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A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…hops The second essay is by Peter Steinfels, former religion editor at the New York Times. Steinfels, who is hard right on abortion, has “more sympathy for the bishops,” which is an understatement. Brandishing hierarchical texts, Steinfels excoriates O’Brien for challenging “Catholic teaching at its root.” And there’s the rub. In place of the tripod of hierarchy, theologians, and sensus fidelism—which allows for mutual ongoing correction—Steinfels…

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…elationships. Economic relationships serve, here, to signify the whole humdrum world wherein you sell me an apple and I give you a unit of our common currency. Or where I say things using words that I know you know, because I hope that you will thereby understand what I’m getting at. Dollars for apples, words for comprehension, individuals doing stuff, and common mediums of exchange making the whole system move along. Authority doesn’t really ente…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…ement facing even steeper financial challenges, worsened by the recession. News of a resulting restructuring effort underway in the nation’s historic flagship ecumenical organization, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), is occasionally met with the query: “You mean it’s not dead yet?” Amid all this, some liberal observers voice a new concern, which Religion Dispatches’ editors share. Have desperate ecumenical Protestan…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…ped up reckoning with the relative merits of home and hospital births. The New York Times Magazine ran a piece on home birth trailblazer Ina May Gaskin, for example, while The Atlantic focused on low-tech births, and The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg looked at the risks of home births (which prompted this response on Slate). These articles reflect an emerging consensus that home birth has become more common and less countercultural, a consensus…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…tal classes for congregants in local churches and synagogues. But with its new Reform Divorce site, it intends to lobby for two new radically conservative divorce provisions: 1.) a “Mutual Consent” divorce law that would do away with the relatively painless divorces couples can attain without charging the other spouse with wrongdoing, and 2.) a “-Shared Parenting” clause, which would shift custody arrangements for children of divorced parents to r…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…many others. What alternate title would you give the book? It was called “Ruling the Unruly Body” for a long time. I still think that’s a great title for something. How do you feel about the cover? I love the visual metaphor and all it conveys about the book. And I love the little white cross at the top of the mountain. What’s your next book? I’m doing some research on a GLBT church in San Francisco and its response to HIV/AIDS. I’m pretty sure t…

Hagee Hangs On

By Bill Berkowitz

…was lecturing on one of the Jewish perspectives of the Holocaust that his words were twisted and used to attack him for being anti-Semitic.” Scheinberg also called Hagee “a world leader in his support of Israel.” Hagee and Scheinberg go way back. In a story entitled “Our Jewish Roots” published in JHMagazine, Hagee tells of a June 1978 visit to Israel where he “went… as a tourist and came home a Zionist.” When he returned home he decided to organ…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…ide is dissembling too much and people can sense it. People can sense the truth. Truth really does have some kind of ontological, existential superiority over lies and this is written in the Bible, in the Old Testament in particular. In the end, the ways of truth always triumph over the ways of wickedness, guile and lies. And with each day that passes, the ways of truth are more and more triumphant even though we are still behind bars and are like…

Were You Born Selfish?: An Interview with Frans de Waal

By Benjamin Hale

…hat drives you to have sex is not the reason why sex evolves. The same is true with the connection with empathy and altruism, and veneer theory trying to explain everything in selfish terms—the “selfish gene,” and all that kind of language. That’s a narrow way of looking at things. That’s a purely genetic, evolutionary way of looking at things that doesn’t cover human psychology very well. Why do people like to think of nature as being competitive…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…uck me as I was reading excerpts from Sunday’s sermons and articles in the New York Times that we know a great deal about Sunday’s thoughts and the thoughts of clergymen and editorial boards of denominational periodicals, but that little was written about the religious thoughts and lives of the men and women who went over to Europe to wage the war. This is one instance of a broader problem that spans any historical discipline—certain voices, usual…