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Crucifying the Prairie: An Eco-Theology of Resistance for Good Friday

By Jacob J. Erickson

…m an area called South Prairie, rural Minot) and then they might ask me if North Dakotans are as backwards as they seem. Or they’ll joke about my prairie home being a cold “flyover state” with nothing there, but “Mount Rushmore is there, isn’t it?” (It isn’t). Ninety-five percent of these friendly folks have never visited the state and never will. I usually smile, say something about how I loved growing up there, how beautiful and spiritual the la…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…clude cancer screenings. But none have been as stomach-lurching as a South Dakota bill that could make it legal to murder abortion providers. From a must-read Mother Jones article: A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, Hou…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…-limbed tragedy. The oil boom, driving a massive transformation of western North Dakota, makes the news for many reasons. But almost none of them are, in any obvious way, religious. Most recently there’s been talk of how regulation policies for shipping North Dakota crude may have contributed to the derailment and explosion of a train in West Virginia. What’s happening on the oil patch is, in essence, an environmental crisis. So it would make sens…

Appeals Court Upholds South Dakota Suicide Advisory

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the suicide advisory provision in South Dakota’s abortion law, which requires doctors to tell patients that there is a link between abortion and suicide. Because in fact there may be no such thing. A 2009 systematic review concluded that the most well-designed study of mental health outcomes and abortion suggested that abortion made little, if any, difference in overall mental health of women. Moreover, if there…

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…w can become the law of the land, is a paradox that goes unacknowledged by North’s obituarists. North believed that the Constitution proscribes the merger of church and state but that this proscription derives from the ban on religious tests for public office in Article 6 and that it’s far more significant than the First Amendment in this regard. In his view, only Christians of the right sort should be government officials. Thus, he considered the…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

South Dakota Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Urges Pastoral Endorsements

By Mark Bergen

On May 14, Gordon Howie, a Republican candidate for Governor in South Dakota, called on churches to rise in an act of defiant insurgency: buck federal law and openly endorse a candidate. Preferably him. His invitation, evocatively named the “Pulpit Challenge,” was answered affirmatively by at least one pastor. The Rapid City Journal reports that on Sunday, May 15, at Liberty Baptist Tabernacle, the parish minister, Rev. H. Wayne Williams, stated…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…