Feminism and ReligionAmerican media and the Taliban in Afghanistan have both long disparaged Islam regarding the status of women. I would like not only to correct the contention that women are second-class, but to provide for you an argument that Islam is, based on our...
Religion News ServiceThe release of a new report promoting an inclusive, pluralistic vision of this foundational American value.
Religion News ServiceDILLEY, Texas (RNS and Texas Tribune) — Completing a pilgrimage from the Texas site of a World War II internment camp, interfaith activists said history is repeating itself at the nation's only family detention facility.
ReligionProfI confess to giving this post a clickbait sort of title in calling it “Generative AI is nothing new.” The statement is true in important ways, however, even if it requires clarification. Let me explain. In a recent conversation I had with some...
Religion News Service(RNS) — Nearly half of Americans who left religion cite the mistreatment or rejection of LGBTQ+ people as an important reason. But how do the LGBTQ+ people who stay find healing?
Good Faith MediaCoined by Robin DiAngelo, “white fragility” refers to a state in which even a minimal amount of “racial” stress becomes intolerable to individuals racialized as white, triggering defensive behaviors. I happen to think it’s nonsense. The post The...
Good Faith MediaWhen Vines released God and the Gay Christian in 2014, it was both revolutionary and deeply healing for queer Christians who had long struggled to reconcile their queerness with their faith. The post Good Fruit?: A Response to Matthew Vines’...
PaleoJudaicia Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on May 17, 2019 Carol Christ wrote about gift economy on this blog in 2013, and I am taken by her story of the woman who brought raisins or cracked nuts to the group even though she had very little. In beginning to...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) When I was in graduate school our program required each student to have two majors and a minor field. I knew one of my major fields was going to be American politics — that was an easy choice. I was also made aware that it was easier...
Canopy ForumSecular-Christian Social Justice: Climate, Race, and Gender in the 21st CenturyNoa Ben-Asher Material excerpted from Secular-Christian Social Justice: Climate, Race, and Gender in the 21st Century by Noa Ben-Asher © 2026 by New York University...
Religion News Service(RNS) — Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told RNS that he sees evidence of UFOs in the Bible.
Religion News Service(RNS) — Five ways that faith has showed up during the 2026 World Cup.
ReligionProfIntroduction This summer’s Enoch Seminar meeting on the topic of Christology within Judaism is sure to be remembered as a key moment in this area of study. We gathered in Rome at the Waldensian School of Theology. While I have been involved in a...
Religion News ServiceVATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV opened a Vatican summit of cardinals by urging humanity to resolve conflicts 'as human beings and not as beasts.'
Religion News Service(RNS) — ‘The evidence that the resolutions provide is very clear in terms of the kind of endorsement of the ideas of Christian nationalism that are present in the denomination,’ said Nancy Ammerman.
Religion News Service(RNS) — The opening of Obama’s presidential museum revealed how hope, dignity, empathy and faith continue to inspire a new generation of leaders.
The Domination ChroniclesEpisode 23: Bishops, Papal Bulls, and the Problem of Domination
An und für sichI’ve not read everything that sci-fi/fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold has written, but from what I have read, she sure loves to set a fantasy world in a key site of the emergence of the modern racial structures whilst trying to imagine what it...
Religion News Service(RNS) — Ordinary families are being asked to carry the costs of an energy system that enriches a few while leaving communities everywhere vulnerable to conflict, instability and rising prices.
Religion News ServiceThe Sukkah Foundation
The ConversationFrom the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.
The ConversationLandor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect those rights.
Religion UnpluggedWeekend Plug-in columnist Bobby Ross Jr. is passionate about Major League Baseball. In recent years, his love for the game has inspired him to delve into the trend of MLB teams hosting faith days.
Religion UnpluggedThe Texas Rangers’ recent “Faith and Family Day” was not the team’s first. But for multiple reasons, the latest one became a culture war flashpoint — stirring debate across the country and on social media, sparking comments by everyone from the...
Du Mez CONNECTIONSRecasting faithfulness in an age of division
PaleoJudaicia Good Faith MediaThe time is now for people of good faith to demand that tech companies and politicians tap the brakes on AI. The post The Race for AI Leads to a Brick Wall appeared first on Good Faith Media.
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on June 24, 2022 * Fecundity: the ability to produce an abundance of new growth, but also the ability to produce new ideas And now in the hour of our discontent, we are asked to worry about fecundity. I suppose we can...
Religion UnpluggedBethany Christian Services has reversed its 2021 policy allowing LGBTQ couples to foster and adopt, reaffirming a traditional Christian definition of marriage. The decision raises questions about religious liberty, employment and legal...
Religion Unplugged(REVIEW) “Just One More” has its heart in the right place. But it is held back by a preachy Christian filmmaking culture that leans on telling, not showing.
Canopy ForumTwentieth-Century Redlining Map from the National Archives. In the United States, the narrative of belonging has long been told through access to housing and home. Although the over-regulation of physical residences, presence of racial...
Sowing the SeedOne of the things I love about the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama is our culture of student research. I have the pleasure of advising Sierra Ruden in our Religion in Culture MA program. Sierra has been using discourse...
Political TheologyWith Pope Leo's recent declaration of just war being "outdated," Eli McCarthy pens a letter from just war theory, asking to be let go. Source
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Clashing rainbow symbols recently created a storm in Major League Baseball when powers wielded by team owners clashed with the religious beliefs of players. The big question: Can the biblical rainbow coexist on the same Pride Night...
Good Faith MediaWe are being asked to trust innovation without receiving any corresponding covenant from those who profit most from it. The post No Rainbow: AI, Creative Destruction, and the Theology Silicon Valley Forgot appeared first on Good Faith Media.
Good Faith MediaThe Chinese government has detained two leaders of a Christian congregation that has long been the target of the country’s communist regime. The post Chinese Officials Continue Latest Wave of Religious Repression appeared first on Good Faith Media.
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on May 15, 2020 I began to follow Kimberlé Crenshaw a little more than five years ago when I first learned of her theory of intersectionality as a more concise description of oppressions stemming from race, age, gender,...
Religion Unplugged(REVIEW) Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Disclosure Day” asks how people of faith would deal with finding out aliens are real. Sadly, one gets the distinct impression that Spielberg didn’t talk to any religious people when deciding his...
Religion UnpluggedA federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit accusing Texas megachurch Gateway Church and former senior pastor Robert Morris of misrepresenting tithing expenditures, marking a significant legal victory for the scandal-plagued congregation.
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Contending ModernitiesWhat does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story? The post Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1) appeared first on Contending...
Religion UnpluggedA Rastafarian lost his challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court to seek monetary damages against Louisiana prison guards who forcibly shaved his head, in a case that saw the trio of liberal justices upholding religious liberty.
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraA study of religious life in Queens suggests that pluralism works not by erasing difference but by letting communities live side by side The post How Babel Thrives first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.
Religion and PoliticsA study of religious life in Queens suggests that pluralism works not by erasing difference but by letting communities live side by side The post How Babel Thrives first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.