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Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…comes from a Greek word meaning “shrine to the muse,” so the casual or not-so-casual flirtation with pagan form is central to their conception and design. What the Vatican’s “Profane museum” enacted were what I take to be some of the crucial conceptual detachments that gave birth to the modern. Visual materials were detached from textual materials. A museum detached from a Library. The museum went public even as the Library became more protective…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…the Pope as God’s mouthpiece on Earth—God’s Twitter handle if you will—the new communications technologies have become increasingly worrisome, clogging the pipes of communication with so much competing “data” that it’s difficult for religious truths to make it to the top of the faithful’s media feed. Indeed, Pope Benedict has seen mind-boggling changes in communications technologies in his brief period of service. It’s no wonder he’s tired. Benedi…

Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

By Joanna Brooks

…e Daily Beast reported that David Twede, one of the editors of Mormonthink.com, a website that addresses controversial issues in Mormon history and doctrine, was facing an LDS Church disciplinary council over “a series of articles he wrote this past week that were critical of Mitt Romney.” The Daily Beast linked to this article at Mormonthink.com, which suggests that Romney might be religiously obliged to take political instructions from Church l…

The Problem of Church History for Opponents of Divorce

By Benjamin Dueholm

…he Apostles and the first bishop of Rome. Karl Keating, editor of Catholic Answers, dumps her unceremoniously in the grave before Jesus even meets Peter. A bishop needs to be free to marry his church. And so two divorces, one in life and one in posterity, help anchor the theory and the imagery of sexual purity on which arguments like Spaemann’s rest. A better church and a better world would have honored these women; as it is, their involuntary sac…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…the United States the vast majority of our medical resources go towards end-of-life care, using medicine, the law, philosophy, ethics, and religion as lenses through which she helps her reader understand difficult questions about what death is, how death should happen, and how death shouldn’t. The Good Death has as a central sentiment that “Because of medical developments, we’ve gotten away from caring for our dying, from seeing death up close… [s…

The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…ions to RD, appeared just four weeks after RD’s launch in early 2008. His new book, God In Proof, is the story of “the search for proofs for God’s existence”—how dozens of world-historical thinkers have applied logic and reason to questions of faith. Schneider summarizes the arguments put forward by ancient Greeks, early Christians, medieval Muslims and Jews, and the grand figures of the Enlightenment, in addition to more recent arguments, like I…

Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

By Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper

…right factions of the West for more than 15 years. These include the up-and-coming New Apostolic Reformation, extreme elements of the anti-abortion movement, and religiously-animated parts of the Patriot movement. He’s a former officer in the Army and the National Guard, who served in Bosnia and Iraq and has a remarkable post-military resume that established his credentials as a leader in both the Christian Right and the Patriot movement. He was a…

Awakening, Counter-Awakening, and the End of Church

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the gay couple as welcome as the personhood of the straight couple? That becomes a test of the awakening. It’s not simply what’s your political position about the rights of these people, but are these people really people? And are they people with their full wisdom, their full experience, their full sense of who they are? Are they really, truly welcomed into the deepest realms of making community? What do you believe this new awakening will look…

Should Politicians Say God Has All the Answers?

By Sarah Posner

…te of Arkansas, is out with a new ad that Ed Kilgore thinks is aimed at pre-Christian right evangelicals who will like the humility in his message that the “Bible teaches us no one has all the answers. Only God does. And neither political party is always right.” Get that? Meaning that sometimes, you know, the Republicans are right. Like when Pryor joined them in voting against an amendment that would have closed a background check loophole in gun…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…ly values that was once used by the United States to sustain Christian anti-Communist attitudes underlies Putin’s war on the “woke” West.[15] The question is not how this happened. We know how. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. evangelicals flooded Russia just as the country was rebuilding its economy and culture and as the ties between Russian political and religious institutions were, once again, growing stronger. This ideological exc…