attendance began to decline are the very years when religious leaders in the Catholic Church and the evangelical movement fused religion with the culture wars.
Can the Religious Left be effective again? Short answer: No.
The vital beating heart of the religious left isn’t particularly interested in partisan politics. They’d much rather focus on developing social capital in strong communities.
‘Excruciatingly different’ Mississippi religious liberty law specifies beliefs
Most of the religious freedom laws privilege religion over non-religion, but the Mississippi law also privileges religion over religion, he explained. He called that additional step a “deadly mixture of ignorance and hubris.”