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

By Sarah Posner

…Warfare conference, Mpofu seemed to believe that God was trying to send a sign through my presence there (and indeed by the fact that she, Bourland, and I all happened to wear black and white outfits on the same day). In reality, I had interviewed Mpofu by Skype when she was still in Harare, and she had invited me to the Kentucky conference. Even though she knew I am not a Christian, Mpofu asked me to come forward so she could lay hands on me. I…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…nunciated in the Manhattan Declaration) would take on Cain is significant. Significant not so much because the Islamophobic elements in the conservative movement would suddenly sit up and say, “gee, all this anti-Muslim stuff is un-American, isn’t it?” but because it demonstrates, once again, that the conservative movement is at war with itself over Islamophobia. (Note that the 2012 presidential aspirants, not just Cain, are pandering to the Islam…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…portant take-home message for readers? In spite of efforts to downplay the significance of the Second Vatican Council, for many American Catholics it provided the theological justifications to demand sophisticated religious education, to engage ritually in the sacraments, to be accepting of non-Catholics, and to uphold cultural pluralism. It gave Catholics permission to publicly and constructively express disagreement and dissent, and most importa…

A Better Form of Atheism: Rescuing the Christian Tradition from Religion

By Emily Manuel

…, that we must owe him obedience. When we aren’t obedient to him, that’s a sign of disrespect; and God must somehow show that he is to be taken seriously, and so we need to make restitution for the fact that we’ve dishonored him. Not a particularly attractive theory, and it’s one I’ve been very critical of, so I’ve tried to come up with an alternative. In contrast, you seek to make atonement a social-relational bond. What do you mean by that? For…

A Tea Party Case Study: Jacksonville’s Divisive Mayoral Race

By Julie Ingersoll

…ed in senior citizens to the polls to vote and helped them do so.” Oooohh. Signs? Busses? Rides to the polls? Signing people up to vote? So let me get this right: she, and the chorus of fawning commenters on her blog, are worried that some of our neighbors who haven’t traditionally voted because they find it difficult to do so (senior citizens? really?) will be encouraged (even helped?) by “outsiders” to exercise their rights of citizenship? Or ma…

King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…to have a lawyer present when they speak to law enforcement. This is not a sign of duplicity, but of exercising one’s rights. If one is audited by the IRS, do you go in with a tax attorney or accountant? I would, and not because I have anything to hide, but because they are experts in dealing with these individuals. It is my right as an American citizen, and I hold my rights dearly. The objection to these hearings is Constitutional: you cannot sin…

LGBT “Welcome” Ad Rejected by Sojourners, Nation’s Premier Progressive Christian Org.

By Rev. Robert Chase

…other’s Day to launch its new campaign to invite one million believers to “sign up” for full LGBT equality in our churches and society-at-large. A centerpiece of this effort is a new video with particular relevance to Mother’s Day. The video features that fateful, frightful walk down the church’s center aisle by a visiting family. How many of us can remember such a walk? This family unit, however, happens to include a young boy with two moms. Afte…

Death of a Self-Proclaimed God-Man: Sai Baba’s Controversial Career

By Andrea R. Jain

…argued that his ability to materialize objects was not miraculous but the sign of a skilled conjuring magician. Perhaps the most notable controversy surrounding the guru arose in 1993 when the police killed six young male devotees in Sai Baba’s bedroom and claimed that they did so in self-defense. The case remains controversial because many details of the incident are unknown. Some speculate that the men were not killed in self-defense but were m…

Eddie Long off the Cross in Time for Easter?

By Anthea Butler

…iation is completed during Holy Week, it would be a boon for Long. With no sign of the five smooth stones he was going to throw back in September to defend his name, and the congregation reeling from an investment scandal and layoffs, Long desperately wants to get off the cross of public derision and skepticism. If Long settles out of court avoiding a trial, and obtains confidentiality clauses Long avoids both the scandal of a trial and the “outin…

Catholic Church Targets Proponent of Women’s Ordination; Feminist Theologian

By Mary E. Hunt

…s that it comes at the price of violating the bishops’ own guidelines for “promoting cooperation and resolving misunderstandings between bishops and theologians.” Adopted in 1989, these guidelines were crafted precisely to encourage dialogue and discourage this kind of heavy-handed response to theological work that I would wager most bishops do not understand. Professor Johnson reports that she was neither informed of the investigation of her work…