anti-vaccine
Mississippi, under judge’s order, starts allowing religious exemptions for childhood vaccinations
By Emily Wagster Pettus — July 17, 2023
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — His ruling came in a lawsuit filed last year by several parents who said their religious beliefs have led them to keep their children unvaccinated and out of Mississippi schools.
At LA’s DisclosureFest, a milieu of New Age mysticism, capitalism and conspiracy talk
By Sam Kestenbaum — June 23, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The annual event is equal parts musical carnival, mystic be-in and merchandise swap meet.
The deadly dogmatism of Christian nationalism
By Samuel L. Perry — January 28, 2022
(RNS) — Christian nationalism is the leading predictor that white Americans are more dogmatic.
Pope denounces fake news about COVID, vaccines, urges truth
By Nicole Winfield — January 28, 2022
ROME (AP) — Francis met with Catholic journalists who have formed a fact-checking network to try to combat misinformation about the pandemic.
Judge dismisses challenge to Connecticut law ending religious vaccine exemption
By Susan Haigh — January 13, 2022
(AP) — U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton said the plaintiffs failed to prove state's decision to end the exemption was “motivated by any religious animus.”
Anti-vaxxism is the latest in America’s esoteric religions
By Mark Silk — January 5, 2022
(RNS) — As opposed to the exoteric religion of public health.
In eastern Germany, pastors push for shots despite protests
By Kirsten Grieshaber — December 28, 2021
CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Lutheran pastors across Saxony have used their sermons to promote vaccines as the most efficient way to end the pandemic.
It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year?
By Robert P. Jones — December 11, 2021
(RNS) — A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today.
Why ‘sorcery’ was the fastest-growing search term on Bible Gateway in 2021
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 2, 2021
(RNS) — The Greek word ‘pharmakeia’ has appeared in debates over COVID-19 prevention measures, particularly opposition by some charismatic and evangelical Christians to vaccines against the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
We owe it to the vulnerable to get vaccinated
By Jana Riess — September 21, 2021
(RNS) — Dr. Tyler Johnson says his Mormon religion ‘teaches me I have a moral obligation to seek out facts and to seek to understand the world as it is,’ which means rejecting vaccine conspiracy theories and misinformation.
What’s the law on vaccine exemptions? A religious liberty expert explains
By Douglas Laycock — September 15, 2021
(The Conversation) — Plenty of groups are offering religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but their legal basis isn’t as rock-solid as that might suggest.
Feucht, Locke and the like are a sideshow — quit letting them distract you
By Ed Stetzer — August 12, 2021
(RNS) — Since both are quick to cite their First Amendment rights, I’m going to use mine now to call Christians to a better way and implore the media to resist making them representative of the Christian faith. They are not.
As vaccine mandates spread, employers and colleges seek advice on religious exemptions
By Monique Parsons — August 9, 2021
(Interfaith America) — Secular and faith-based institutions alike are balancing religious protections against community health and safety, as well as the deep political divide.
Why refusing the COVID-19 vaccine isn’t just immoral – it’s ‘un-American’
By Christopher Beem — August 9, 2021
(The Conversation) — America’s founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking for the good of the whole, which is necessary for a free society.
In many COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,’ said Natalie Jackson, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute.
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