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More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ely vulnerable to the effects of unequal access to healthcare due to race, class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or geography. We support religious freedom. Religious freedom means that each individual has the right to exercise their own beliefs and the right not to have others’ beliefs forced upon them. We believe no employer has the right to deny the women who work for them basic health care. Individuals must have the rig…

Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…yet in this cycle. Should we express sympathy for the plight of the middle class, or should we go full-on supply side? Should we embrace gays and lesbians or smack down Hispanics? You could hear it in the answers, which often started in one direction, only to veer off clumsily in another. The effect was to make the debate seem truly like a prize fight; less the exciting clobbering-time part than the opening rounds where the boxers jab tentatively…

Call Me Pesach

By Peter Manseau

…began studying Yiddish more than a dozen years ago, the other students in class had no problem choosing appropriate names to use during our conversation sessions. David became Dovid; Rebecca became Rivka; Isaac became Itsik. There is no obvious Yiddish equivalent of Peter, so I became Pesach. Once a common Jewish name, it is also the Hebrew word for the holiday that starts later this week. I never admitted why I felt drawn to the name. Not only a…

Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…audience believing that God had a great deal of interest in helping middle-class Americans with their personal problems and conflicts, though He and His messengers seemed to spend little time dealing with war, famine, and social injustice. Feel-good angelmania suddenly appeared everywhere. The hugely popular Ask Your Angels (1992) told its readers that they were surrounded with heavenly helpers interested in providing “empowerment.” “Angel Tarot C…

Fear of Empathy: Senate Republicans Attack Sotomayor

By Laurie Patton

…ibes above. But President Obama in contrast seemed to be putting his first-class education to good use by choosing his words carefully when he spoke of empathy. Unlike the senators, he knew what he was talking about. The quality of justice meted out by anyone on the bench clearly necessitates being able to imagine the situation of all parties involved. Judgments by juries made up of laypeople like myself involving things like “premeditation” or “c…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…the past few decades. Both Pence and Kaine were raised in Midwest, middle-class, observant Irish-Catholic families. Pence started out as a Democrat, voting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, but like many other more conservative-minded Catholics switched alliances to the Republican Party, voting for Ronald Reagan in 1984. The Jesuit-educated Kaine, meanwhile, was attracted to Liberation Theology’s “blending of Catholicism and socialism,” influenced by his…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ld care about diversity in the authors we read. It helps that the seminary classroom at Boston University, where I teach, is probably the most diverse classroom I’ve ever encountered—so there is almost nothing you can say that won’t offend someone. It’s a very difficult place to teach, but mostly it’s fun, and that diversity is a great thing. “THE MOTHERHOOD PENALTY” Laurie Maffly-Kipp: My first suggestion is to stop seeing childbearing as a woman…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…cation system shaped by Thomas Macaulay, whose stated aim was to create “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Thanks in large part to church-funded publications and university scholarship, Christianity also became part of the rhetoric of liberation among low caste populations and regional language groups such as Tamils. This idea of Christianity “liberating” the uncivilize…

Anti-Gay Republican Senator Comes Out as LGBT Ally

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…exuality by church and society really does rob the banks of those whose livelihood depends on keeping LGBT people second class citizens….

Mark O. Hatfield and the Politics of an Earlier Era

By David R. Swartz

…end the war,” he was greeted enthusiastically. One-third of the graduating class, which cheered as the senator walked into the room, wore black bands to signify opposition to the war. Students in a balcony unfurled a banner that read, “Blessed are the peacemakers. We’re with you, Mark.” Hatfield’s speech, entitled “American Democracy and American Evangelicalism—New Perspectives,” returned the favor. Fuller’s mandate, Hatfield said, was to offer a…