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I Would Also Like a Splinter Scouting Organization, Please

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s health issues which some people deal with. 3) Learned about some other GSUSA connections they took moral exception to, like individual GSUSA Councils’ partnerships with local Planned Parenthood affiliates; some GSUSA materials which contained a generally-positive reference to a play (“Simply Maria,” by Josefina Lopez) that voices criticisms of patriarchal religious tradition; and some other sexual health materials that were more graphic than the…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…in Laden, crowds almost instantly formed outside the White House chanting “USA! USA!.” Depending on whom you believe, this reaction was either an unsettling display of vengeance directed against a relic of Cold War alliances who no longer had much cachet in most of the Arab world, or it was an understandable existential catharsis; a healthy celebration of patriotism that was more about celebrating “us” rather than denigrating “them.” The day after…

Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine

By Adam Gregerman

…ncluding those in which Jews suffered terribly, are adduced as well: “the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition… genocides and ethnic cleansing.” In these events, the statement notes, people used Scripture to “elevate one people or one race over another,” and “to support conquest and oppression.” It then compares these horrors with Israeli policies, often in identical language. The choice of these pedigrees for the modern conflict, as well as their at…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…bout whether anti-LGBT laws and rhetoric lead to violence. Yesterday’s New York Times lists some of the more horrific statements made by Christian pastors, like Tempe, Arizona’s Steven L. Anderson, whose only objection to the tragedy was that “they should have been executed by a righteous government.” Both conservative religious figures and politicians have offered their condolences to survivors and family members of the Pulse victims, but LGBT ac…

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e, starting with the title, “The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word,” made clear that the Vatican did not intend to engage in the sort of wide interactivity, distribution of authority, and mashing of diverse perspectives that is characteristic of the Web 2.0 world. The message makes clear that the task of proclaiming the Word of God belongs primarily to priests, and that they must be trained to be…

Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr

By Karen E. Park

…nsibility” and “an act of love.” But for those who follow Cardinal Burke, only the cell lines of a human embryo aborted over half a century ago matter, not the lives of hundreds of millions of people the world over who can be saved by vaccination today….

Turn Off, Slow Down, Drop In: The Digital Generation Reinvents the Sabbath

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s Schevitz. But this is not always the case. As Schoenfeld notes, “If you live in an isolated, rural area where there is not a Jewish community, not driving a car on Shabbat has a very different effect in terms of your connections to others than it does for someone in a city. That doesn’t mean you don’t observe the law, but that observance will mean different things in different places and times.” Blaming Technology for a Human Failing? Likewise…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…addition to academics, the book will appeal to anyone interested in Reconstruction-era politics and culture, the widespread belief in ghosts and spirits in America, the politics of race, African American religions, and New Orleans and/or Atlantic world history. I hope the book will be assigned in undergraduate and graduate classes, especially undergraduate. Beyond the academy and its classrooms, A Luminous Brotherhood will bring an academic analys…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ane wrote in his 2008 book The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right’s Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court. Regardless of how many “culture war” skirmishes are fought over abortion, gay marriage, or stem-cell research in the coming four years, for the religious right, the battle over President Barack Obama’s judicial appointments takes precedence. When you hear conservatives say that they support “strict constructionist,” and oppose “judicial…

#PrayForBoston: Prayer as a Meme

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the National Day of Prayer in 2010, I argued that what was then the really new news that the population of the religiously unaffiliated had doubled since the early 1990s rendered such a national observance “obsolete.” I opined in the piece that a government-sponsored National Day of Prayer may not be appropriate or Constitutional, but it fails most because, as a civic and as a spiritual event, it’s about as culturally relevant to the developing ma…