Religion UnpluggedLos turistas solían detenerse en Lima únicamente de camino a Cuzco y Machu Picchu. Hoy en día, se ha convertido en un destino con restaurantes de moda y edificios históricos restaurados que cuentan la historia de la “Ciudad de los Reyes”....
Religion UnpluggedTourists used to just stop in Lima on their way to Cuzco and Machu Picchu. These days, it has become a destination with trendy restaurants and restored historic buildings that tell the story of “The City Of Kings.” Founded in 1535 by Spanish...
Feminism and ReligionEvery year I dread this weekend that honors dead soldiers. Let me make it clear that I have lost relatives to wars – uncles I loved including my first cousin who was killed six weeks after arriving in Vietnam having just graduated from West Point....
Religion Unplugged(REVIEW) To understand post-Christian Western culture, watch “Hazbin Hotel.” As America continues to secularize and divide along religious and political lines, our culture is rewriting how we think about human nature and redemption. With its...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) In the end, Vance is a work in progress — as all Christians ought to be. The Veep never quite reconciled with his father before he died. But there’s a “second chance” with his long-troubled mother, now substance-free and happily part...
Religion News Service(RNS) — ‘We're a connector and a catalyzer, and not a denomination,’ its spokesperson said in an interview.
Religion News Service(RNS) — The new bestseller has been criticized for having a shallow understanding of religion. I disagree. 'Yesteryear' depicts how shallow American religion has actually become.
Du Mez CONNECTIONSDispatches from the ALA
Religion News Service(RNS) — 'As crazy as it sounds, God used virtual reality to call someone into that space to lay out the gospel in its fullness,' said Stewart Freeman, a former heavy VRChat user who rediscovered his faith through virtual reality.
Religion News ServiceKHIRBET AL-GHAZAL, Syria (AP) — Undav, who identifies as a Kurdish Yazidi, is the son of Yazidi refugees. His success is being celebrated by a small, insular community that has endured decades of oppression and violence.
Religion News Service(The Conversation) — The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
Religion News Service(The Conversation) — Landor 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 News Service(The Conversation) — From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.
Religion News ServicePHOENIX (AP) — Bateman previously claimed to have more than 20 "spiritual wives," including 10 girls under the age of 18. He testified in his own defense in the state case, telling jurors he would never harm the people he loves.
Religion News ServiceDALLAS (AP) — The State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, approved the list on a 9-5 vote following weeks of contentious debate that again put Texas at the center of wrangling over the role of religion in public schools.
Religion News Service(RNS) — While Ms. Rachel teaches through her songs that 'big feelings are OK,' she also demonstrates — like Lady Zaynab did — that women are the strongest leaders when they mobilize their grief and outrage, and love and compassion — toward...
The ConversationAmerican courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.
Political Theology“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ “For John came neither eating nor...
PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia PaleoJudaicia Religion UnpluggedAs colonists and Native nations navigated war, alliances, disease, displacement and competing claims to land, Christian missions became intertwined with politics and survival. Some Indigenous people rejected Christianity, others adapted it to...
Feminism and ReligionThis was originally posted on August 25, 2014 The suicide death of Robin Williams prompted me to reflect again on my own experience with depression and to share my story in the hope that it can help others. In my twenties, thirties, and forties, I...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) For more than two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of wins for plaintiffs seeking to protect their religious practices. On June 23, though, the majority delivered a defeat in this contentious area. Landor v. Louisiana...
Religion Unplugged(OPINION) Being an agnostic isn’t a bad thing. It’s almost unavoidable if you’re thinking seriously. There are just too many unknowns.
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PaleoJudaicia 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.
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...
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...