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Archive: Stephen Prothero
Religious freedom to the rescue
The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) is a federal statue enacted in 2000 by unanimous consent in both the House and the Senate. Its purpose is to safeguard the religious liberties of Americans, including groups whose places of worship are under fire by local zoning boards or nearby citizens.
By Stephen Prothero | July 20, 2010; 10:52 AM ET | Comments (6)
God is not One, and neither are the religions
Perhaps I am missing something, but I have yet to find a view of religious unity that does not reek of colonialism and empire.
By Stephen Prothero | July 8, 2010; 10:29 AM ET | Comments (114)
Unpaved streets and unanswered questions
One of the delicious things about heaven (at least as viewed from this side of death) is the questions it prompts. To say you hope for heaven is all well and good, but who is this "you"? Is it embodied? If so, does it age? If not, how old will we look?
By Stephen Prothero | March 22, 2010; 04:45 PM ET | Comments (6)
Can Sex Bring Us Closer to God?
All the world's religions seek to confine sexual intercourse to the institution of marriage, but none is as fearful of sexuality as is Christianity.
By Stephen Prothero | May 13, 2009; 02:25 PM ET | Comments (11)
An Instant Classic in American Civil Religion
Instead of saying precisely what a Mormon is, he said he was a Mormon and he challenged us to live up to the better angels of our nature by refusing to persecute him for it.
By Stephen Prothero | December 7, 2007; 04:13 AM ET | Comments (54)
The Almighty and the Middle East
One of the grave failures of this generation of American foreign policy makers is their blindness to the power of religion.
By Stephen Prothero | September 16, 2007; 09:43 AM ET | Comments (38)
Not Quite Mortal
Every year I tell my students that those who know, truly know, that they are going to die also know how to live.
By Stephen Prothero | May 20, 2007; 10:51 AM ET | Comments (14)
Another Amen For Religious Literacy
Those on the crazy right will say that only their religion can be taught in the public schools. Those on the crazy left will say that no religion is too much.
By Stephen Prothero | March 10, 2007; 12:18 AM ET | Comments (11)
There Is A Religious Test for the White House
Elections are about hopes and dreams and the containers of these hopes and dreams are people, rather than policies.
By Stephen Prothero | January 29, 2007; 10:25 AM ET | Comments (61)
Abrahamic America? A Label that Embraces But Also Excludes
I see both the Judeo-Christian model and the newer Judeo-Christian-Islamic one as rear-guard efforts to keep the Christian America model alive—efforts that will likely fail.
By Stephen Prothero | December 18, 2006; 12:20 PM ET | Comments (317)
Say Something!
If you don’t talk with your children about religion, they will assume it doesn’t mean anything to you
By Stephen Prothero | December 6, 2006; 05:15 PM ET | Comments (244)
