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A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…would have revealed that this is actually a symbol in search of a reality. Boston University professor David Frankfurter, in his award-winning 2006 book Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History, argues that, when we apply the most rigorous standard of historical scholarship to allegations of Satanic evil conspiracies and rituals like that of the “black mass,” we find that “no evidence has ever been found to verify…

Santorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance

By Sarah Posner

…During the almost two years since the clergy sexual abuse scandal broke in Boston, most of the attention has been drawn to groups like Boston-based Voice of the Faithful that sprang up in response to the grim stories that seemed to be breaking almost daily. Outraged laity took to the streets and rose up in the pews, withholding contributions, demanding meetings with bishops whose authority seemed to be evaporating by the hour. Obscured by all of t…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ng remark about Nicholson’s daughter during her recital. • March 11, 1908, Boston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Bailey Hardee was shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston. Weed then turned the gun on herself and committed suicide. • April 15, 1908, Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. C.O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute…

LGBTQ Group to March in St. Patty Parade… Good News, Right?

By Darnell Moore

…bodies will be on display, but their identities will not. According to the Boston Globe, Tim Duross, one of the parade coordinators stated, “We said, ‘You’re a great organization, you do wonderful things for people, and therefore we’d be happy to have you in our parade. But we’d rather you just wish everybody a happy St. Patrick’s Day and left it with that.’” For some, like Quincey Roberts, a co-founder of Boston’s Hispanic Black Gay Coalition, th…

Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End

By Anthea Butler

…and around the world. The sexual abuse scandal the Globe uncovered in the Boston Archdiocese, which sparked similar exposes around the country, rocked the American Catholic Church, bankrupted dioceses, and even resulted in the murder of a notorious pedophile priest. The reporting shined a bright light on travesties the Vatican wanted kept in the dark: suicides, abuse, and shattered lives of children and adults who suffered the abuse—the product o…

What’s Eating Mitt Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…interviewed members of the Mormon congregations (or “wards”) Romney led in Boston. They remembered him, Stack recalls, as a full human being: someone who gave his time generously to church service but had trouble remembering names; he couldn’t tell a joke, but he did attempt a Michael Jackson-style moonwalk. On issues of gender, Romney made some mistakes, but also took steps to improve his relationship with Boston’s strong Mormon feminist communit…

“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…s 48 chapters in 32 states and 2 countries it is not well received here in Boston, one of the most gay-friendly, crime-ridden cities in the country. “I don’t believe arming ourselves is a sustainable response to a subculture of hate towards homosexuality. We are not going to settle our scores as a community by having a shoot-out at the OK Corral,” stated Sue Hyde of the Boston office of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to Southern Voices in…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…he First Amendment does it say ‘Separation of Church and State.’” But AU’s Boston believes experts such as Barton, Dreisbach, and Phillips are being less literal-minded and more disingenuous. “They use it deliberately because it has superficial appeal to people who just don’t think things through,” he said. “The polls have never shown great Constitutional literacy in this country, right down to knowing the rights spelled out in the First Amendment…

‘Religious Liberty’ and the Origins of the Evangelical Persecution Complex

By Randall J. Stephens

…udiate its founder and director.” Immediately after the rally, Hargis told Boston’s CBS Radio affiliate that there was more political and religious freedom in Oxford, Mississippi, than there was in Boston. A similar discourse of embattlement and doom predominates today. Christian psychologist and childcare expert James Dobson recently warned: “barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of…

Why Trumpvangelicals Don’t Need Ted Cruz: Conservative Christianity’s Authoritarian Streak

By Chrissy Stroop

…authoritarian strain in the Religious Right,” most commentators, including Boston himself, seem to be operating on the false assumption that support for Trump is somehow out of keeping with “real” conservative Christianity. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump: Two Christian Failures, One Authoritarian Ethos Progressive evangelical commentator David Gushee has recently described evangelical support for Ted Cruz and Trump as “two very different kinds of failu…