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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: The Disgusting Religious Defense of Roy Moore

By Daniel Schultz

…g the nasty, so to speak, was only one element of virginity in the ancient world. As Elizabeth Johnson argues in Truly Our Sister, virgins weren’t so much people who avoided the contamination of sexuality as those who gave up their desire in order to maintain a single-minded focus on serving God. It’s only later, as the monastic emphasis on rigorous purity sets in, that virgins became those who have never taken part in vaginal intercourse. Even so…

Progressive & Religious

By Robert P. Jones

…, find encouragement in these pages and add their voices to the growing chorus. Finally, I hope these new voices will contribute to a healthier public square and a more vibrant, pluralistic democracy in America. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? If there are two groups I’m taking aim at, it’s the Christian Right that has distorted religion into a partisan agenda on the one hand and the raft of neo-atheis…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…vestment, ideological hostilities, and social marginalization. And as was true in New Orleans during Katrina, where those left behind were almost completely devoid of institutional support on which to lean, the urban poor in various contexts have suffered from what has also been a scarcity of institutional supports—including churches. The social storms that have ravaged vulnerable urban contexts have also impacted church life. In neighborhoods whe…

Ron Paul’s New Place in the GOP

By Julie Ingersoll

…ll his years of being the proverbial “voice in the wilderness,” Ron Paul’s world is about to change. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 74% of Americans strongly favor a plan to audit the Federal Reserve, something Paul has advocated for years. He plans to push such a plan as the new chair of the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee that oversees the Fed and its monetary policy. Reportedly Republican leaders had planned to put someone else in…

Make Aeronautic Jobs, Not Jihad

By Haroon Moghul

…d, not angry but eager, not oppositional but contributory. So I picked two news stories that should bring a smile to an economy desperate for good news. Boeing, the US’s largest airplane manufacturer, has won two jumbo deals involving the Muslim world. Both will help them compete with European Airbus while sustaining or creating thousands of American jobs—up to an estimated 127,000. That’s Muslim money buying American goods, creating American jobs…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…sofar as you have the power to determine what is truth.” Such is the post-truth world, the world of alt-facts. Many technological and social changes have led to the possibility of this situation, from the rise of the 24-hour news cycle and the collapse of the newspaper industry, to the blurring of news and entertainment. As Emily Nussbaum observed in a remarkable article, “all news-like items feel fungible.” In addition to enabling burgeoning publ…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…g, he wrote: “Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America—not in China or North Korea. In those countries, government presumes daily to ‘redefine’ rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what the very definition of ‘family’ and ‘marriage’ means.” Is Dolan really suggesting that if t…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…n’t make the news. The episodes of mass peaceful protest within the Muslim world for the most part have not made the news, with the exception of what’s happened over the past six or eight months. Do you think the Arab Spring is changing this negative perception of Islam? Now, if you talk to an average or semi-well informed American, you don’t have to explain yourself when you talk about mass nonviolent movements in the Middle East, because they…

New Poll Shows Strong Catholic Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ics leaning against full marriage equality, the report still contains good news for gays and lesbians. An overwhelming majority of Catholics (69 percent) believe that sexual orientation is fixed and cannot be changed by “ex-gay” therapies. When asked if sexual activity between people of the same sex is sinful, 56 percent said no. That compares to 46 percent of the general population. Dr. Michele Dillon, professor and chair of Department of Sociolo…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…hoice community. There a bill to ban sex-selection abortion circulating in New York, and Georgia Right to Life is trying to gather support for similar legislation. Live Action even addresses the issue in a February blog post quoting a Canadian Medical Association Journal interim editor who called the abortion of “female babies” “discrimination against women in its most extreme form.” There is no real evidence given in the PRENDA hearing to support…