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New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l earn them a one way ticket to Satanland. That fear is real, that fear is palpable, and these people are willing to do anything to avoid that fate—even if it means marrying someone from the opposite gender as proof positive of their “change.” That being said, I am a firm believer in the Kinsey scale. I do believe that sexuality runs a continuum and that there are people who are genuinely bisexual. If someone is near the center of that scale, they…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…imed that the separate existence of a historical Celtic Church invalidated papal supremacy in those lands, though he’d no doubt be aghast at how the term is today most often associated with druidical quasi-pagans or fans of Enya. Twentieth-century novelist James Joyce, a critic of colonialism and nationalism who would no doubt be despised by someone like Buchanan, also alluded to the need for a separate, muscular Celtic Christianity as distinct fr…

“Pregnancy is Not a Disease”: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…les! How did we get from Dick-Read’s “It’s all in your head, little lady! [pat, pat]” to a more legitimately feminist call to understand pregnancy and childbirth as normal and healthy physical processes? For that, we shall need to give credit to: Feminist advocacy for women’s health: Many people my age (I’m 34) are surprised to discover that you used to not be able to say “breast cancer,” simply because it was indelicate to utter the word “breast….

Picasso’s Sacred Monster Eats Chicago: A Mystery Solved?

By Jeremy Biles

…lists, including Picasso, were known for engaging mythic imagery, and were particularly intrigued by composite beasts such as the sphinx. Argentine painter Leonor Fini created numerous variations on the Greek sphinx, while Salvador Dalí concocted a veritable menagerie of Egyptian and Greek sphinxes, including one scarlet-furred feline creature bearing the face of Shirley Temple and surrounded by the well-cleaned bones of her victims. Whether in re…

Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy: Choosing Religion Over Sex

By Lynne Gerber

…that time are by no means secure. Since declassification, supporters of reparative and conversion therapy have continually sought recognition by the APA, increasingly on the grounds of tolerance for differing opinions. Reporters aspiring toward fair-mindedness can fall prey to this appeal to tolerance without fully investigating how that rhetoric is strategically used to gain legitimization and advance political aims. Any reporter investigating t…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…erapists. However, even if Spiegel had correctly identified the nature and participants in the debate, she still would not have gotten it quite right. To his credit, Schumacher-Matos does a better job when he reviews material given to him by Spiegel and her editor Anne Gudenkauf. Among other things, Schumacher-Matos read an article by Mimi Swartz and published in the New York Times Magazine about same-sex attracted religious people who accept bein…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…On Saturday, Henderson-Espinoza and Rev. Traci Blackmon were outside Emancipation Park offering prayerful presence and witness when neo-Nazis, fascists, and unhooded Ku Klux Klan members descended on the intersection, unleashing violence that caused the security detail protecting Blackmon and Henderson-Espinoza to literally yank Rev. Blackmon off-camera during a live interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid. (Video from that segment can be found below.) Ju…

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…light from the US Supreme Court, that liberty has been wiped out. Planned Parenthood has dropped that particular lawsuit, but there may be another path forward for advocates of reproductive rights. In her dissenting opinion, Iowa’s Chief Justice Susan Christensen pointed to the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and highlighted a recent Indiana case where the Court of Appeals held that a similar abortion law violated the religio…

The Faith Outreach Canard

By Sarah Posner

…Eleison Group, who the RNS article notes worked doing faith outreach on a number of Democratic campaigns in 2006 and 2008 but not in 2010. In both the RNS interview and in an article on Huffington Post, Sapp argues for a causal link between lackluster faith outreach in this election cycle and Democratic losses; his conclusion: “the results were disastrous.” To support this argument, Sapp claims the following: Compared to ’06, Democrats nationally…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…y unimpressive goal, really), but to continue the process of unfolding Torah, of uniting Heaven and Earth. The great 20th-century theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel suggested that God’s revelation to us is ongoing, and I count feminism, and feminism’s impact on Judaism, as part of that. In other words, the religion we have today and the questions that define it are very much a result of the feminist revolution, and I think Judaism is, as a result,…