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Evangelical Tells Beck He’s “Off The Reservation”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing Mormonism. They even read and ridiculed comments from people on Beck’s website, who indicated that they were Mormon. Decker said Beck has been “using terminology that Mormons manipulate. . . terms that have double meanings . . . and that now he’s getting into things right out of the Book of Mormonism itself.” Howse had been a big Beck (and David Barton) supporter—and Howse continues to believe that “Christians” should work with Beck when they…

Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?

By Mary E. Hunt

…second break with Catholic institutional action is found in the increasing number of Catholics living their faith according to their consciences, ignoring the Vatican entirely. At the recent memorial mass for William R. Callahan, one of the founding directors of the DC-area social justice-oriented Quixote Center, such new practices were in evidence. Bill Callahan was a Jesuit priest. A feminist before most men could even spell the word, he was dis…

“A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…long morning constitutionals for all parents; deep breaths of good country air; meals of dark bread from the old country and pints of Guinness; slow knee bends; trips to the seashore, and mineral tonic. This is all to the good, surely. As far as criticisms go… It’s a small thing, but I do have to wonder at the wanton disregard for capitalization conventions. Why, none other than Mr. Vander Plaats himself cited the Bible’s warning against times whe…

Gay, Black, Republican, Baptist Preacher, Rev. Peter Gomes, 1942-2011

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, asked for his autograph, and took snapshots with him. I admit, I did my fair share of fawning, and got my own souvenir photo. Gomes was gracious, kind, self-effacing, and profoundly funny. His demeanor was regal, but gentle, and approachable. His easy laugh and sly smile were infectious and put you immediately at ease. Hearing his speech to those assembled at GCN was to talk a walk on the grounds of Harvard in the Springtime. He was a breath of…

Bachmann Beats Palin at Christian Testimony

By Anthea Butler

…AR Christian mafia, and Bachmann’s earnest testimonies have sucked all the air out of Palin’s flimsy testimony. Bachmann and Perry both are hitting the perfect pitch of Republicanity, while Palin has missed the bus by trusting her story to a right-wing filmmaker. Judging by her weird appearance on last week’s Hannity, where she repeated her trademark phase “don’t retreat, reload,” Palin is in fact in retreat, while Bachmann is reloading her testim…

A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…plankton who litter the water like stars, flying fish who whiz through the air like speeding bullets, massive whales who playfully turn disruptive ocean flips in the dark of night (do whales really do that?). Lee’s digital tools allow him to generate images that would be impossible to capture on film. They allow his creatures to do things that they, in their actual leathery skins, might never do. And Lee seems to carefully project a kind of sacred…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…priests, but the manager of Vatican Radio angrily came in, cut me off the air, and started playing church music. The interview was over—but I slept very well that night knowing I hadn’t let a sacred moment pass by in silence. As a Catholic priest, I saw a grave injustice being done to women in my Church, and I could not remain silent. Excluding women from the priesthood is a grave injustice against women, against our Church, and against our God w…

Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican

By Anthea Butler

…The Irish Prime Minister’s impassioned rebuke is a welcome breath of fresh air from the stench that has wafted from the Tiber and the seat of Peter. No matter if Pope Benedict XVI has met with the abused; the continued, rampant malfeasance of the church with regard to quickly and decisively adjudicating sex abuse cases continues to erode its already waning moral and social authority. The Cloyne Report shows the depth of abuse, and more shockingly,…

Public Religion in a Post-Christian Age, Graduation Edition

By David Gushee

…the room? Or, given religious diversity, should schools try to maintain an air of resolute non-religiosity? As a college and seminary professor, and as a dad, I have spent a lot of time at graduations. I have attended private Christian high school and college graduations, public high school graduations, Baptist seminary graduations, post-Baptist university graduations, and more. Hours of having to listen to endless name-reading has given me plenty…

Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t

By T.F. Charlton

…a sports journalist with known, religiously-motivated homophobic views, on air to directly question him about his personal opinion of Collins’ Christian witness—in the process playing into popular narratives about black homophobia. As Peter Montgomery notes here on RD, Collins pointedly mentions that his parents “instilled Christian values” in him. He credits “the teachings of Jesus… particularly the ones that touch on tolerance and understanding,…