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Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…me, embodies Catholic commitment to excellence and inclusivity. Maybe next year the president will just stroll up North Capitol Street and get his honorary degree from the Trinity women. But this year he has to “win one for The Gipper.” I only hope that Notre Dame people of many opinions will recognize that democracy is not a game and education is not a football—even as the band plays on. What though the odds be great or small, Old Notre Dame will…

Bishop Among Those “Outed” by Ugandan Tabloid

By Jocelyn Edwards

…ed by Rolling Stone aren’t the only homosexuals to be harassed in the past year. SMUG has documented 20 cases of gays attacked and 17 arrested in the year since the anti-gay legislation was proposed, though Mugisha suspects that the actual numbers may be much higher. Sitting in his office in an unmarked house in a Kampala suburb, Mugisha explains that the debate over the proposed law has increased the profile of gays and lesbians and polarized opi…

2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ren—forced them to tone down their accolades for Putin a bit over the last year. Putin’s Russia is their utopia; they imagine it as a White, conservative Christian promised land, with a strong authoritarian leader (no matter how accurate this portrayal actually is). They see it as something to be aspired to, not reviled. Christian nationalism was a big theme at this year’s CPAC, from Mike Lindell yelling about the “greatest revival of Jesus Christ…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ken system empowered to lead an even more broken nation. I worry that next year, the light will not return, and “the warm bouquets of air” will prove instead to be icy cold, stinging any hand that reaches out to engage. Faith for the Faithless When I was a child, the Christmas Eve service at my family’s Lutheran church was always my favorite service of the year. The candles, the carols, and the quiet reverence soothed my soul, even as I drove myse…

Faith-Based Anniversary: Has Anything Changed?

By Sarah Posner

…h requires that each of its quarterly meetings be open to the public. Last year, after it was created, many watchdogs also had objected to assigning the Council the task of providing policy advice to the president. The Council is currently preparing its recommendations to the president, but according to Melissa Rogers of Wake Forest Divinity School and the chair of the Council, the drafts are not available to the public but the final recommendatio…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…eration and mutual respect. We have made great progress together in recent years, and we will keep striving to maintain strong nation-to-nation relationships, strengthen tribal sovereignty, and help all our communities thrive.” This year’s proclamation omitted any reference to the violence inflicted upon Native Americans, instead calling such focus “revisionist history” meant to “erase Christopher Columbus from our national heritage.” In a year fi…

This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.

By Haroon Moghul

…; sex; buying things made in China we’ll only use one evening of an entire year and then discarding; designing ever more provocative and offensive products; pumpkins in (and on) everything. Otherwise this great American project falls apart, and we might as well live in the world of The Man in the High Castle. Not only that, but Halloween should be a goldmine for people of color. It’s the only time of year our toxic reputation is any kind of asset….

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…om repressive laws and conservative Catholicism, including the repeal this year of a law that criminalized the vilification of religion “by words, gestures, written matter, whther printed or not, or pictures or by some other visible means.” According to the Times of Malta, Earlier this year, a Church position paper had stirred up controversy after its authors had argued that a ban on gay conversion therapy would violate a person’s right to receive…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…he law school received accreditation from the America Bar Association last year. The Foundations class is unlike anything offered at secular law schools, its purpose being to guide students toward a “Christian worldview” of the law. In the 2008-09 academic year, the required texts included David Barton’s Original Intent, which Barton’s website describes as “essential resource for anyone interested in our nation’s religious heritage and the Founder…

Defending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. Giving to charitable organizations has continued todecline for the third year. Those charities hit the hardest? Those trying to help the hungry and homeless, according to Giving USA. As the giving decreases, the pain increases as nearly 47.4 million people live in poverty and some 3.5 million Americans are homeless in a given year. My other concerns come from Vest himself, who, in the course of his 700 Club interview made it clear that part of h…