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The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…mage forecasts that Life’s Catholic coverage would differ from Time’s in a number of ways. First and most obviously, it depicts a woman; second and perhaps less so, it depicts work. The lives of Catholics, the picture says, do not require the stillness or the clerical luxury depicted in many of Time’s cover images of prelates and popes. Life’s cover images of lived-religion would continue with the then-famous Dionne sisters (the first known quintu…

The Faith Outreach Canard

By Sarah Posner

…Eleison Group, who the RNS article notes worked doing faith outreach on a number of Democratic campaigns in 2006 and 2008 but not in 2010. In both the RNS interview and in an article on Huffington Post, Sapp argues for a causal link between lackluster faith outreach in this election cycle and Democratic losses; his conclusion: “the results were disastrous.” To support this argument, Sapp claims the following: Compared to ’06, Democrats nationally…

55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

By Joanna Brooks

A new poll released today by the Salt Lake Tribune shows that among Utah Mormons surveyed, 55% believe it is possible for people who are attracted to members of the same sex to change their sexual orientation. Twenty-five percent of Utah Mormons reported being “unsure,” and 15% believed gay people could not voluntarily “change” their own sexual orientation. Among non-Mormon Utahns surveyed, 66% believed it was not possible for gay people to “chan…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…s, I have to settle my affairs before departure. A person cannot use their mortgage money to pay for hajj, but your mortgage does NOT have to be paid off in order to go. People get confused by this, because one of the pre-conditions is that one must be debt-free. That doesn’t mean I don’t have an amount due against my credit card (or my mortgage, if I still had one), but it means I have keep my payments up in accordance to my agreements. No overdu…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…ns notes at Think Progress: …if this sort of dissenting spirit was unique among modern American Catholics, one could plausibly argue that the United States has created an environment that bifurcates Catholics in unusual ways. But it’s not: In 2014, a global survey conducted by Univision found that most of the planet’s Catholics disagree with the church on birth control, abortion rights, divorce, and priestly celibacy. But of course what really div…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…e’s time, and with every step the earth has become tinier, its inhabitants more inconsequential, and, paradoxically, more ignorant. And with every outward step, as our universe and our ignorance grows, so do the number of potential space alien hideouts. So does the belief that there must be someone out there. So every time I read about the discovery of a new Earth-like planet or read about NASA’s upcoming Kepler planet-finding mission or watch a m…

Commies, Blacks, Jews, the UCC and Other Threats to America

By Daniel Schultz

…as Glenn Beck’s hatchet man. About the only thing these groups have in common is that they endorsed this rally. What, exactly, is the point of listing them all together? To make clear who Beck doesn’t like? To convince readers that the UCC, black Baptists and other justice-minded organizations form a fifth column for the Communists? I mean, this is like an updated enemies list dictated from beyond the grave by Richard Nixon. And that’s when it hi…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…the Burning Times (Lion, 2009). Halloween is also a good time to confront monsters. Monster Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 1994), a series of essays edited by Jeffrey Cohen, addresses this question: “Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them… What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?” The evangelical subculture is, in many senses, no different…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…this new popular trend of Islam in America. Some even made a considerable amount of money off of their version of the “I am your friendly neighborhood Muslim; and I am an American;” as if Muslims didn’t exist in America before they became spokespersons. Or maybe it is the “friendly” part. For surely Islam became erroneously equated with terrorism after September 11th. Don’t get me wrong, the attacks on American soil were terrorist attacks, and the…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…f Focus on the Family and other organizations actively strive to leave the most vulnerable among us exposed to continuous attack. The good news is that we don’t need a SWAT team. We just need quality education on sexuality and gender identity in our schools and more faithful and courageous preaching and teaching in our churches. Catholic theologian M. Shawn Copeland offers profound words to any individuals and churches seeking to wash their hands…