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Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…uditorium at the revered Catholic institution, to an audience of about 300 students, faculty, and members of the public, Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan thanked God for homosexuality. Sullivan was speaking at what was billed as a “family” event — as in a discussion among fellow Catholics — co-sponsored by the College Democrats and College Republicans and publicized by the pro-LGBT group Catholics for Equality. With Washington Post columnist and G…

Should Faith Healing ‘Do Business’ with Modern Medicine?

By Beatrice Marovich

…er our skin,” almost like a virus or bacteria. She warns her undergraduate students that, in order to do well in her course, they’ll need to take reports of demonic possession seriously as well. More, she sees these miraculous accounts embedded within medical science itself. The suggestive power of healing—merely through hopeful belief—has long operated, in medicine, under the guise of the “placebo.” It is just one of what she calls the “mollifyin…

Indonesian Volcano Update: Yes, it’s a Religion Story…

By Mark Woodward

…of Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University were favored, because they are cheaper. The reason is that many students at Islamic Universities are from poor rural families. The demand spike was substantial because a single relief shipment often included 500 or more packaged meals. These informal relief efforts were important because they reached people that government and international relief organizations could not find. Thousands of people took re…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…s. Bummer. Hummus sparked a controversy between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students at DePaul University. A federal judge has put a permanent hold on the Oklahoma ballot measure that prohibited Sharia law in state courts. In Saudi Arabia, the Mecca Clock Royal Tower is under construction. When finished it will be the second tallest building in the world. It is also located right next to the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site. And there is now a video gam…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Finally Settles Suit

By Lauri Lebo

…s report that said that Freshwater had been using class time to witness to students, teaching intelligent design and displaying numerous Christian materials around the classroom for more than a decade. The district settled with the family in July 2009, but the settlement with Freshwater had dragged on, due to Freshwater and his attorney’s obfuscation and refusal to produce evidence. I’ve written about this case numerous times, most recently, here,…

Hajj Journal: Part of the Process

By Amina Wadud

…ny, then, like hijabi and niqabi girls trying to be less nerdy (stereotype number one) and go off to an important college sports event (stereotype two) in search of a place to pray at halftime which they were reasonably confident was not wet with vomit, pee, or the rain. No, it really did have some funny parts. But it was just that all the college girls were too squeaky-clean—all advanced-placement honor students from middle class suburban familie…

Glenn Beck’s ‘Social Justice’ Heresies

By Sarah Posner

…way, and sometimes you have to adjust the teaching to the knowledge of the students, and so he provides some good basic education, but it’s also good to go a little deeper.” That was a charitable way of characterizing Beck’s ahistoricism—and his audience. But Olasky isn’t alone among conservatives in worrying that Beck might be misapprehending and possibly undermining their mission. As other conservatives warned at the Freedom Federation Summit, w…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

Bill Gothard is intent on defending himself. He’s speaking with me by telephone from the Northwoods Conference Center in Watersmeet, Michigan, where he spends every January “for study and writing and reflecting and fasting.” The controversial 76-year-old evangelist wants to explain away the “distortions” of his critics, and why, he insists, that widely-discussed “Taliban Dan” ad had it all wrong. In the ad (run last fall by congressional candidat…

Catholic Prof Teaches that Same-Sex Marriage is Violation of ‘Natural Law’

By Mary E. Hunt

…when crafting the deal, but it is something to be investigated. Does this mean that if Dr. Howell had not been reported by a student for teaching the party line without any reference to other Catholic positions that the State of Illinois would have been happy to grant credits to students of a professor whose wages were underwritten by the religious institution he was promoting? Maybe at University of Notre Dame or Loyola, Dr. Hewitt. But at a sta…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…conservative politics of the college but also the personal politics of its students, such as the young fundamentalist women who must choose between the ankle-length “prairie skirts” they consider appropriate for Christian women and the more modern dress that will allow them to more effectively champion their causes in the halls of power. Frank’s calm, respectful, portraits reveal that dilemma without words, such as this photograph of a young woman…