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Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…izing the potential of what he has created. Now that we are just about halfway through the season, it is worth noting that Ron Moore and company have taken a slow, steady arc to reveal what is in store. Unlike Battlestar Galactica which started furiously, fraught, and with a big bang, Caprica’s slow steady progress will hopefully give way to defining plot twists, turns, and a more coherent explication of just what is at stake in creating this hybr…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…r. To see the future is hubris, the realm of prophets and prophecy. It’s always been dangerous, it’s always come at a cost. And now it’s a spectator sport! MHS: It is fun to watch. Nate Silver versus the New York Times versus Las Vegas. Who will do better?! AL: At one point, back before the reality of what it would mean had set in, I actually found myself rooting for Trump a little, just because it would melt the wings of these prophet-Icaruses. L…

Hijab: Culture, Custom, and Chaos

By Amina Wadud

…s the lesser sacrifice. I can actually say: I became Muslim because of the way I dressed. I also chose to cover my face: way back in the 70s, in the U.S. city of Philadelphia. But I was in retreat from the world as I knew it. I observed the niqab for four years before moving on to the next stage of my living faith. I am still moving, because at this age, I go out for regular errands with no scarf, after more than 35 years of covering by choice. In…

Bishops’ Attempt to Deny Communion to Biden Will Backfire Even More Spectacularly Than Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…clueless or offensive than this letter. Nor are there many more effective ways to turn people away from the Catholic community than this kind of presumptuous, fatuous writing unless it’s the tombstones to ‘the unborn’ that some Catholic churches place on their property. A fool’s errand like opposing same sex marriage and dissing a manifestly moral Catholic president shows a willingness to take one for the team with the expectation of rich rewards…

Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

By Anthea Butler

…,” in Pentecostal parlance — to see if she can still draw media attention away from her rivals. Gideon’s fleece refers to an account in Judges 6:33-40. Gideon sets fleece on a threshing floor, using it as a way of asking God for a sign whether or not to go into battle against the Midianites. God gives Gideon the sign to smite the Midianites and to do battle with his Baal-worshiping neighbors. Setting down Gideon’s fleece, then, in contemporary Pen…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…ion worker,” and “save them from the hell called Planned Parenthood.” In a way, it was the same sort of shift that crisis pregnancy centers had pioneered, presenting themselves as the kinder, gentler face of pro-life activism, eager to help women avoid the harmful choice of abortion. Similarly, the panel psychologized the issue, suggesting that abortion workers must be suffering in some way that leads them to work in the industry—that they come fr…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…uble Duty” brought comments on my Facebook page, which got lost due to the way the thread works. That was the one entry when I got the most responses, mostly in the form of thanks and agreement. Sara Farooqi’s comments lead to other comments; and that’s always good. As a post menopausal woman who was invited to lead the prayer in a public congregational worship, I can tell you that it is not the actual period that people fear (such that diva cups…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o it. It’s the ‘who am I to judge?’ pope, who doesn’t want to turn people away and instead wants to find a way to bring people in,” Mr. Thavis said. Speaking of the upcoming Synod on the family, Francis DeBernardo at New Ways Ministry has put together a bit of intelligence on the LGBT-related records of some of the bishops who will be attending: Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Paris: When France was debating marriage equality, he warned that the passa…

Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t extreme and tell me what I have to believe, that I can’t dress a certain way, obey my husband or I can’t have an abortion. Then I want to say, “Bugger off! You do your own thing but leave me alone!” Have you discovered that extremism is related to the brain? It almost certainly is. Extremism obviously involves the brain’s pleasure centers in some way because people love it. They feel so good when they tell that woman she can’t have an abortion…

Will Gay Rights Pave the Way for Decriminalizing Mormon Polygamy?

By Joanna Brooks

…nating to consider how the Brown case may shine a light on the complicated ways non-fundamentalist Mormons have managed our own relationship to polygamy. The extent of polygamy in Mormon history is often downplayed by LDS Church public relations representatives and even some apologetic Mormon scholars. Many Mormons do not admit publicly that polygamy remains an intact part of mainstream orthodox Mormon theology, and that contemporary LDS Church po…