Law and Order: R.I.P.
Religion played a leading role.
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Lesbian Panic Reaches Apogee With Kagan Rumors
Bizarre rumblings from the right about SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan remind us that religion, politics, and sexuality are an inharmonious blend. Add education (think lesbian teachers) and you get full-on cacophony.
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Taxes, War, and Religion: Queering the 1040
On yearning for a world where taxes go to pay for education, for equal rights, and for leveling the playing field. Taxes for justice? How incredibly radical.
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Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood
An order of queer nuns, founded in San Francisco thirty-one years ago, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is now a full-fledged pastoral and charitable organization, having given away more than a million dollars. They’ve also raised pioneers in LGBT and AIDS/HIV rights to sainthood, creating their own holy calendar.
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Beyond Radical: Mary Daly, Feminist Theologian, Changed Worlds
Mary Daly, who passed away this Sunday, January 3, at 81-years-old, was among feminism’s strongest prophetic voices—an enormously influential, and controversial, iconoclast.
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Patron Saint of AIDS/HIV To Be Canonized
Father Damien de Veuster was a Belgian priest who ministered to a community of exiles on the island of Molokai. He has been, for many years, the unofficial patron saint of AIDS/HIV, a disease that has a history of misunderstanding akin to that of the illness he himself died of—Hansen’s disease, or leprosy.
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This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist
A recent study is making headlines with the finding that certain college majors, most notably those in the humanities and social sciences, are likely to turn students into godless nihilists. Why is this such a big deal?
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Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough
Progressive religion, especially in its interfaith aspects, must help in meeting the challenges of AIDS; but we need to take seriously the questions that secularists raise about the risks and problems associated with these efforts.
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Religion vs. Girls’ Education
Cultural and religious forces are often arrayed against girls when it comes to the right to education. Religion, in particular—whether it’s Islamic legal law or an evangelical Christian aversion to evolution—is often evoked to bar girls from school.
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Court Rules: Feminism is Not a Religion
When an Ivy League women’s studies department is sued for promoting the idea that women are divine princesses and men are minions of Satan, we are reminded that the act of defining religion is important work.
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