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Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…pete for attention. And they do so as part of a world Church. The church’s official name is Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), indicating the way in which they see themselves as part of the worldwide family of churches who look to the Archbishop of Canterbury as their “focus of unity.” Nigeria is hardly the only African country where Anglicanism is growing quickly. In the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a…

New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…document, the right wingers are now running for cover, claiming it is not official. “The pope didn’t say it,” just some little old Vatican group off on a left-wing bender—as if one word of this document (which is pregnant with papal quotations) could slip out of the Vatican by night without the pope’s full blessing. The popes are not without fault, of course, they have squandered their moral authority by binging on issues where they have no privi…

LDS Church Acknowledges Past Racism, Repudiates Racist Remarks

By Joanna Brooks

…st racism by individuals both inside and outside the Church. The statement officially abandons as “speculation” or “opinion” a number of rationale for the ban propounded as doctrine by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mormon leaders. The statement is also significant, say observers of Mormon history, because it may be the first time the Church has acknowledged that the priesthood ban did not originate with LDS Church founder Joseph Smith. Finally…

Religious Exemption for Contraception Under Health Care Law

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ly small minority of U.S. Catholics who agree with and follow the church’s official prohibition of artificial contraception… well, presumably you would not use those services. Ah, but what about the employers and their consciences? The religious exemption, whether it was intended to or not, essentially places the choice upon them: Do they want to be able to act as though contraception isn’t part of basic health care, that it’s a moral evil, and th…

May 21 Rapture Scheduled for 6 p.m.

By Lauri Lebo

…t? UPDATE: For beer drinkers, there’s also a drink for you. Evan Benn, the official beer taster for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, offered this: Stone Levitation Ale would be a no-brainer — a flavorful but not super strong craft beer that will help lift you up to meet your maker…Cocktail-wise, I don’t know if it fits the theme, but the drink that I’ve been seeing all over at fancy-schmancy cocktail bars is the Corpse Reviver No. 2. It’s a mix of gin…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…shrill in his efforts to stop the shift toward equality. This week, on his official blog, he wrote: “Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America—not in China or North Korea. In those countries, government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what the…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…ople of all faiths, and that his “behavior is inappropriate for any public official, much less one who is weighing a run for the presidency.” Of course religious people are free to have political rallies. But they shouldn’t be used to convert people, if they involve elected officials or otherwise have a government imprimatur, and if they are intended to influence legislation or policy, they should merely reflect the legislative or policy perspecti…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…can and Episcopal churches to join the Roman Catholic church en masse, the official spin was that the move was motivated by a desire for greater Christian unity—a wish, as Lewis put it, to “enter into full communion with the Holy See of Peter.” At the same time, the small flurry of press releases, letters, statements, and ecclesiological cheat sheets also insisted that the new arrangement for full communion with Rome would allow St. Luke’s to “con…

Olasky Concludes Gingrich Untrustworthy, Unredeemed

By Sarah Posner

…unconfirmable,” although there’s ample evidence that the press and many in official Washington were aware of Gingrich’s affair with his now-wife, Callista. Armey concluded to Olasky “that Gingrich had been extraordinarily reckless and had left himself open to pressure that the White House was willing to use. Such conduct, he suggested, means that Gingrich’s candidacy is not worthy of support.” Ouch! Olasky’s piling on here—regardless of whether th…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…n what they claim is the threat of shari’ah to the constitution. It was an official panel, in a main ballroom of the conference. Breger, along with Khan, were relegated to an unofficial panel, in a tiny room, on preserving religious freedom. There, Breger laid out why shari’ah law is no more scary than halacha, or Jewish law, and why conservatives and other Americans need not fear its infiltration into our courts which, Gaffney maintains, is happe…