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A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…s should the administration stand firm. Some may in fact fervently wish to help the many low-paid women and men on their staff lead happy and healthy sex lives, and to have only the number of children they can feed, clothe, educate, and love. Perhaps I’m a romantic, but I like to think they’re actually hoping that the administration turns down the CHA’s appeal for an exemption from providing that coverage. Conscience Over the Bishop in Phoenix Let…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…e end-of-the-world vision at the heart of the new Republican orthodoxy may help explain a further observation: The people who attend these kinds of religious nationalist gatherings—the activist backbone of the Republican Party—are in no mood to back down from the January 6th attempt to subvert the presidential election through a brutal and disgraceful attack on our Capitol. Sometime around January 7, some parts of the mainstream wisdom coalesced a…

U.S. Bishops’ 15–year Battle For ‘Conscience’ and Against Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…tive. While public health officials hailed this as a major breakthrough to help prevent unplanned pregnancy, the Catholic bishops were among the earliest and most aggressive opponents of emergency contraception. In an attempt to suggest that it would not be licit under Catholic doctrine the bishops drew on specious claims from far-right opponents of contraception that it might act as an abortifacient because it could prevent a fertilized embryo fr…

The Sordid Past of Ralph Reed

By Sarah Posner

…need to start humping in corporate accounts! . . . I’m counting on you to help me with some contacts.” Within months, Abramoff hired him to lobby on behalf of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, who were seeking to prevent competitors from setting up facilities in nearby Alabama. In 1999, Reed e-mailed Abramoff after submitting a bill for $120,000 and warning that he would need as much as $300,000 more: “We are opening the bomb bays and holding not…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…“what does it mean to be human” is core to BSG and Caprica. I still can’t help but wonder though, is being a part Cylon/part human better? Or is pure machine the epitome of creation? Hopefully, Caprica will help to answer some of those questions this season. -AB 1/25/10 Salman Hameed___________________________ The pilot of Caprica brought about the same level of messiness (and a definite promise of more) that made Battlestar Galactica such a…

Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the ‘On-Demand’ God

By Anthea Butler

…three belong. After all, understanding their affiliations and beliefs can help to make sense of the motivations of such disparate figures; to say nothing of the prosperity purveyors like Creflo Dollar, Paula White, and Joel Osteen who share their tradition to some extent. When God is like “on-demand cable”—standing by to provide instant forgiveness and prosperity—it is very hard to convince the most fervent believers to adhere to basic rules of p…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…ates who were up against entrenched interests. What could we do that would help to persuade good candidates to get in, and to prevail against the odds? The answer, we realized, was us. We would create a statewide network of volunteer electoral activists of the sort that can be a decisive factor, particularly in party primaries. Four years later, we played an important role in getting the then almost unknown African American attorney Deval Patrick…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…f fundamentalism are intolerant absolutists. Armstrong hopes her work will help to assuage both the problem of the God who can’t be believed—the one encumbered with reason, transcendence, and literalism—and the problem of the fundamentalist God, which commands a bewildering following. Armstrong suggests that we would all be better off if we would return to Pseudo-D’s model, which, at its core, promotes both humility and unknowing. Throughout The C…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…life easier for polygamists like Brown et ux, it’s unlikely to do much to help Jeffs or his followers. As previously mentioned, the state still has the right to deny multiple marriage licenses, and issues of coercion and consent still come into play when underage girls are wed to older men, as is common on Jeffs’ sect. And as another TLC offering, Breaking the Faith, makes clear, opposition to polygamy or disloyalty to “Uncle Warren” are not alwa…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…at marriage and sexuality should only be between a man and a woman, please help us stop Mitt Romney. As Governor, Romney signed “Gay Youth Pride Day” declarations, promoted homosexuality in our elementary schools, and unconstitutionally ordered state officals to make Massachusetts America’s first same-sex marriage state. Romney supports open homosexuality in the military, the appointment of homosexual judges, and the ENDA law, making it illegal to…