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The Real Goal of Pro-Life Movement Support for Scott Brown: Kill Health Care Reform

By Sarah Posner

…ay in the Senate. Any attempt to shut out Sen. Brown from the legislative process including preventing him from casting a vote on health care reform circumvents this election and clearly denies the will of the people of Massachusetts. . . . Elections have consequences and the Democrats must understand that the consequences of a Sen. Brown victory mean it’s time to put a stop to the flawed government-run, pro-abortion health care program that’s be…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…een specially chosen by Him to lead the nation out of the “pit” of moral depravity represented by reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and a society in which women are no longer accepting their status as objects to be used primarily for male sexual gratification. Democracy, the rule of law, and the Enlightenment principles upon which the Constitution is based are no match for Moore’s God, whose will trumps all election results, and will someda…

Travolta Airlifts Scientology, Supplies, to Haiti

By Becky Garrison

…the guise of providing “pastoral care.” Their counseling services included promoting their hotline number on Fox News under the title “National Mental Health Assistance.” In 2002, Tom Cruise and executives from Scientology’s FASE (Foundation for the Advancement in Science and Education) launched “Downtown Medical” (also called “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project”). This facility offered FDNY firefighters and other recovery workers the…

Sacred&Profane: Wilco Worship and the “Churn” in American Religion

By Gary Laderman

…. Music plays a special role in human evolution and no doubt operates as a prime mover in the formation of communities, societies, and cultures through time and in the present. Any investigation of the American religious landscape must take music into account as a biological and sociological force of solidarity and group identity, along with its pervasive, longstanding role as a source for sacred life: crucial ingredients in the mix of dynamic, so…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…entation as well as the importance of religious loyalties. There are other problems with the NPR story which Schumacher-Matos still did not catch. For instance, the NPR ombudsman called Wyler’s therapy “a softer, conversational treatment that allowed him to return to his conservative Christian roots.” In addition to mislabeling Wyler’s church, Schumacher-Matos misunderstands Wyler’s therapy. At Religion Dispatches, Ted Cox and I gave brief descrip…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…anasia), vocations and ongoing formation (shoring up the rapidly declining number of priests and nuns) and, of course, religious freedom (Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who arranged Kim Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis, received two standing ovations from the bishops.). Then the debate turned to the USCCB’s quadrennial “Faithful Citizenship” voting guide. The bishops had voted earlier to revise the 2007 edition prepared for the 2008 election, whic…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…Brown Jordan, Interim President, Disciples Seminary Foundation, Associate Professor Practice of Ministry, Claremont School of Theology Rev. Melva L. Sampson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Practical Theology, Wake Forest University School of Divinity Rev. Michele E. Watkins, PhD, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego Rev. Brandon T. Maxwell, Dean of Students, Vice President for Enrollment & Stud…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…anczer comes at a time when federal agencies are taking a more proactive approach to prosecuting abuse in the Orthodox community. In Brooklyn last year, about 25 Orthodox men were arrested on sex abuse charges. This year in Lakewood, New Jersey, a predominantly Orthodox community, the local prosecutor has launched 29 sex crime investigations. According to law enforcement officials in New Jersey and New York, more Orthodox abuse victims are coming…

American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Five Stories to Watch in 2016

By Richard Flory

…more open and welcoming take on Catholicism, his embrace of anybody who approaches him, and his frankly fearless presentation of a much more friendly Catholicism, has many Catholics hoping for a “Francis effect” that will draw Catholic church dropouts back, or even attract new converts. I have my doubts that a newly resurgent Catholic Church will result from the Pope’s influence. There is just too much institutional inertia in how the Church is o…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…sm, Pat Robertson reads history through a lens of religious bias that interprets all practices and beliefs that he does not share as a pact with the devil, or in the case of the Wesleys, idolatry; in either case the result is the same—blame the victims. The material conditions of real Haitians and their history as a slave colony never intervene in the face of bad theology. And here story of the two catastrophes differs drastically. In fact, betwee…