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Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…t’s a scandal that calls into question the moral standing and integrity of most—not all—Catholics today,” Marquette University moral theologian Dan Maguire told RD. To many, Catholic support for Trump feels like a repudiation of the Catholic social justice tradition. “Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and consequent election are rooted in fear and hate. This approach violates the gospel and Jesus’ commitment to the poor and marginalized. It threate…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…hich downplays the reality of LGBT experience). Still, my friend observed, most of the people she attends church with on Sundays simply believe being gay is an abomination. Change is very, very slow to come among LDS Church membership. More Mormons have rallied around Elder Packer’s hurtful speech than have carefully read the prepared official PR statement affirming LGBT humanity and dignity. Few have absorbed the nuances Church leaders have been…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…machines dispensed something closer to my U.S. limit. I’m sorry, but in almo*]}*st 40 years of travel to 40 countries, I have only once used travelers checks. They are supposed to be better protected. You can get them 100% replaced if lost or stolen, but only if you first write down each and every serial number. Then you have to keep this information somewhere that’s not the same somewhere you keep the checks. But then they really do NOT spend just l…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…de Catholicism less vibrant”: Over time, the Democratic Party has become almo*]}*st exclusively pro-choice: Even by 1992, the Catholic, pro-life Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey Sr. was shut out of speaking at Bill Clinton’s Democratic National Convention, and allegedly because of his efforts to restrict abortion in Pennsylvania. This sense of ideological homelessness is arguably responsible for the loss of distinctive Catholic identity among politicia…

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

By Paul Wallace

…nk, maybe the connection is out there somewhere. There is no scientific quest more religious than the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. But this outward search is, on a certain level, guaranteed to bring us back where we are. To illustrate, let us perform an interesting thought experiment. Let us place ourselves on Gliese 591g and turn those same telescopes around and observe us observing the universe. What a strange, strange sight. What a…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…is paragraph: On Thursday [Glenn] Beck warned that the march included Marxist, Communist and revolutionary groups. Among the organizations endorsing the march were the Communist Party USA, the United Church of Christ, Jewish Funds for Justice, the National Urban League, the National Baptist Convention, People for the American Way and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. My first reaction to this was to wonder why the Times is acting as Glenn B…

Halloween, Evangelicals, and the Macabre

By John W. Morehead

…se minority religions associated with it. In regards to the season itself, most evangelical churches will offer alternatives to church members, usually called “fall festivals,” since even using the term “Halloween” is frowned upon. At fall festivals kids will more or less do what other kids do on Halloween, though they’ll be costumed as Bible characters in an effort to present it as a distinct alternative. The rationale here, of course, is that Ha…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…capitalized on it to promote the “friendly neighborhood” variety. In fact, most of us lost and lost a great deal. That being said, I do however condemn terrorism. But I am not selective. I do not just condemn terrorism done by fellow Muslims; I condemn terrorism done against fellow Muslim—whether as a civil act of disobedience, or as a collective act of a powerful government. And because my condemnation of terrorism sits right there beside my cond…

Why Anti-Gay Bullying is a Theological Issue

By Cody J. Sanders

…stematic violence. It intends to silence and to destroy from within. While most of us will never be physically attacked by another human being, all of us know we are targets. A Theology of Anti-Gay Bullying Anti-gay bullying is a theological issue because it has a theological base. I find it difficult to believe that even those among us with a vibrant imagination can muster the creative energy to picture a reality in which anti-gay violence and bu…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…man who boldly put both a pope and “popery” on the cover of his magazine almo*]}*st ninety years ago: a Protestant missionary’s son who found himself in bed with the Church in more ways than one. For Henry Luce, there was of course the actual Catholic with whom he shared his home, his second wife Clare Boothe Luce, but there was also an unabashed affinity for the Olympian authority the Vatican represented—similar to the kind he imagined his publicatio…