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Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…ng to save?” Kumrits asked his friend. “Man, he sounded just like we sound today.” But if you ask them what they are, they really don’t know. And they’re fine with that. They don’t know where they will be spiritually in a year, but they don’t seem very much preoccupied by it. Today, their spirituality comes from the Tao Te Ching. They are dedicated to shedding their possessions. Kumrits lives year round in a camper. The two men are constantly chal…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…controversial rogue) to veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin America (a single goatherd saw her in the hills in 1531). The Basilica at Guadalupe is now a site that draws over 10 million visitors per year, making it the second-most visited church in the world after the Vatican. Drawing the Line at Canine Sanctity Of course, the process of recognizing saints, miracles, and apparitions has its own politics. In the Middle Ages the beatifica…

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…to conceive of an organizational culture more allergic to disruption than today’s gender-segregated, regionally- and racially-dominated, hierarchical, and gerontocratic LDS bureaucratic culture. For their part, advocates of LDS women’s ordination are well versed in the dimensions of Mormon history and theology deprioritized by the bureaucratic church, and history may be on their side. Recently released historical records suggest that LDS Church f…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…s just how much the musical’s imagined Africa would in ten years look like today’s very real America. Ugandans in The Book of Mormon are facing an epidemic (in the case of the show it’s AIDS). They bend to superstition and choose sexual assault as a remedy. In the real world, Americans suffering our own pandemic reject scientific reason and resort to eating horse de-wormer. This is the world The Book of Mormon’s curtains open out to in a few weeks…

No Time for Casual Faith: The First Unitarian Woman Elected President on our Urgent Moment

By Peter Laarman

…se 50 years. We are still in the struggle, but we have lost ground. We see today the commodification of nearly every aspect of our lives: commodification in health care, in education, and even commodification within democracy itself, with the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech and that corporations are especially privileged people. As Harvard’s Michael Sandel frames it, we are transitioning from having a capitalist economy to being a capita…

Can the Catholic Church Survive Trump?

By Patricia Miller

…taining a prohibition on public funding of abortions justifies support for today’s Republican Party. But bishops should be wary of such a judgment. Today’s Republican Party is not an appropriate or reliable vehicle for the advancement of Catholic teaching in the medium and long run because of the simple but profound fact that no American political party ever is such a vehicle or ever will be. But the association with Trump leaves a particularly da…

Americans Say Religion is “Losing Influence”

By Diane Winston

…t to them personally still say it would be positive for society if more Americans were religious.” What planet do these Americans live on? Here in the U.S., religious fervor is at the center of a 30-year culture war that has debased civic discourse and rendered our nation ungovernable. Worldwide, religious sentiments have been mobilized to torture and murder. I understand that religion itself is not to blame; followers can distort religious teachi…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…y, fifty years. Nixon is long dead, as is Kennedy. “Negroes” have become African Americans. Radcliffe no longer produces graduates, and it is not quite so newsworthy when students of color graduate from the Ivy League. We remain unsure whether parents can (or should) choose their baby’s sex (even though we also know they do). And we continue to care about Philadelphia’s Barnes Collection. But we know so much more. Fifty years have passed. Women’s…

And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?

By Shaul Magid

…sh” was a liability and anti-semitism was palpable, the number of non-Jews today who identify as Jewish seems historically distinctive. We could, perhaps, point to the so-called “fearers of heaven,” an undocumented community of Hellenes in late antiquity who lived in large Jewish population centers, apparently lived partially as Jews, and had some status in the Jewish community. But today’s non-Jewish Jews aren’t identifying as such because they l…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…leveled against her as an opportunity to present herself as a defender of freedom of speech—in line with her greeting of Fuentes’ AFPAC crowd as “canceled Americans.” In a statement, she not only defended her appearance at AFPAC, claiming not to know about Fuentes’ extremist beliefs, but she also lashed out at the party secure in the understanding that as long as she has the support of the base she isn’t likely to face any serious repercussions:…